An Introduction to ShareGift
The story and the people behind the UK’s only specialist share donation charity, and the only charity with our model in the world
Meet the team
We’re a small team with a big impact. We are proud to make share donation simple for our donors and corporate partners and thrilled to be able to support so many beneficiary charities.
If you have any queries, please reach out and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
As we are celebrating our 30th year as a charity we thought we would share what the team were doing in 1996, as well as a before and after picture. We will leave you to decide which is which!
David McIntosh
David first heard of ShareGift in 2001, and loved the concept so much that he repeatedly asked if he could join them until they finally relented in 2005. He has previous experience in both the financial services industry, primarily around Corporate Actions, and the charity sector. He served as ShareGift’s Head of Operations for many years, before becoming Chief Executive in 2024.
In 1996… David was studying medieval history at Bristol University, a subject he found hugely interesting and rewarding to study, and about which he can now remember basically nothing.
Jennie Hendrick
Jennie oversees the donor experience at ShareGift, as well as administering the intermediary portfolios we hold with our corporate partners. Jennie joined ShareGift in 2013, having previously worked in settlements for J.P. Morgan and Cazenove.
In 1996… Jennie was studying Law at Greenwich University whilst working part-time in Benetton perfecting the iconic ‘Benetton’ fold.
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Tara Arnold
Tara joined ShareGift in 2024 after a long career in fundraising and grant-making, mainly for children and youth charities. She is also a Trustee of the Essex and Suffolk Rivers Trust. Tara is the key contact for charities regarding grants or promoting ShareGift to the charity’s supporters.
In 1996… Tara was East 17’s biggest fan (still is). She was at school in Ilford picking her GCSE options and dining out in fine food establishments like Pizza Hut.
Beverley van der Sluis
Beverley has worked with ShareGift since 2019. As well as extensive experience as a Corporate Governance professional, Beverley worked for E*Trade Securities, overseeing their UK operations.
In 1996… Beverley was settling back into her financial services role as a business analyst after travelling through South-East Asia and tramping, bungy jumping and sky-diving her way around New Zealand.
Jenny Marchant
Jenny joined ShareGift in 2024 and has a wealth of knowledge in share registry, settlement, and share plan administration, with previous experience at J.P. Morgan, Cazenove Capital Management, AXA and Equiniti.
In 1996… Jenny was at secondary school busy revising for her GCSE’s, working part-time at Debenhams and trying to perfect the iconic Jennifer Aniston hairstyle!
Our history
Millions of people bought shares for the first time during the 1980s. Over time, following the receiving of dividends in the form of more shares, sales of holdings and changes in companies following mergers and acquisitions, many of this new wave of shareholders found themselves with nuisance holdings that would cost more to sell than they were worth. Administrative complications affected both individuals and companies, as companies faced the necessary, and ongoing, cost of administering shareholdings of all sizes.
While pursuing an investment management career in the City of London, Claire Mackintosh noted this, and also that there was a large reservoir of small or otherwise illiquid shareholdings that had arisen over the preceding decades. She resolved to devise a solution to this conundrum that was effective from a technical point of view, and with charitable purpose. The key was to focus on problem-solving with a charitable outcome, rather than fundraising. She came up with a plan, though the practical obstacles were considerable.
The answer was ShareGift.
Having secured charitable status for the new venture in 1995, Claire worked on structuring and setting up ShareGift, painstakingly developing a template which would accommodate the numerous aspects of the idea. The first priority was to prove the concept in practice for odd lot shares, with a view to including in due course other asset classes where small amounts were found to be time-consuming and therefore costly to deal with: small holdings or cash amounts arising from corporate transactions such as mergers and takeovers, for example, and a variety of other sources. The outcome has been a valuable new income stream for UK-registered charities, along with significant savings to the financial and corporate community. As a result of ShareGift’s unique charitable grant-making policy, devised to fit the way in which funds are generated, share donors and organisations that have assisted ShareGift in what it does have been included in the process. Charities, as well as benefitting from unrestricted donations, have been assisted by ShareGift in furthering their own understanding of share giving as a tool for their own fundraising.
In this enterprise Claire was joined by co-founder Matthew Orr, Managing Partner and Chief Executive of Killik & Co. from 1989 to 2006, who was a trustee from the Charity’s launch in 1996 until 2012. Killik & Co has been invaluable to the creation and growth of ShareGift throughout, carrying out share disposals free of charge and providing support in a variety of ways. This has been integral to our ability to achieve so much with such a small team.
Claire Mackintosh served as Chief Executive from ShareGift’s inception until 2014, remaining at the Charity in various active and then supporting roles until 2024. She continues as our Patron & Founder.
Our Trustees
Our board of trustees help oversee, support, and guide the organisation. All of our trustees are volunteers and do not receive payment for their services or support. We are grateful for their ongoing commitment.
Gillian Budd
Gillian is an experienced commercial and charity lawyer and has substantial experience in governance, legal and risk in the not-for-profit sector, working for the international children’s charities Save the Children UK and Plan International. In May 2023 Gillian stepped down as head of governance, legal and compliance for Teach First, the education charity. She has extensive experience as a past or present trustee and member of finance, audit, risk, nominations and chairs succession committees in several charities.
Julian Baddeley
Julian is Group Company Secretary of National Grid plc.
Julian is a Company Secretary and Corporate Lawyer and has extensive Board, C-suite, transactional and regulatory experience in large FTSE100 organisations across global financial services, FMCG and magic circle private practice. Julian was most recently Group Company Secretary of Aberdeen plc and previously Deputy Group Company Secretary and Corporate Counsel at Aviva plc. Prior to that he worked for Clifford Chance, Friends Life and Cadbury plc in various company secretarial and legal roles.
Julian is a member of the Chartered Governance Institute Company Secretaries Forum and the Chair of ShareGift’s Audit Committee.
Helen Baker
Helen is an experienced Chartered Governance Professional with a background in the secretariats of large listed international groups. She has been involved in many aspects of company secretarial work throughout her career, including supporting boards and committees, global entity management, share plans, and supporting projects such as M&A and JVs. She has a particular interest in process (re-)engineering and the use of technology to support and enable governance.
Helen is the Chair of ShareGift’s Remuneration Committee.
Lee Davis
Lee is an experienced Company Secretary, specialising in shareholder governance for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in capital events such as dividends, rights issues, listings and various shareholder engagement programmes. Lee started his career in share registration working at Capita Registrars (now MUFG Corporate Markets, a division of MUFG Pension & Market Services) and Computershare before moving into shareholder services roles at Prudential and Standard Chartered. He is currently leading the shareholder governance team at HSBC.
Michael Kempe
Michael worked as part of the team that launched the Central Security Depository system (CREST) in 1996, before working extensively on the global harmonisation of asset servicing at Euroclear. Michael then spent over 10 years at Capita Registrars (now Link Group) where he was COO.
He has extensive board experience having sat on and Chaired both regulated and non-regulated boards during his time at Capita and Link Group, as well as a number of European and Global Working Groups, Governmental and Trade Organisation Committees.
Georgie Killik
Georgie joined wealth manager Killik & Co in 2011, originally working in the Family Office before moving on to lead on innovation projects, and became Deputy Senior Partner in 2022.
Georgie was the driving force behind the launch of Killik & Co’s digital service suite, that includes the save and invest app Silo, and client portal myKillik. Georgie also oversees the expansion of the House of Killik high street network, which began in 2018 on the Northcote Road, and most recently saw the opening of flagship House of Killik in Chiswick in south London.