The Share Donation Charity

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About Us

Business Problem, Business Solution, Charitable Outcome

ShareGift (Registered Charity no. 1052686) provides a charitable solution to the business problem of small shareholdings. Often unwanted because they are too small to sell, these shares can be transferred to ShareGift at no cost to the shareholder, aggregated and sold to benefit different registered charities. The result is a significant funding stream for the charitable sector which would not otherwise exist, along with substantial savings for companies in administrative costs. Since the charity was set up in 1996, over £49 million has been donated to more than 3,700 charities.

ShareGift works closely with shareholders, publicly listed companies, privately held companies, solicitors, stockbrokers, financial advisers and charities to create this pool of charitable fundsClick here for more information about how it works.

Our sister charity ShareGift Australia was launched in 2007.

Trustees

ShareGift's trustees are volunteers and donate their services. They receive no payment for the work that they do. All trustees act in a personal capacity, meaning that they do not represent any third party, including the companies that employ them.

Gillian Budd - Chair

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 chair succession committees in several charities.

Julian Baddeley

Julian is a Company Secretary and Corporate Lawyer and leads the National Grid Secretariat team. Julian is a passionate governance professional, with extensive Board and C-suite experience in large FTSE100 organisations across global financial services, FMCG and 'magic circle' private practice. Julian's previous role was as Deputy Group Company Secretary at Aviva plc from 2015-2022. Prior to that he worked for Clifford Chance as a Corporate Finance Lawyer and at Friends Life and Cadbury plc in various Company Secretarial and legal roles.

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.

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 Link Group) 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.

Founders

Viscountess Mackintosh of Halifax FCG - Founder & Patron

Claire Mackintosh had 16 years' experience in the City of London prior to creating ShareGift, the concept of which she had devised during her early career in the 1980s. She first worked as a UK pension fund manager. Developing a strong interest in innovation in the investment field, she became involved in establishing one of the earliest East European private equity funds. Later she specialised in the Korean stockmarket, based partly in Seoul.  She worked on structuring and setting up ShareGift from 1995, launching it in 1996 and serving as Chief Executive until 2014. She remained at the Charity in various active and then supporting roles until 2024.

Matthew Orr - Co-Founder Matthew Orr is a co-founder of ShareGift and was a Trustee from the Charity's launch in 1996 until 2012. He also co-founded Killik & Co, and was its Managing Partner and Chief Executive from 1989 to 2006.

 

£50,529,000

Donated

10,609

Donations Made

3,753

Charities Supported

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