Trustees
Stephanie Harland - Chair
Stephanie has many years of NGO experience and has a longstanding connection with Zambia and a strong awareness of the issues affecting orphaned and vulnerable children in the country. Stephanie was Chief Executive of Age UK until September 2021.
Philippa Tolmay - Secretary
Philippa is Cecily's younger sister. She is the Secretary of Cecily's Fund. She works as a criminal barrister with Doughty Street Chambers.
Tom Childs
Tom is Associate Director of Fundraising at Saїd Business School, University of Oxford. Joining in 2014 his focus is primarily on corporate and foundation fundraising, helping to establish several research initiatives, and fundraising for a range of scholarship programmes. Tom was for 14 years a senior fundraiser for Oxfam, specialising in major gifts that supported its overseas humanitarian and development programmes. Tom has a degree in Communication from Bournemouth University and a master’s in Studies in Fiction from the University of East Anglia. Tom has also held a number of research and marketing roles, including at Blackwells Information Services, Business Link London and Pall Europe Ltd. Tom's wife was born in Kitwe, Zambia, and he and his family chose to support Cecily's Fund as a result of this personal connection.
Basil Eastwood CMG
Basil is Co-Founder of Cecily’s Fund together with his wife Alison. He is also Chair of the International Advisory Panel, Chair of Swiss Friends of Cecily’s Fund and a Director of our US sister organisation, American Friends of Cecily’s Fund. He has visited our programmes on many occasions. He had a successful career in the Diplomatic Service and served as Ambassador in Switzerland and before that Syria.
Isobelle Jaques
Isobelle has worked extensively on human rights and conflict-related issues in both governmental and non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International, the Council of Europe and Wilton Park, an agency of the (then) Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Now retired, she is a regular volunteer in a primary school.
International Advisory Panel
Basil Eastwood - Chair of Panel, Co-Founder of Cecily's Fund
Basil was British Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and, before that, Syria. He retired from the British diplomatic service in 2004. He was Founder Chairman of Cecily’s Fund for 10 years. He is still Chair of Swiss Friends of Cecily’s Fund and serves as a Director of our US sister organisation, American Friends of Cecily’s Fund. He has visited our programmes on many occasions.
