Johanna Tompsett
Associate Clerk to Trustees
Johanna is a former Director of The Trust Partnership, now working as an Associate Clerk for the Ashley Family Foundation. Having begun her career in fundraising, she has an excellent understanding of both sides of the grant-making process.
She is also a Grants Manager for a London-based grant-maker as well as Co-convenor of the Association of Charitable Foundation’s Small Funders’ Network, and governance support to other charitable organisations.
In addition, Johanna is Chair of the UK Online Giving Foundation and serves on the board of a local human rights organisation.
Kate Danielson
Associate Clerk to Trustees
Founder of Kate Danielson Associates, Kate has worked in the charitable/NFP sector for over 30 years. She has worked with the arts funders, Jerwood Foundation and Jerwood Arts, for 12 years, founding the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme with the charity in 2010 and as the programme director since the start. She has acted as special projects consultant with Garfield Weston Foundation since 2017, including running a programme of events and awards to mark their 60th anniversary in the year they reached their £1billionth grant. She has been on the Board of two grant-giving trusts, including the BBC Performing Arts Fund.
Kate has been a producer in the arts and social sectors since the start of her career and has a long track record of creating financial stability in organisations, as a consultant and as a trustee. She co-founded social-impact charity, GUST, in Gloucester to do similar work in her local city. On behalf of The Trust Partnership, Kate acts as Clerk for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust and for two of the Weston family charities: the Reta Lila Howard Foundation and the Reta Lila Weston Trust for Medical Research.
Heidi Yorke
Associate Grants Assessor
Heidi has worked in the charity sector for over 30 years. Initially managing service delivery organisations, Heidi has a keen interest in asset-based community development and supporting the development of small community organisations.
More recently Heidi has worked in the grant-making sector for a wide range of funders, designing and managing grant programmes of varying sizes. Heidi is Grants Assessor for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.