cdfa staff
Ben Hughes
Interim Chief Executive
Ben’s involvement with the voluntary and community sector goes back over 20 years. Starting in environmental organisations (FOE and Greenpeace), Ben moved into community before turning to the advice sector where Ben trained as a welfare rights advocate, managed various CABx, ending up as Director of Blackfriars Advice Centre.
Latterly, as CEO of bassac, the social action membership network, Ben was active on a wide range of government task groups (Cabinet Office’ ChangeUp, Decc/Defra Ministerial Task Force on Climate Change and CLG’s Local Government Modernisation) and supported bassac’s members into a strong voice for social change. Always committed to collaborative working, Ben’s tenure of bassac concluded with the merger with DTA, to form Locality.
The cdfa offers Ben an exciting chance to combine his experience of community work, membership organisations and influencing government, in the varied and hugely important world of community finance; having spent 20 years attributing financial value to social impact, it’s now the other way round!
Email: b.hughes@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222
Ian Best
Policy and Research Officer
Ian joined the cdfa in January 2009 to assist Harry Glavan in the policy and research arm of the cdfa. Ian brings with him a strong set of research skills carried forward from his Masters degree in International Development and his undergraduate Economics course. Although new into the community finance sector he has previous work experience in the third sector and at an ethical research firm. Ian is currently enjoying the challenges and high rewards that working for the cdfa brings and is hoping to make a long and lasting difference within the sector.
Email: i.best@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222 – Ext. 205
Claire Caffrey
Capacity Building Manager
Claire joined the cdfa team in June 2004 as the Capacity Building Manager. This role is to support cdfa members to gain capacity building inputs to their organisations and reviewtheir organisational strength. This is carried out through the cdfa‘s performance framework – CM2 and developing programmes to provide additional support to members. Claire’s background has always been in the community development finance sector where she developed Street Cred – supporting women in to self-employment through peer support and peer lending.
Email: c.caffrey@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222 – Ext. 200
Fabiola Caillaud
Administrator
Fabiola, who joined the cdfa team in September 2004, was new to the CDFI sector. Her previous experiences ranged from sales, import-export in a large French company, tourism, customer service, and NHS. Fabiola likes challenges and enjoys being part of the cdfateam. Her diversified tasks involves a supporting role to the Chief Executive, answering the telephone, keeping the website and the database up-to-date, managing the use of the meeting room and caring for its guests, ordering stationary, assisting with bookkeeping. In short, Fabiola offers her support to each member of the cdfa team.
Email: f.caillaud@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222 – Ext. 201
Harry Glavan
Policy and Research Manager
Harry previously worked with Prime to secure major funding from the corporate sector, and has been working with cdfamembership since January 2008, moving into Policy & Research in January 2009. He has a Masters in Public Policy and has worked in the private, public and third sectors on a variety of issues, including municipal fiscal solvency strategy, urban planning initiates in Krakow, comparative assessment of public transport systems and regulatory frameworks for environmental modelling regimes.
Email: h.glavan@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222 – Ext. 205
Jules Mann
Operations Director
Jules Mann joined the cdfa as Operations Director in January 2009, following ten years at the Poetry Society, a national arts charity; from 2003-2008 she served as Director and was an active member of cultural leadership initiatives involving consortia activity to raise the profile of literature in the UK. Prior to that, Jules was working eleven years as Operations Manager in the commercial sector for a small wine import, retail and distribution company, followed by ten years of freelance development and strategic management consulting in the US and UK.
Email: j.mann@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222
Teresa Rowe
Finance and Office Manager
Teresa Rowe joined the cdfa as Finance and Office Manager in January 2010 having spent some 15 years working in financial management and fundraising roles for various organisations in the charity and not for profit sector. Prior to that Teresa trained as a tax consultant with a leading London accountancy firm and subsequently worked in the private sector, offering business support and financial management to small and medium enterprises. Teresa brings to the cdfa a wealth of experience supported by a CIPFA diploma in Charity Accounting and Financial Management from London South Bank University.
Email: t.rowe@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222 – Ext. 204
Ron Seddon
Strategic Outreach Manager
Joining the cdfa in April 2008, Ron brings with him a wealth of experience in membership organisations. He has been a Regional Director for an employers’ trade association and also a Senior National Officer with a trades union. For four years he also worked on a self employed basis on a range of contracts which included research, writing funding bids and assisting construction companies achieve industry standard accreditations. In his spare time Ron is a supporter of junior football being the current and founding Chairman of Netherton United a community charter standard club fielding some 25 teams.
Email: r.seddon@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 07917 500394
Corinne Thompson
Professional Development Manager
Corinne Thompson joined the cdfa as Professional Development Manager in January 2008 to develop a training resource that will provide a strategic approach to capacity building for our members, and to project manage the development and delivery of training programmes. Corinne has had a varied career, having worked as a Training and Development Manager within the retail sector, in business development within the franchise industry, and project management with charities and the not-for-profit sector.
Email: c.thompson@cdfa.org.uk
Tel: 020 7430 0222 – Ext. 209
