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Sufina Ahmad
Grants & Evaluation Committee Member Committee member
Joel Buchanan
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Steph Taylor
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Robert Welch
Audit, Finance & Risk Committee Member Committee member
Peter Wells
Grants & Evaluation Committee Member
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Sufina is Director of John Ellerman Foundation, an endowed grantmaker aiming to advance wellbeing for people, society and the natural world, through its grantmaking, investing and operations. She has a background in strategy, impact, policy, grantmaking and adult social care. She has an Executive MBA with a Strategic Leadership specialism.

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Sufina is a member of our Grants & Evaluation Committee.

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Joel Buchanan is a multi-award-winning social entrepreneur and the Chief Executive of Quintessentially Foundation. Before joining Quintessentially Foundation, Joel spent a decade in his previous role as Founder and CEO of Tutors United, a social enterprise which hires, trains, and pays university students to tutor primary school pupils. Joel scaled the organisation across 7 cities to hire 650 university students and tutor over 4,000 pupils. Joel is currently a trustee of The Rank Foundation and a non-executive Director of Pathway Fund. Joel is a former trustee of the multi-national charity School for Social Entrepreneurs and a former Non-Executive Director of Youth Futures Foundation.

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Joel is a member of our Grants & Evaluation Committee.

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Steph is Chief Executive of Leeds Community Foundation and GiveBradford and was previously responsible for raising and distributing over £20million a year at Charities Aid Foundation alongside leading its strategic advisory function for government, companies, and major donors. Steph has established, led, and worked in partnership with numerous grassroots and national charities over the years and began her career in Yorkshire as a youth worker giving careers advice to young people excluded from school. Steph is both an RSA and Windsor Leadership Fellow, has an MBA, and is a trustee of the Leeds Rhinos Foundation.

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Steph is a member of our Grants & Evaluation Committee.

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Robert Welch is Group Company Secretary of Monzo. He has over 20 years’ experience in leadership roles across a variety of public companies, was Securities Champion of the Dormant Assets Scheme and brings to Youth Futures a wealth of experience in governance, risk management, remuneration and compliance.   

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Robert is a member of our Audit, Finance & Risk Committee.

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Peter Wells is Professor of Public Policy Analysis at Sheffield Hallam University. He led the evaluation of the National Lottery Community Fund’s Talent Match programme. He has authored over 100 publications, many on the evaluation of public policies. He is the co-director of the ESRC funded Collaborative Centre for Community Connectedness.”

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Peter is a member of our Grants & Evaluation Committee.