Who We Are: Staff

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Staff

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Aimée Allam

Aimée Allam

Executive director

An accomplished charity leader with over eleven years’ experience spanning service design, project leadership and operations management in a range of non-profit sectors, Aimée joins FT FLIC from her previous role as the Programme Director at Britain’s oldest economics-focused charitable think-tank.

Leyla Boulton

Leyla Boulton

FT liaison

Leyla Boulton is the FT liaison for FLIC, commissioning FT journalism and events to support FLIC’s mission. This part-time role complements her day job as development editor for FT Live and a senior editor at the Financial Times. 

Katy Palmer

Katy Palmer

Programme manager

Supporting FLIC’s delivery, Katy Palmer ​is a Year Here fellow with 10 years of experience nurturing communities in the creative and charity sectors. She is a Charity Comms Mentor to women working in the third sector and brings film production experience, previously working in a Spanish coding start-up.

Neal Fuller

Neal Fuller

Head of fundraising

With more than twenty years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector, Neal joins FT FLIC from the NSPCC where, over the last four years, he has held the positions of both principal gifts manager and senior philanthropy manager.

Chantelle Clarke

Chantelle Clarke

Head of content

Chantelle joins FLIC as head of content after 12 years teaching and leading humanities departments for secondary schools in inner-city London. As an ambassador for Teach First and Teach for All, she has taken part in collaborative projects in India, Chicago, New York and Toronto.

Rebecca Roden

Rebecca Roden

Education Consultant

With a career spanning education, technology and philanthropy sectors, Rebecca joins as FT FLIC’s education consultant. She holds a MSc in Social Business and remains committed to advisory positions for local and international charities.

Nikita Nathwani

Nikita Nathwani

Social Media and Video Officer

Nikita joins us from Brain Tumour Research where she held a post in digital engagement, focussed on producing rich multimedia content in order to drive fundraising and engagement across social media. She specialises in dynamic content creation, and as a media production graduate she brings expertise of a variety of media formats and platforms, specialising in ideation, scripting, directing and sound design.