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Sophie Hulm
Corporate Responsibility Manager
Sophie is the Corporate Responsibility Manager at the City of London. She manages the City Action team as well as the City Procurement Project, the City of London’s own employee volunteering programme and the Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards. Prior to the City of London, Sophie worked as a Project Manager for Heart of the City, a charity providing Corporate Responsibility advice to London-based businesses.
Sophie has a Masters in Corporate Social Responsibility and one day hopes to learn Spanish.
Sophie can be reached on 0207 332 1563
Noa Burger
Account Manager
Noa joined the City Action team in April 2011. In her role as Account Manager, Noa especially enjoys the opportunity to communicate across different sectors, the chance to help people to develop through volunteering activities and tying together her diverse previous experience.
Prior to joining City Action, Noa conducted a number of research and profile-raising projects as an intern in the Corporate Responsibility team at City of London Corporation and with Heart of the City. She also previously managed the Corporate Responsibility programme for LCH.Clearnet, a financial services company in the City. Noa’s background is in Social Anthropology and Psychoanalysis and, before finding CSR, she worked as a teacher and editor.
Noa can be reached on 020 7332 1762.
Edie Fassnidge
Account Manager
Edie joined the City Action team in May 2011 bringing experience of developing and delivering leading employee volunteering programmes while at CSV (Community Service Volunteers) and Volunteering England. At City Action she particularly enjoys engaging with businesses who are new to community engagement and working with them to develop mutually beneficial volunteering partnerships with community organisations.
Before joining the world of corporate community engagement Edie enjoyed roles as a secondary school teacher, in the Refugee Services team at the British Red Cross and as founder of a memorial music charity.
Outside of work Edie enjoys training and competing in triathlons, travelling, writing and volunteering as a youth mentor and member of a disaster support charity.
Edie can be reached on 020 7332 1753.
Liquidnet & Sotheby Mews Day Centre
Liquidnet Europe Limited, a small asset management business, joined City Action following attendance on a Community Tour to Islington in June 2010. One of the community organisations visited was Age Concern Islington’s Sotheby Mews Day Centre, with whom Liquidnet have chosen to support a variety of social events for local older people.
Colt and Friendship Works
Colt have been building their CSR programme from scratch since 2009. Selecting a charity partner was one aspect of setting up their community programme - the other aspect was introducing an employee volunteering policy which they introduced at the end of 2009. Colt operates in 14 countries and in 2009 each country was asked to work with its employees to select a charity partner for the next two years.
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