H&F GIVING - Key Persons
Andy Slaughter has been MP for Hammersmith since 2010 and before that was MP for Ealing, Acton & Shepherds Bush (2005-10) and Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council (1996-2005). He is currently a candidate in the General Election and therefore not an MP. He has been the patron of a number of local charities including the Upper Room in Shepherds Bush and is a governor of William Morris Sixth Form in Fulham and trustee of the Hammersmith Law Centre.
He joined H&F Giving as a Patron in July 2019.
Chris spent most of his working life teaching chemistry and physics in Hammersmith before retiring as the Assistant Head of Latymer Upper. He was the Latymer Foundation trustee on the Hammersmith United Charities for over 12 years and most of that time was spent as the Chair of the Grants Committee where the dormant "relief in need" was converted to the ambitious grant awarding body it has become today, helping to reduce poverty and deprivation in the north of the borough.
He is currently the national Chair of the Association of Members of Independent Monitoring Boards which has in its membership approximately a quarter of all the current members of prison monitoring boards in England and Wales, Vice Chair of the Sulgrave Youth Club and a trustee of the Sulgrave Trust.
Job Titles:
- Head of Latymer Upper School
- Patron
David Goodhew has been Head of Latymer Upper School since 2012 and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Born in West London, David attended a local comprehensive school and was the first member of his family to do A levels or go to university. He graduated from Oxford with a First in Classics.
David is committed to advancing social mobility through his School's bursary programme, in conjunction with its partnership and outreach work. In 2017 he launched the Inspiring Minds campaign, with the aim of raising £40m to offer 1 in 4 pupils a means-tested bursary by 2024 - the Latymer Foundation's 400th anniversary.
In 2018, Latymer won 3 TES Awards, including ‘Independent School of the Year'; David was also a finalist in the ‘social mobility champion' category of the UK Social Mobility Awards.
He joined H&F Giving as a Patron in July 2019.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Project Manager
- Trustee
Elise is a consultant and project manager in the classical musical industry. She has over 10 years of experience in artist management, spanning a 20 year career in the arts, music and entertainment businesses.
She combines her interests in culture and the arts and a desire to assist her immediate and wider community. As well as spearheading her own voluntary initiatives, Elise is on the Development Committee for Clean Break and is a Board Director at Leeds Conservatoire.
Elise grew up in Kensington and Chelsea. Having attended school in Hammersmith & Fulham and now being resident of the borough, she is passionate about supporting the local population.
Helen has almost a decade's experience of coordinating and managing funding programmes. As a grants manager for Community Foundation Wales, Helen worked on a range of investments from education and hardship grants for individuals, to multi-year large grants awarded to organisations from Comic Relief and Big Lottery Fund programmes. More recently, as Third Sector Development Officer, her experience has been in the management of public sector grant programmes, overseeing the £2.3million Corporate Services funding for voluntary organisations for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Currently Helen is the Grants Manager for a small consultancy organisation that manages grants on behalf of the Mayor of London and Central Government. This organisation also specialises in consultancy projects which evaluate the social benefit of various different funding initiatives and programmes of support. As part of this consultancy work she is part of the project team for London's Giving, looking to develop a framework and tools to support Place-based schemes across London measure their individual and collective impact on behalf of London Funders.
Helen has been a resident of Hammersmith and Fulham since moving to London three years ago and is a Trustee for Dr Edwards and Bishop King's Fulham Charity. She regularly volunteers for various good causes throughout the borough through her involvement in GoodGym Hammersmith & Fulham and is a lead resident for her neighbourhood on the H&F social network NextDoor.
Hugo Sintes has over 20 years of experience setting up and managing programmes in the charity sector in the UK, but also in Latin America and Africa. He has worked for organisations such as Oxfam, Southern Housing, Big Society Capital and The Big Issue Group. His main areas of expertise are around social housing, employment, social enterprise and corporate partnerships.
Hugo grew up in Spain, and has lived in the Hammersmith for 15 years. He has been a Trustee to Hammersmith United Charities since 2021, and joined H&F Giving as a Trustee and Treasurer in 2023. He also chairs our Development Committee.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of Trustees
- Retired Solicitor
Joanna Kennedy is a retired solicitor. After leaving her legal practice she developed and ran a London based advice and campaigning charity called Z2K . In that role she was responsible for all aspects of management and leadership including financial management and fundraising, volunteer management, casework management and campaigning .
Since she has retired from any employment role she has obtained a CELTA qualification to enable her to teach English as a foreign language to refugees which she is currently doing through West London Welcome.
Joanna has sat on and chaired numerous charity Boards in both the theatre world and the advice sector. Her main current roles of this kind are as Chair of the National Youth Arts Trust which works to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into the performing arts, as a trustee of Advice UK, the national umbrella body for advice agencies. and locally as Trustee of both the Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre and the QPR Community Trust.
She is passionate about improving the lives and the life chances of her neighbours in Hammersmith & Fulham.
Julian has lived in Hammersmith since 1978 and was a local councillor for 4 years. I identify closely with the area and have been a school governor at several schools and a trustee for several local charities over the years. My children went to school locally and some of my grandchildren are at Wendell Park School. Hammersmith is my home.
Lord (Alf) Dubs was one of the Czech children rescued from the Nazis in the Kindertransport. He has since been a keen campaigner on the plight of refugees: in 2006 he co-published a paper promoting humane alternatives to detention of asylum-seekers, especially children. In spring 2016 he tabled an amendment to the government's immigration bill in the Lords, which would have forced the government to accept 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees stranded in Europe.
He joined H&F Giving as a Patron in September 2019.
Lord (David) Willetts is a life peer, and academic. He is President of the Resolution Foundation. He served as the Member of Parliament for Havant (1992-2015), as Minister for Universities and Science (2010-2014) and previously worked at HM Treasury and the No. 10 Policy Unit. His book The Pinch is about uniting the generations.
He joined H&F Giving as a Patron in August 2019.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director ( Interim )
Coming from years of experience in a veterinary background, Sophie is new to the voluntary sector. Having grown up in North London, she has witnessed the many struggles that the city has faced. She is passionate about the people of London and committed to supporting the borough of Hammersmith & Fulham through the work of H&F Giving.
Sue was brought up in the Borough and as a child lived in West Kensington moving to Fulham when she married 45 years ago. She was educated at Captain Marryat Primary School, Fulham County School for Girls and the City of Westminster College.
She worked in local government for the London County Council, Greater London Council and for 15 years before retirement at Hammersmith and Fulham Council. She has in the past served as a Councillor and School Governor. She also served as a Magistrate for 33 years. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Trustees of Fulham Good Neighbour Service, with which she has been associated since 1979. She is also Vice-Chair of the Trustees of Dr Edwards & Bishop King's Fulham Charity, Chair of its Governance Committee and member of its Relief in Need Committee.
Sue is strongly committed to supporting the voluntary sector in the borough and sees the creation of H&F Giving as a positive move to support this vital sector of our community.
Vivienne has lived in Hammersmith for 35 years. Now retired, she was previously a Director of Specialist Social Services in a central London borough, Chaired Hammersmith and Fulham Mind and Yarrow Housing, was the Councillor for Fulham Reach ward, and Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care.