New appointments at Suffolk Community Foundation

We are delighted that Mark Wilkinson and Fran Wright have joined the Foundation this month.  Mark joins as Director of Finance and Operations and Fran as Philanthropy Manager.

Mark is a Chartered Accountant, trained with KPMG Norwich and, since leaving KPMG, has largely worked in the education sector, most recently as CFO at two multi-academy trusts and, prior to that, as FD of Easton and Otley FE College. Before that, he was financial controller at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), part of City University London. Mark has an MBA from City University and lives in the Woodbridge area with his two sons.

Fran joins us from Essex Community Foundation where she worked for 14 years in grant-making, philanthropy and donor care.  She studied Charity and Social Enterprise Leadership and Management at Anglia Ruskin University and was previously a chair of a Suffolk-based charity for violence against women and girls.  She lives on the Essex/Suffolk border near Manningtree.