ACF trustees

Karen Everett, chair

Karen is the CEO for the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (SFCT), a collection of 20 independent grant-making trusts and charities established by members of three generations of the Sainsbury family. Prior to joining SFCT, Karen worked across a variety of sectors, from charities and universities to major corporates and pension funds. Karen has also held numerous non-executive roles throughout her career, ranging from founding trustee/director of a small youth theatre charity to chair of governors at one of the largest sixth form colleges in the country. Her experience also includes a variety of other trustee/director and committee positions.

Síofra Healy, vice-chair

Síofra is an experienced philanthropy advisor, senior leader and trustee with a career spanning 30 years across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Head of individual and corporate philanthropy at Queen’s University Belfast, Siofra was previously director of philanthropy and communications at the Community Foundation Northern Ireland, where she led on philanthropy services and development for a range of local and national funders in Northern Ireland. Síofra has worked across a number of issues with communities including homelessness, youth, education and health. A board member of Bryson Care, a large social enterprise in NI, Síofra’s passion is connecting people to causes that matter and she enjoys walking and spending time with family and friends in her spare time.

Moray McConnachie, chair of the finance and risk committee

Moray was until recently the chief operating officer at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation, where he led on finance, systems, grants processing, governance/legal and admin/facilities functions. He started his career in IT before moving to operations management in the private sector and has held a variety of senior IT and management roles, both client-facing and internal. Moray is passionate about bringing people, processes and systems together to support the delivery of impact.

Sufina Ahmad MBE

Sufina is director of John Ellerman Foundation. She previously worked in corporate strategy and performance at the City of London Corporation. She has also worked for the National Lottery Community Fund and City Bridge Foundation in grant-making, strategy and policy roles. She is a grants committee member for Youth Futures Foundation and an honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, having chaired their expert panel on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Sufina was awarded an MBE for charitable services in 2020 and finished an Executive MBA programme with a specialism in Strategic Leadership in 2022. Sufina is also a trustee for We Belong and The Charterhouse.

Hannan Ali DL

Hannan graduated from the University of Greenwich studying business management in 2014 and has since gained 10+ years of social impact experience across development, grant-making, and community ventures. He is currently a funding manager at City Bridge Foundation - a 900-year-old bridge-owning charity - working on various place-based and strategic programmes. He was previously a grants manager at the Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation, where he worked on participatory initiatives, donor-advised funds, and national programmes. Hannan serves in various voluntary positions with organisations such as The Ironmongers Company, National Emergencies Trust and Step Forward Luton. In 2024, he was recognised for his local service and appointed deputy lieutenant to HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire and given the Rising Star Runner-Up Award by the City of London Corporation.

Rahima Aziz

Rahima has been a trustee at the Aziz Foundation since 2020. As the youngest and only female member of the Aziz Foundation board, she brings the vigour and priorities of her generation. As well as acting as the public face of the foundation, representing its work for stakeholders and community organisations, Rahima has actively expanded the vision and scope of the foundation by immersing herself into the day-to-day work. Rahima has an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in psychology, from KCL and UCL respectively, and is currently working in psychiatric healthcare. In 2023, she was awarded a BEM in the King’s Birthday Honours list for her services to young people.

Sarah Benioff
Sarah joined the Cripplegate Foundation and Islington Giving as director in September 2019. Cripplegate Foundation is a 500-year-old local grant making trust in Islington, and Islington Giving is a coalition of local, regional and national funders, residents, businesses and voluntary organisations focused on poverty and inequality in the Borough. Prior to this, Sarah worked for the National Lottery Community Fund from 2016 to 2019, as England director and previously as deputy director for strategic programmes. Sarah was also a director in the civil service for over ten years, holding senior positions with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and the Office for Civil Society (OCS) in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). She was also formerly the chief executive of the Community Development Foundation, a non-departmental public body and charity.

Rachel Campbell

Rachel has been working within the Scottish charity sector since 2009. She is the director of the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust, an endowed trust which gives grants to charities operating in Scotland working across several funding themes. Through values-led leadership, Rachel seeks to offer creative and effective grant making which supports charities to bring forward best practice and to deliver on their ambitions to make a difference.

