Payroll Giving Group

The Payroll Giving Group is a professional network for fundraisers involved in workplace giving. It promotes collaboration, best practice and innovation in payroll giving to increase sustainable support for UK charities.

The group exists to bring together fundraisers involved in payroll giving to share information, best practice and new ideas, as well as debate current challenges. It also provides a great opportunity to network with other sector colleagues whether from charities, professional fundraising organisations (PFO's), agencies or industry bodies.

Meet the committee

Xavier Hussein

Mervi Slade

Mervi Slade is a Product & Programme Manager for Payroll Giving at Cancer Research UK. She has been working in Payroll Giving in various roles from a Professional Fundraising Organisation to Payroll Giving Agency. She has also worked at Save the Children as their Payroll Giving Manager and before her role at Cancer Research UK worked as a consultant helping charities in Payroll Giving.

In 2018 she was awarded Outstanding Contribution to Payroll Giving award at the National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards.
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Ollie Lashbrook

Ollie Lashbrook is a Senior Operations Manager at Macmillan Cancer Support sitting within the Corporate Partnerships Department and manages Payroll Giving. This has been part of his role since 2017. He has been in a variety of roles at Macmillan since 2013.

He is also Vice Chair for Payroll Giving Special Interest Group.
Caroline Gaskin

Caroline Gaskin is the Development Manager for Together for Animals – a consortium charity who in an average year receives 90% of their income through Payroll Giving. As the sole employee of Together for Animals, Caroline leads on the day-to-day operations and growth of the charity.
Xavier Hussein

Xavier is a Corporate Partnerships Manager at WaterAid. After receiving a distinction in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London, Xavier has worked in shared value partnerships between the not-for-profit and private sector for the past four years, and believes in the power of payroll giving to bring transformational change to the biggest issues facing the world today.

Upcoming events

Volunteer with us

We are looking for new volunteers to join our committee. If you'd like to support our activities across the region, and gain some valuable experience in the process, please visit the group volunteering page, or get in touch with any questions.

We are currently recruiting for the following roles:

EDI Lead
Secretary
General committee members

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If you would like to get involved in future, or have any ideas or questions, please get in send us an email .

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