Helen Jackson
Trustee

Helen Jackson was appointed to the SDNPA in April 2016. She is a heritage advisor and consultant and has worked across the not-for-profit, public and commercial sectors. Until 2014 Helen was Chief Executive of the Campaign for National Parks, the independent charity campaigning to protect and promote National Parks in England and Wales.

For 7 years previously she was Chief Executive of Museums, Libraries and Archives South East, a not-for-profit agency supporting regional museums, libraries and archives. Other experience includes UK-wide policy posts at the Heritage Lottery Fund, museum management, and leisure and tourism

Dan Montagnani
Trustee

Dan has been with Groundsure since 2005 and assumed his current role leading the business since 2009. Dan has worked in environmental risk for the last 19 years including 2.5 years in Barclays Bank Environmental Risk Management Unit.

The Business “Groundsure” was started in 2001, as a start-up formed by a handful of people with ideas and ambitions but no customers and no data, today it provides over 100 different products and hundreds of different data sets. The company has grown from being a great idea and a blank sheet of paper to the UK authority on environmental risks, operating in multiple sectors of the property market and providing insight, intelligence and risk advice that’s relied upon not just by conveyancers but also by banks, investors, chartered surveyors, developers and architects.

Toni Shaw
Trustee

Toni Shaw is the Director at Sequoia Consultancy Services which provide guidance and support to Trustees running charitable Trusts. Formerly a successful Marketing and Business Development Director in IT and Telecommunications, Toni changed direction and joined the voluntary sector in 2004.

After taking a Masters Degree at Roehampton University in Voluntary Action Management, her first role was as Business Development Director at the National Council for One Parent Families, now Gingerbread Families. In 2007, Toni become CEO at the  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation where, with the support of the Board of Trustees, she established the Foundation and built an endowment of nearly £11 million for the long term support of communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. A further £7 million in small grants was also distributed to over 2,000 small local charities and community groups around the county. During this time, Toni was a Trustee for a number of other charities, including the Bordon Charity, the Saints Foundation and the New Forest Trust. She chaired the BBC Trust’s Audience Council England: South Panel for three years and was a mentor for the Hampshire School of Social Entrepreneurs.

In 2016, Toni set up Sequoia Consultancy  services, a Charitable Trust Business providing support and guidance to charitable trusts and helping to release charitable assets back into communities. She is currently a Trustee for the Blue Lamp Trust, the Bordon Charity, and the Saints Foundation.