Janie joined Stewardship as CFO in February 2021. She trained as a chartered accountant in South Africa, but has spent the majority of her working life in the UK, firstly in a number of senior finance roles with Barclays Bank, before moving into the charitable sector 8 years ago.
Janie spent 4 years working at the forefront of social investment, as Finance Director of ‘Access – The Foundation for Social Investment’, pioneering their total-impact investment approach of their £60mil endowment, and also was acting CEO for 6 months while there.
Most recently Janie led The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (now known as the Just Money Movement), a charity seeking to influence on issues related to faith and finance, where she regularly spoke on connecting faith, money matters and living generously utilising all we have available to us.
Janie is passionate about social justice and has held a number of trusteeships, most recently supporting a small London-based charity supporting women exiting sexual exploitation via the provision of holistic support including housing.
She is married with two young children and has recently moved to be part of an exciting church plant in Wiltshire, where she is also a trustee.