The National Giving Team

Jonathan leads the Giving directorate, which supports parish ministry with the resources, knowledge, guidance and training for financial sustainability and growth. The directorate includes the National Giving Team, Parish Buying, Parish Giving Scheme and the Resources & Insight team. He has been in this role since 2019, before that he was Generous Giving Adviser for the Diocese of Oxford. He holds an MA in Applied Theology and is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising.

Eleanor Stead is the Deputy National Giving Advisor, helping to build the Generous Giving Team and implement the National Giving Strategy. She is Chair of the Giving Advisor Fund Panel and delivers a range of giving support including fundraising, legacy and ChurchLegacy.org.

Helen is the National Fundraising Advisor and joined the National Giving Team in 2019. Her role is to support churches and dioceses with fundraising for projects beyond regular giving and with legacies. She leads on the teams work to support churches with fundraising to be net zero carbon by 2030.

Hannah is the Regional Giving Advisor for the midlands and east of the country. Her responsibility is to support dioceses in this area with all aspects of giving and to help deliver the National Giving Strategy.

Jim is the Regional Giving Advisor for the midlands and east of England. His responsibility is to support dioceses in that part of England with all aspects of giving and to help deliver the National Giving Strategy.

Gary is the Regional Giving Advisor for the south of England. His responsibility is to support dioceses in that part of England with all aspects of giving and to help deliver the National Giving Strategy.

Dave is the Regional Giving Advisor for the North, supporting and encouraging Dioceses and Churches to grow generosity and giving. He is also researching the sustainability of Fresh Expression and Resource Churches, and how giving, commerce, and income generation can help support these churches with long-term growth.

Grace joined the National Giving team in October 2020 in a new role dedicated to digital giving. She is responsible for enabling greater access to digital giving for churches, including a three-year rollout of digital giving that will see 2,000 churches across the country receive contactless donation devices. Grace is also working to improve reporting mechanisms for online and contactless giving to give dioceses better insight into digital giving as an income stream for churches.

Luke is the Digital Giving Project Officer and joined the team in February 2025. He supports churches and Giving Advisors in all aspects of digital giving and helps the team work towards the successful delivery of the National Giving Strategy.

Emma joined in 2024 as NZC Statutory Fundraising Coordinator. Her role is to support dioceses and parishes in accessing a range of statutory funds to support carbon reduction.

Grace facilitates national net zero carbon fundraising projects as well as creating new funding streams for the Net Zero Programme and creating new resources to support fundraising.

Grace took on the role of Head of Parish Buying in November 2022. Prior to this, she was ACCA’s Procurement Manager for Global Markets. She holds a BSc in Management and Accounting, and Certificates in International Women’s health and Human Rights and Stress Management and Coping skills. She is currently undertaking her MBA in International Oil and Gas Management as well as a Certificate in Understanding Mental Health. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.

David is the Net Zero Officer, with a wide range of practical experience and delivery in energy efficiency and carbon reduction projects David is looking at how to make the process of moving towards Net Zero for Parishes easier to understand and make the access to services and supplier needed across a range of measures simpler, taking some of the pain away from Parishes as they make inroads into their Net Zero ambitions.

As the Parish Buying Project Manager, Pamela would be responsible for managing the delivery of the new Parish Buying website project as well as the Parish Buying strand of the Net Zero Carbon program. She comes with extensive experience in project management. She will also be supporting the creation of a procurement centre of excellence for Parish Buying.

Monique took on the role of Procurement Category Officer in March 2024. Prior to this, she was a Procurement Officer at The Royal Society. She is responsible for supporting the National Giving Team to support, advise and enlighten stakeholders on NCI procurement protocols, which will promote sound and effective end-to-end procurement practices.

Ann-Marie joined in January 2025 as Procurement Officer leading on the category of Facilities Management. Ann-Marie comes with ten years’ experience as a procurement officer and has procured services for both the public and private sector specialising in Historic Buildings, Restoration works, maintenance services for public and domestic buildings.

Ann-Marie also has twenty years’ experience in commissioning services that have supported community projects for the charity sector including the setting up of a number of mental health hubs and health services to support for local people.

Annie’s team brings together resource creation and marketing to ensure high quality support is given to parishes and dioceses. It does this through three workstreams:

• Parish Resources, which offers high quality learning and resources to enable parishes to focus on their ministry and manage it effectively.
• Cornerstone, which gives church leaders the space and skills to understand how their finances are currently constructed and how they can improve them.
• Building A Generous Church, which delivers a range of activities (including Generosity Week) so that churches can explore together the nature of generosity in their context, and what their response could be.

The team also ensures robust data underpins decision making so that resources are used wisely.

Chermonea (otherwise known as Chem) is responsible for all the comms activity for Parish Buying, which includes digital, print and social media. She also overlooks the user experience of Parish Buying members by managing the website, assessing the user journey and determining the needs of the members through market research.

Marcia is the Data Analyst for the Giving Strategy. She is a trained statistician and has done a number of roles in statistics and data analysis over her career; including time within central and local government. She loves Excel and is always happy to share this knowledge with others.

Lou joined the team as Parish Resources Officer in August 2023. She will be responsible for reviewing and developing the Parish Resources website and its content, to support the day to day running of churches. With a background in parish lay ministry and a former diocesan giving advisor, Lou will be working with focus groups made up of parish and diocesan representatives to ensure Parish Resources meets the needs of its users.

Catia joined the National Giving team in October 2022 as the Giving Administrator. The main part of her role is to provide administrative support to the team and the initiatives they are leading on including Digital Giving and Cornerstone.