Charity Tax Group is governed by the Board of Trustees who meet regularly to review strategy and oversee delivery of CTG’s vision and mission, identify current issues and discuss technical matters. Board members are elected for three year terms and all represent a donating charity member.

CTG’s current trustees are:

Richard Bray, Chair

Richard is CTG’s Chair and a member of HMRC’s Charity Tax Forum. A chartered accountant, he joined Cancer Research UK shortly after its creation in 2002, having previously worked for KPMG for twenty years in varied audit and tax roles. He is a member of the Financial Reporting Council’s  Advisory Panel, having previously been a member of the Charities SORP Committee. Richard is CTG’s representative on the ICAEW Charities Special Interest Group.

Alex Gear

Alex began her career as an auditor in the charity sector, and worked with a variety of different charities and not-for-profit organisations, from religious orders to academies and schools. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Alex worked as Director of Finance and Resources at national charities Living Streets, Locality, and the Multiple Sclerosis Trust, and during this time was also a Trustee at Borough Market. Alex currently works at the National Council for the Training of Journalists as Head of Finance and IT.

Trudi Amy

Trudi is currently the In House Tax Accountant for MacMillan. She previously worked in practice as a tax advisor.

Barnaby Brand

Barnaby has worked in charity compliance for 17 years, first at WWF-UK, and now at Age UK. He specialises in Gift Aid, PCI DSS compliance and Fundraising Regulator compliance. In the last two years he has qualified as an Internal Security Assessor for PCI DSS and worked closely with CTG on a range of issues including policy work with HMRC on Gift Aid.

Philip Spedding

Philip is currently working at Tate as the head of Individual Giving and Collection Development. He was previously the Director of Development at The London Library and has worked in roles at, the British Library CAF and Arts & Business. He has close to 25 years of experience as a fundraiser and also has extensive experience in lecturing on the development of arts and private sector partnerships across the UK and internationally.

Monica Varriale

Monica is the Chief Finance and Strategy Officer at the Courtauld Institute, leading the organisation’s professional services. Monica is a chartered accountant and has been working in the charity sector since 2004. In her career at the Royal National Institute of the Blind she performed a variety of accounting and finance roles, starting as a management accountant and working upwards into financial leadership positions. She was also recently in a senior finance and management role at the Serpentine Galleries.

Advisers

Kerry Sykes, Technical Adviser

Kerry was, for 17 years, Head of Tax at Cambridge University before spending six years as a Director of Tax at KPMG. He now runs his own tax practice, based in Leicester.