Neil White

Neil White, BA (Hons), MA

Strategist – Business Development – Senior Management

Neil has 30 years’ experience of working in senior management positions in the public and charitable sectors, specialising in heritage, voluntary sector development and adult social care.

He spent 11 years working in local authority museums in London and Surrey. Moving on from museum work in the early 2000s, Neil worked for Surrey County Council where he led a local authority development team that supported voluntary and community sector groups with specialist funding advice on national lottery programmes, statutory and other sources of development funding.

He also sat on several grants bodies in Surrey distributing grants for early years partnership and environmental projects.

From 2007 Neil has worked in the charitable sector in senior management roles, working for three years as fundraising director for an educational e-learning charity, applying for development grants from charitable trusts and foundations, national lottery, and collaborating with corporate technological companies.

For the last decade Neil has worked in senior charity sector management roles in London, firstly as Director of the Southwark Pensioners Centre and more recently as Chief Executive of the Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre, two adult social care charities in London, provide vital support to vulnerable older adults particularly during the recent pandemic.

He also has experience of partnership working within the voluntary sector, having successfully led community partnerships to apply for contracts and development grants.