Tabitha Morton (Chair)

Tabitha is the Executive Director of UN Women UK, whose mission is to ensure every woman and girl has access to safety, choice and a voice. UN Women is the only global organisation working to make gender equality a reality in every way: from grassroots programmes with the most vulnerable women and girls to changing attitudes, and helping governments design gender-equal policy.

Previously, Tabitha led the team at a cross-party campaigning organisation bringing MPs together on issues such as climate crisis, reforming health and social care and mental health systems. As Deputy Leader of The Women’s Equality Party, she has worked to make ending violence against women and girls a political priority for all parties. Before getting into politics and campaigning she spent 15 years in the construction and manufacturing industry and was the first woman to be on the UK board of her organisation.

Patricia Price (Treasurer)

Patricia Price is a Cipfa qualified accountant. Patricia has worked in local government finance for over thirty-five years and has held various senior positions including twenty years as Assistant Director of Finance. Patricia has been responsible for Accountancy, Capital Finance, Internal Audit, Treasury Management, and Annual accounts. Patricia also has extensive experience in budget setting and budget monitoring and working within the local government finance system. As part of these responsibilities, Patricia has many years of experience in managing various groups of staff ranging from four to fifty people. Patricia has experience in all the main managerial processes of recruitment, target setting, appraisals, performance monitoring, sickness monitoring, and conducting disciplinary hearings.

Patricia has also approximately ten years of experience in collating, monitoring and reporting performance indicators in local government. This experience is directly relevant to the Trustee Board in relation to Finance, HR and performance management. In addition, Patricia has been a school governor for eighteen years. Patricia has held various roles such as Vice-chair of the governing body and Chair of Finance. Patricia has also been the treasurer of a scout group for eleven years.

Carleen Clifford

Carlene joined AXA as Senior Lead of Group Inclusion and Diversity in 2019 and supports the Group’s ongoing commitment to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive global workplace with a key focus on gender equality and gender-based domestic violence, abuse, and harassment. She played a key role in the development of a new global health and wellbeing programme, ‘We Care’, that aims to support employees at different life stages including those who are impacted by domestic and sexual violence.

Carlene has 20 years’ experience a complex, international, and multicultural insurance industry with 17 years living and working outside the UK in the Asia Pacific and European regions. Before joining AXA, she held leadership roles in Distribution, Claims Relationship Management and Legal at AIG Asia Pacific, as well as holding the position of Associate solicitor at Barlow Lyde and Gilbert LLP. Carlene has an LLB in Law and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator.

In her personal time, Carlene volunteers as a conversation partner to support the ongoing education of a young woman living in Afghanistan and loves to travel.

Fraser Holmes-Mackay

Fraser is Associate Head of Philanthropy for the University of Warwick and has experience working with and advising individuals, foundations and corporates to achieve genuine and sustainable impact through transformational philanthropy.  Previously, Fraser spent five years at Goldman Sachs, latterly in the Private Wealth and Family Office team. 

He is a Founding Member of the 93% Club Professionals and was formerly an Ambassador for Launch With GS, Goldman Sachs’ commitment to investing $1 billion in female, black and minority-led businesses.  Fraser has a particular interest in championing pioneering organisations that solely exist to reduce systemic and societal inequalities relating to social-mobility and gender.

Fraser gained a first class integrated Masters degree in Mathematics whilst studying at the University of East Anglia and the University of California, Berkeley.  Fraser is also a qualified Taxation Technician, an ICAEW Business Finance Professional, and has been awarded the CFA Investment Management Diploma (ESG).  

Amanda Whiteside

Amanda brings over 15 years of experience driving transformative initiatives for global organisations. As the Global Vice President of Revenue Enablement at Freshworks, Amanda leads high-impact teams to deliver customer-centric solutions and measurable growth. Her expertise spans creating scalable, customer-obsessed commercial strategies across both Enterprise and SMB organisations.

Previously, Amanda held executive roles at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, where she led global teams to optimise customer success, operations, and spending for multi-billion-dollar cloud services businesses. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, Amanda also served as Chairperson of Diversity Role Models, a UK charity dedicated to fostering empathy and inclusion in future generations.

Driven by a deep commitment to building and scaling nonprofits, Amanda is passionate about empowering underrepresented communities to reach their full potential. She leverages her leadership and operational expertise to drive transformative change, creating lasting impact in the lives of those who need it most. Amanda is dedicated to fostering inclusive environments where every individual has the opportunity to thrive and contribute meaningfully to society.