together, we make a bigger difference
together, we make a bigger difference
Paul joined LandAid in 2015 having worked in a wide range of charities and not for profit organisations over a 25 year period. He works with our Board of Trustees to ensure LandAid has a clear strategy and is equipped to deliver that strategy. He leads a small leadership team, who in turn lead our larger - but still small - and outstanding team. He brings a passionate determination to do everything we can to end youth homelessness across the UK, a commitment to making LandAid a great partner to work with, and a great employer to work for. He is always impressed by the best that the property industry can achieve, and sees huge potential in its companies and staff working together to achieve social change.
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Alice brings a wealth of CSR & ESG knowledge and leadership to LandAid, and has used this to develop our Partnerships programme and raise our income significantly. Alice works closely with Paul and our Board to ensure that LandAid Partnerships and Events strategy is robust and forward thinking. She has a track record of building long-term, mutually beneficial, strategic relationships with our partners and works closely with our partners to align their CSR strategies to LandAid’s mission.
She joined us from Coram, the children’s charity where she was Head of Corporate Partnerships for five years and led the team to success. During that time, she tripled the corporate income, developing creative CSR projects to maximise impact for vulnerable children. In addition to this, she managed the partnership with Club Peloton, helping to raise £1million from the property sector through combining cycling and networking.
alice.lamb@landaid.org
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Emily leads the Communications & Engagement Team at LandAid. She provides direction and expertise on all of our communications, works with the whole team to ensure that our partners and supporters are engaged with our cause and works to raise the profile of LandAid across the property and construction industry. Emily brings a huge amount of passion and knowledge to the role and has over seven years’ experience working in housing and homelessness. She is always looking at ways to improve our supporter journey and bringing our supporters closer to our cause to ensure that we have the greatest impact in raising funds to support projects working with vulnerable young people.
She joined the team from The Connection at St Martin’s, one of the leading homelessness charities in the UK, where she was the PR and Marketing Lead. Before this she worked at the national drug and alcohol charity Phoenix Futures.
Please contact Emily with any press or PR queries or if you would like to know more about youth homelessness in the UK.
emily.hamilton@landaid.org
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Marisa is our Head of Finance. She works with the Finance and Audit Committee to ensure that LandAid’s finance processes remain robust, efficient and transparent. Every quarter, it is Marisa who enables our Grants Team to award life-changing Grants to our charity partners. She guides the rest of the LandAid team to ensure that our income is coded correctly, and finance processes are followed. Marisa is a member of LandAid’s Leadership Team and manages our Finance Assistant.
Before working for LandAid, Marisa was Finance Manager for Muscular Dystrophy UK for seven years.
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Sean is our Head Of Programmes & Impact. After twelve years of working at the Big Lottery Fund in a number of managerial roles, Sean is now excited to lead on the development of LandAid’s grant-making and professional advice service. He’s keen to work collaboratively to explore innovative ways of demonstrating LandAid’s considerable impact.
At the Big Lottery Fund, Sean headed up the delivery of the Local Sustainability Fund and was drawn to the difference that meaningful professional advice can make within the voluntary sector. For a while, he headed up the Fund’s homelessness policy work and was struck by the opportunities to solve a social travesty such as this.
As a trustee at the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation, he helped to oversee a transition towards a new form of grant-making. He then developed his volunteering and trustee experience when helping to design and deliver the grant programme of the Children’s Health Fund.
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Paul heads up the Events Team and is responsible for the LandAid 10K and the Sleepout for LandAid, as well as supporting the team with our other events Steptober and the Ambassador Challenge. The Events Team also supports our many partners with their fundraising events, by making sure they have the materials and resources needed to be a success.
Previously, Paul has worked in fundraising at Loughborough Students Union, St Mungo’s and the British Lung Foundation.
