Our Patrons

David Livermore

David Livermore joined IBM from Cambridge in 1961. He pursued a career primarily in sales and marketing and was Sales Director for seven years. He left IBM in 1992 and became Group Managing Director for the RAC Motoring Services until 1996. He was also a non-executive director of Triplex Lloyd and Doncasters PLC. In 1996 he was appointed Chairman of the Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust.

In the voluntary sector, he was elected Chairman of the RNID from 1995 and has been Chairman of The Computability Centre from 1992 and then of its successor, AbilityNet, from 1998. He also chairs the Disability Panel of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. In 1999 David became Chairman of the Newbury Spring Festival.

As a patron of Charity Technology Trust, David's role is to enhance its credibility in the charity sector and significantly improve Charity Technology Trust Raffles’ network and reach.

Lord Joel Joffe

Lord Joffe has a long history of involvement in the charitable sector, including service as Chair of Oxfam and the Giving Campaign and as a Trustee in The Thamesdown Voluntary Services Council, International Alert, Thamesdown Community Trust and Action for Disability and Development among others. He was also a member of the steering group which set up The Per Cent Club. Other milestones in his life include the defence of Nelson Mandela and others at the Rivonia trial in South Africa (1963), and becoming a Life Peer in 2000.

He also chaired the Swindon Health Authority, The Swindon and Marlborough Acute Health Trust, The Ridgeway Private Hospital and was a member of The Royal Commission for the Care of the Elderly.

Joel was a founding director of Allied Dunbar Assurance from which he retired as Deputy Chairman in 1992 in order to campaign on behalf of consumers in the financial services industry.

As the founder patron of Charity Technology Trust, Lord Joffe’s role is to enhance its credibility in the charity sector and significantly improve CTT Raffles’ network and reach.

John Isherwood

John Isherwood was educated at Oxford and Stanford. After time as a volunteer in Asia he qualified as a solicitor and was then a staff member of VSO for nearly 5 years before becoming a solicitor in private practice until his retirement in 2001.

John was a trustee of Oxfam for 30 years (from 1968 to 1998) including six years as Chair of its executive committee. John was a founder trustee of WaterAid in 1981 and its Chair for 6 years (from 1995 to 2001). He is currently a trustee of NCVO and Chair of the Hampshire Archives Trust.

As a patron of Charity Technology Trust, John brings a lifetime of experience as a charity trustee and, as retired solicitor, he will help guide Charity Technology Trust's trustees on some of the legal aspects of IT driven change in the sector.

Tessa Baring

Tessa Baring MSc. C.B.E. has played a wide variety of Trustee roles in the UK voluntary sector over the last 25 years. These include Chair of Barnardo's, Chair of the Association of Charitable Foundations, Vice-chair of ITDG, Trustee of Mental Health Foundation and The Baring Foundation.

She has also been a member of a London Health Authority and has recently retired as a board member of the Community Fund at which she chaired, at various times, the Policy Co-ordination Committee and the UK Committee. Tessa also chaired the deregulation task force for charities and voluntary organisations.

As a patron of Charity Technology Trust, Tessa's role is to enhance its credibility in the charity sector and significantly improve Charity Technology Trust network and reach.

Peter Sweatman

Peter Sweatman founded Charity Technology Trust to bring together key players in the charity, business and technology arenas. He was CEO of CTT for 4 years during which its first charitable initiative in online raffles developed into a broader outsourced platform for Charity IT.

Peter's energy, inspiration and vision for change in the UK charity sector were key drivers of CTT's success thus far.  Peter also co-founded CITRA, the Charity IT Resources Alliance, and is advisor to Ashoka in Spain.  Peter is currently working in the area of Climate Change for UK specialist financing group Climate Change Capital.

Peter's personal goals are those of a true social entrepreneur - to invest in increased returns to the community. At CTT, Peter channeled his energies to use technology to help charities communicate and raise as much money as possible in the most cost-efficient way.  Today, Peter is working at a firm leading the development of financial instruments to combat Climate Change.

Peter was educated in Engineering at Cambridge University and subsequently spent 10 years working for JP Morgan in London and New York. While at JP Morgan, Peter chaired the key young people's fundraising committee for Barnardo's raising over £100,000 in four years from a series of events.