Governance & Policies
Trustees
Trustees bring skills in financial inclusion, social mobility, business leadership, mental health, and risk management.
Together, the team’s experience in arts, engagement, fundraising, finance, governance, and safeguarding ensures the charity is responsive to needs, well run, agile, and robust.
Ayesha Begum
Ayesha has worked in the not-for-profit and charity sector for a number of years focussing on financial inclusion and social mobility. She currently works on projects related to strategy, systems change and social impact to create a fairer and more accessible financial services sector. Prior to this, she managed programmes assisting thousands of young people from low-income backgrounds to enter universities and access the professions.
She also volunteers her time as Global Development Manager at a STEM-based organisation to engage and inspire young people into STEM related fields.
Ayesha has lived in Crystal Palace for a number of years and is keen to use arts and local heritage to advance opportunities for the local community to come together through shared interests. As a trustee, she will support with volunteer management and associated engagement, policies and procedures related to this.
Aoife Dawe
Chartered accountant with 12 years’ experience in finance and strategy roles across the Fast Moving Consumer Goods and retail sectors. She brings expertise in strategic planning, commercial finance, financial modelling, budgeting and risk management, supporting Invisible Palace with strong financial oversight and strategic guidance. Aoife has lived in Crystal Palace for three years and enjoys engaging with the local community through clubs and creative pursuits.
Catherine O'Connor
Senior Manager with broad experience within the arts, culture, and charity sectors, bringing risk management, leadership and strategic insight to support risk mitigation, organisational resilience, and enhancing community impact.
Mary Lines
Business leader with a Global services firm focused on mobilising, transforming and controlling the delivery of services contracts across industry bringing commercial experience and risk management skills to Invisible Palace.
Catherine O'Connor
Sarah has been in the retail sector for 20 years and spent the last 11 working for British Red Cross where she leads on policies, development and risk management. Sarah also champions well-being and diversity and as a student counsellor, endeavours to apply this lens to her corporate role to ensure policies and procedures are accessible and person centred. Social impact is close to Sarah’s heart particularly since the pandemic. Her role as a Trustee at Invisible Palace is to support and advise on policy and procedures and she is passionate about bringing the community together through shared interests.
Charitable Status
Invisible Palace is registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
Registered address 23 Dulwich Wood Avenue London SE19 1HB.
Our Registered Charity Number is 1165888.
Invisible Palace has been constituted since June 2015. It was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation by the Charity Commission on 7th March 2016, which is its legal date of foundation.
Privacy Notice
Invisible Palace works with local people in order to create and run projects. For this reason, we know it’s important to work in a way that people would expect particularly when it comes to any personal information that we collect.
In this Privacy notice we give details of when and why we collect your personal information and for what purpose, to limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
What information do we collect about you?
We collect information about you when you sign up for our newsletter or sign up to volunteer with us. Website usage information is collected using cookies.
Newsletter mailing list
As part of the subscription process for our newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about things you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are correct. We don't rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
We use a third-party provider, EmailOctopus, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails.
Volunteering
If you sign up to volunteer with Invisible Palace we will hold some of your personal details so that we can stay in touch with you about volunteering. We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to help us email information to volunteers and to organise volunteering opportunities.
In addition to contact details we may store information about your volunteering preferences, experience, DBS checks or other information that you choose to disclose so that we might better support you as a volunteer. This information will only be viewable by our volunteer managers and will not be shared further.
Who do we share information with?
From time to time Invisible Palace is fortunate enough to receive grant funding or sponsorship. As part of the application and evaluation process for such funding we may share anonymised personal information with other organisations. This could include statistics from events, volunteering, social media, our website or equal opportunities monitoring information.
Access to your information and keeping it accurate and up to date
The information we hold about you can be accessed and changed by you via Mailchimp by clicking the link ‘update your preferences’ at the bottom of Mailchimp messages we send you. As we are a volunteer run organisation and we appreciate it if you are able to manage your own information should it change. You may also unsubscribe from a Mailchimp list at any time.
We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date so the information we hold will be reviewed every two years. Information that we no longer require will be removed.
You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate. You may also request a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us at the following address.
info@invisiblepalace.org.uk Invisible Palace, Data Protection, 23 Dulwich Wood Avenue, London SE19 1HB
Cookies
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Other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated in May 2018.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you:
info@invisiblepalace.org.uk Invisible Palace, Data Protection, 23 Dulwich Wood Avenue, London SE19 1HB