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Michael manages LandAid’s corporate partnerships function, strengthening and maximising engagement from LandAid’s fantastic network of property industry partners. Michael arrives having secured and managed high value corporate partnerships for Coram, the children’s charity, including a partnership with Coutts, which delivered over £325,000 of income in its first year.
At Coram, Michael was a passionate advocate of their homeless outreach work, which solved the urgent housing needs of care leavers, and is hugely excited about helping LandAid, and its network of partners to end youth homelessness in the UK. Michael was born and raised in Manchester, and will also be co-ordinating the LandAid NorthWest Board to build the charity’s presence in the region.
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Marné manages LandAid’s professional property advice programme alongside her work on grants and social impact projects. LandAid’s property advice programme saved charities over £250,000 in professional fees last year, enabling them to spend their resources on helping those who need it most. Marné puts her own corporate project and consultancy experience to good use by working with charities to identify which professional skills they require. She is particularly interested in social impact, social finance, and monitoring and evaluation.
Please contact Marné to learn more about how your charity can receive free property advice, or how your company can pledge their skills.
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Andrew work with the Corporate Partnerships team and focusses on delivering high quality account management to our existing partners and securing support from new businesses in order to help us in our mission of ending youth homelessness.
In both Andrew’s professional and voluntary career, he has worked to provide young people with excellent services and equal opportunities. He joins us most recently from vInspired, a youth volunteering charity, and before that NCS The Challenge where he worked with students to help facilitate positive impacts within their community
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Tom manages LandAid’s digital channels including our website, social media and email communications. He works closely with the Grants team to ensure that all of our projects are communicated on our website. He also works on the LandAid Midlands 10K.
Prior to joining LandAid, Tom worked as a digital content producer for UniPaper, a student-focused entertainment and news site. He oversaw their social channels and website content, increasing their online profile and engagement.
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Fiona looks after all of LandAid’s active Grants and those within their five year monitoring period and manages the day to day relationship with supported charities.
Prior to LandAid, she worked for Shelter Scotland as a successful Trust Fundraiser. Fiona holds a degree in French and Communication Studies and has also worked as a translator for several large international companies.
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Catriona is responsible for Steptober and supports on a variety of LandAid’s flagship events throughout year. She also supports our regional partners in delivering fundraising events on LandAid’s behalf, and works with the Corporate Partnerships team on developing events for our wonderful Ambassadors. Prior to joining LandAid Catriona worked as Corporate and Events Officer at Chance to Shine, and has previously worked as part of the fundraising teams at London Music Masters and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Please contact Catriona if you would like to arrange an event in support of LandAid or find out more about Steptober.
catriona.mccormick@landaid.org
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Sabina is our Corporate Partnerships Officer. She provides top class account management to some of our key corporate supporters and leads on our Ambassador Programme. Prior to working for LandAid, Sabina worked at leading media agency Kantar Media specialising in B2B client relations. Having previously worked within European Voluntary Service where she looked after long-term EU funded programmes and co-founded a Contemporary Art Festival in Krakow, Sabina is interested in making people’s lives happier through art and participation. She’s also invested in mental health and wellbeing. Sabina is from Poland and is still amazed by London and its people.
sabina.mistura@landaid.org
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Freya holds together the LandAid Office by providing administrative, financial and logistical support to the whole team. In the Events team, she provides support for all events, processing registrations and payments and ensuring that they have everything they need to deliver LandAid’s flagship events. Freya also supports Paul, our Chief Executive, by providing PA support.
Prior to joining LandAid, Freya worked in the renewable energy sector and, while she was a student, organised events as President of her University WaterAid society.
Please contact Freya for general event enquiries or if you need LandAid to send fundraising buckets, banners or flyers to support your upcoming event.
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Jawad is our FInance Assistant. He’s part of the finance team and works closely with the Head of Finance to ensure LandAid’s finances remain transparent and robust.
Prior to joining LandAid, he graduated from University of Greenwich by obtaining a degree in Mathematics. During his time in education he played an active role in numerous projects to support his local community.
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