Lloyd's charities make ten new trustee appointments

Introducing our new trustees to help build the capacity of our charities

We’re delighted to make ten new appointments across three charities to help address key issues facing the insurance sector around; innovation, managing risk, building resilient communities and empowering individuals to reach their potential. All three charities have their own trustees made up from professionals across our market, academia and wider.

Through Lloyd’s charities and Lloyd’s responsible business initiatives, in 2018:

• £1.4 million was donated to 198 organisations globally
• 80 young people received work placements
• 3,000 people volunteered from more than 70 companies in the market.

Lloyd’s Charities Trust

Lloyd’s Charities Trust partners with charities that aim to reduce the risk of devastation to the people who need it most, helping the most vulnerable groups with disaster risk reduction. It also supports causes close to the hearts of our people in the Lloyd’s market in London, supporting their charities with unrestricted grants through the Lloyd’s Market Charity Awards.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Vicky Carter, Chairman – Global Capital Solutions International at Guy Carpenter, as the new Chair of our disaster resilience charity, Lloyd’s Charities Trust. Vicky has been a trustee since 2014 and is also a board member of Lloyd’s Community Programme; our market wide volunteering initiative.

Caroline Klein has worked in communications, public relations and marketing in the financial services sector for 15 years and is currently a director at Haggie Partners.  Her remit has often included responsibility for corporate social responsibility and charitable activity, and she has volunteered for Lloyd’s Community Programme. She is looking forward to using these and other experiences to support Lloyd’s Charities Trust, which she believes does fantastic work with communities both geographically close to Lloyd’s, and highly vulnerable groups at risk of devastation globally.

Elizabeth Cabrera is Head of Underwriting Planning and Portfolio Management at StarStone Group. Prior to this, she served in several senior underwriting, actuarial and risk management roles across an international remit, including Talbot Underwriting, Chubb Europe and the PRA.  She joined the Lloyd’s Charities Trust Board because she is interested in the impact of climate change and promoting behaviours that could help manage or mitigate this major risk.

Hannah-Polly Williams is a partnerships, strategy and communications specialist with more than a decade experience in UK and international organisations. She is currently Director of Partnerships and Fundraising at the International Rescue Committee where she is responsible for all private fundraising and strategic projects in the UK market, and a member of the global strategy review taskforce. She has been a Trustee of Central London Samaritans and is currently completing an Executive MBA from Cambridge Judge Business School.

Mark Fidler joined Liberty Specialty Markets in 2009 and is currently Head of CSR & Premises. Mark has a long-standing connection with the Lloyd’s market, having held multiple roles including at Equitas and the Reconstruction & Renewal Project. Mark is passionate about helping companies improve their social impact; he leads Liberty’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme and has also been a trustee of Broadway, a homeless charity (now part of St. Mungo’s).  He is looking forward to joining the Lloyd’s Charities Trust Board to support its activities and increase its profile within the market.

Claire O’Meara
Claire is an international development expert and passionate child rights advocate. As Head of Private Sector Policy and Advocacy at Unicef UK, she leads a team of experts working with Government and business to promote the rights of children. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami led Claire to focus her career on reducing the impacts of natural disasters with a focus on capacity building of local organisations and supporting the most vulnerable communities with disaster risk reduction and building resilience. Claire is passionate about the role business has in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and excited to bring that passion to the role of trustee of Lloyd’s Charities Trust.

Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund

Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund is one of the oldest military charities of its kind and has been providing support to the Armed Forces Community for over two hundred years, uniting support from the market. Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund focuses on improving the transition to civilian life for veterans and their families who need the most help to ensure successful futures.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Ed Butler CBE DSO as the new Chair of Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund. Ed is currently Head of Risk Analysis at Pool Re where he supports the development and resilience of the UK economy reinsuring terrorism risk. Ed’s military career spans twenty-four years in the British Army.  Ed believes that there is so much that the (re)insurance market can do to look after the welfare and well-being of our servicemen and women and their families, who have sacrificed so much for each and every one of us. With 200 years of history of Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund, Ed is committed to ensuring that the charity remains fit for purpose for another 200 years.

Michelle Alston has a background in analysis and policy in the public sector, particularly within defence; including roles as a defence press officer, a civil servant at the Ministry of Defence and as the Head of Policy & Research for the Army Families Federation.  She is a Clore Social Fellow 2019, completing the Cobseo Clore Social Leadership course earlier this year. She is delighted to be joining the Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund as a trustee, and is committed to supporting the Armed Forces community she welcomes the opportunity work with the Lloyd’s market to affect further positive change and support for Service personnel, veterans and their families.

Caroline Sandeman-Allen is a solicitor and Head of Governance and Secretariat at Lloyd’s. Caroline is an experienced corporate lawyer with a particular interest in corporate governance and comes from a military family with both her father and uncle having been in the Royal Navy. Caroline is excited to join the board because she wants to contribute to the important work that the Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund does in uniting the Lloyd’s market to support the military community, both of which she is proud to be a part of.

Lloyd’s Tercentenary Research Foundation

Lloyd’s Tercentenary Research Foundation was established in 1988 to mark the 300th anniversary of Lloyd’s. It funds new research on risk related issues and also offers scholarships through Fulbright to study in the US. 

Netsai Mangwende is the Finance Director for Great Britain at Willis Towers Watson, responsible for the commercially focussed financial management of the GB operations. She believes that transformative education empowers us to be agents of change, helping to shape our world for the future. The research funded by Lloyd’s Tercentenary Research Foundation does exactly that, which is why she’s delighted to be a trustee.

We are delighted to welcome you all and thank you for giving your time to support Lloyd’s charities.