Emily Crawford 

Emily has worked with and for the charitable sector for several years, although she has recently taken up a new role as operations manager of Hackney Money Hub at London Borough of Hackney. She is an experienced impact strategist and business improvement specialist, passionate about working with social purpose organisations to support them to maximise their impact on positive social change. Until recently, she was head of innovation and impact at Glasspool Charity Trust, and past consultancy clients include Southern Housing, Versus Arthritis, Bromley By Bow Centre and Quaker Social Action. 

Rosario Guimba-Stewart 

Rosario is originally from the Philippines and came to the UK in 1995. She has worked all her life in the non-profit/charity sector, in a range of roles including community organising, training, organisational consultancy, project management, fundraising, and business development. Before taking up her current post as director of the London Catalyst, she was the CEO of Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network (LRMN) for nearly 14 years. She completed an MSc in voluntary sector organisation at the London School of Economics, has a postgraduate certificate in business administration from The Open University, a Prince2 Foundation qualification, and a diploma in community organising from the University of the Philippines. Rosario is a trained action learning facilitator and is currently volunteering as a mentor/coach for Pilotlight and Cranfield Trust. She is a keen swimmer, Lindy Hop dancer, yoga practitioner, jewellery maker, scuba diver and surfer! 

John Hollingsworth

John currently serves as chief philanthropy officer and deputy CEO at the Community Foundation North East. As a native of Tyneside, John started his career in Edinburgh, where he served in various posts with the National Trust for Scotland, the NHS, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group. These roles spanned corporate communications, marketing, community investment, and philanthropy. Prior to joining the foundation in 2022, John spent ten years in the United States, where he held leadership positions with charities serving communities in Detroit and across the state of Michigan. He has also supported numerous charities in a consulting capacity.

Daniela Lloyd-Williams

Daniela has been working in the charitable sector since 2005, focusing on international development. Prior to that she worked for the UN. She is the director of JAC Trust, a small family foundation that funds communities at the frontline of climate change, specifically forcibly displaced people and the communities that host them. Daniela is a trustee of the Samworth Foundation, who focus on climate change and child exploitation, a former convenor of ACF’s smaller funders network and has been governor of a primary school. A life-long learner, Daniela completed an MSc in grantmaking and philanthropy at Bayes Business School in 2020; she also has a PhD in agricultural economics.

Joe Saxton

Joe Saxton has a portfolio of roles: consultant, researcher, trustee, writer, wilder, and blogger. Joe is chair of the Association of Chairs, the umbrella body for charity board leaders, and a trustee of the farmers’ benevolent fund RABI. He runs his own website with insights for non-profits, heyheyjoe.info. Joe was founder and driver of ideas at nfpSynergy, a research consultancy for charities, until he sold the business to two colleagues in November 2021. He has been the chair of six different charities and founded two. He was chair of the Institute of Fundraising for three years, and co-founder and chair of CharityComms for seven years. He was chair of Parentkind, the umbrella body for PTAs. He also sits on the board of two small grant-makers. Joe has worked with over 200 charities in total.

Anand Shukla

Anand is chief executive of the Henry Smith Foundation, one of the UK’s largest grant giving foundations. He has been a volunteer for over 30 years, and has worked in the social impact sector for the last 20 years. His extensive leadership experience at executive and non-executive level spans the civil society, public and higher education sectors, and Anand is currently a member of the governing body at Coventry University. Prior to his role as chief executive of Brightside between 2015 and 2020 – a mentoring charity that works with 10,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds every year - he led Daycare Trust and Family and Childcare Trust (now Coram Family and Childcare). Previous non-executive and trustee roles include serving on the board of Social Investment Business, and being the chair of governors at his children’s primary school in South London. Anand is a Clore Social Leadership Fellow.

Louise Winterburn

Louise Winterburn is deputy CEO of World Habitat, an international foundation working to ensure everyone has a safe, secure, and affordable home. With over 20 years’ experience across charities, social enterprises and government, she specialises in community-led solutions. She is co-convener of ACF’s housing and homelessness network and a trustee of the Longleigh Foundation.