HFVC : Our Trustees

Tammy McFeggan, Chair

Tammy McFeggan is Director of Disney Corporate Community Affairs – managing Disney’s Community Outreach efforts for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role she has EMEA responsibility for Disney’s philanthropy, community relations and employee volunteer programme, Disney VoluntEARS. Disney Corporate Community Affairs is part of Disney’s Corporate Responsibility group.

Tammy began her career with Disney in 1982 as a ‘sweeper’ at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Humanities from California State University, Fullerton, she worked for the Resort in Human Resources. In 1992, she transferred to the Cast Activities Department and found her passion overseeing the Disney VoluntEARS programme. In 1997 she moved to the corporate offices in Burbank to supervise the Disney VoluntEARS programme globally. In 2001 she was part of the start up team that brought all of Disney’s outreach efforts under one umbrella that led to the creation of Disney Worldwide Outreach. She has been based at The Walt Disney Company Ltd offices in Hammersmith since 2002.

Tammy has been a trustee member of the Volunteer Centres and Corporate Volunteer Councils in Orange County and Los Angeles County California. She has been on the Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre for the past four and a half years and is currently serving as Trustee Chair.
Abdul Towolawi, Vice Chair

Fatai Towolawi popularly known as Abdul has been a long standing member of the HFVC board. He joined the Third Sector in 1992 as a Project Worker in a small West London charity for a short period. He moved on to manage older people day centre for a number of years. He also managed a community centre before he joined a south London charity as Fundraising Manager. In 2005 he moved on to manage the largest Neighbourhood Partnership in Camden.

He is currently an Independent Fundraising Consultant working with both large and small charities across London. He became a member of the Institute of Fundraising in 2005 after successfully completing the Institute of Fundraising Certificate programme. He successfully completed the Cass Business School-City University PgDip/MSc programme in Fundraising & Marketing.

Over the years he served on the board of various large and medium sized charities as Chair, Treasurer and committee members. He joined the HFVC as a Trustee in 1998
Paul Dowson, Treasurer

Paul Dowson has been our Treasurer and Trustee for some 10 years.He is a chartered accountant and Oxford graduate with many years business experience in the private sector.In particular he was Finance Director of IPC Magazines and one other major publishing company.He now lives in West Sussex but maintains close links with Hammersmith
Justin Althaus

Justin was called to the Bar in 1988. He specialises in professional negligence (especially surveyors and solicitors negligence), in all aspects of property law (including commercial and residential landlord and tenant claims, mortgages, co-ownership, nuisance and boundary disputes) and in commercial and contractual claims (including non-marine insurance, sale of goods and consumer credit). He is also a qualified mediator.
Matt Thorley

Matt was elected as a Trustee of the Hammersmith and Fulham Volunteer Centre in 2011. Matt has been a local Councillor for Fulham Broadway Ward in Hammersmith and Fulham since May 2010. He was brought up in Fulham and now lives on the Dawes Road, right in the heart of the Fulham Broadway Ward. He is an active member of the local community and serves as governor of Fulham Primary School.

He currently works as a financial consultant specialising in risk management. Previously he has worked in the House of Commons, the Finsbury Group and at Standard Chartered Bank where he was involved in a campaign called “Seeing is Believing” which has helped over 25 million people since its launch back in 2003.

He is a season ticket holder at Fulham Football Club and in his spare time enjoys cricket and running. He has completed the London Marathon on four occasions.
Joe Akowuah
Carol Allen
Carol Allen was elected as a trustee of the Hammersmith and Fulham Volunteer Centre in 2008.

She is a life-long Brent resident and also chairs the Brent Active Citizen’s programme ensuring that it is responsive to residents’ needs. She has been a vocal advocate of volunteering and apprenticeships in communities as a positive and sustainable way to tackle youth and long term unemployment.

Carol has worked as an English tour guide, European project development officer at both the Department of Trade& Industry and College of North West London. In 2005 she became the Head of Neighbourhood Renewal covering two of the most deprived communities in Brent.

Carol successfully worked in partnership with Business in the Community and local businesses which culminated in a visit by HRH Prince Charles to Brent. She currently works in Brent with councillors to develop community initiatives that tackle local priorities and promote participation.
Stan Paschal

Stan has lived for the most part of his life in London and his passions include education, work and involvement in charity voluntary work. He studied at the University of London and have gained the BSc(Econ)1975). BPhil 1982), BA(Hist) 1989 and from South Bank University London BA (T&C planning) 1984, BTEC HND (1995). He worked for Lambeth Council (Recruiting Dept., interviewing candidates for employment 1975-77; South Bank University London, in the planning, Housing and Technical Department (1977-1996).
Stan’s involvement in voluntary work covers a wide range of services over a long period performing various roles, and are as follows:
Teaching young people Literacy, Numeracy, Maths to GCSE level, assistance. With homework and for older people how to fill in various types of forms, budgeting and reading.

Was co-founder of Fulham Friendly Community association (1979-1998) to provide voluntary (free services to the elderly (eg shopping, befriending, day trips, entertainment etc.) and assistance to the youths with homework. My roles-Chair Treasurer, Secretary.

was a Member of the Management Committee of the Notting Hill Housing Trust
(1987-89).

Served as the Chair and Co-ordinator of the Randolph Beresford Trust (1995-2000), an exchange scheme for young people (ages 16-21) to visit other countries to
broaden their experience

was the founder of the Museum for African Caribbean Region (1996) to educate the general public about the contribution made by black and minority Ethnic groups in the economic social and cultural development in the UK.: also to motivate ethnic minority youths; and served as Chair, Secretary, and Co-ordinator.

was Secretary to the Kidney Patients Association London (1996-2005) the brainchild of a black entrepreneur in London.

has been a trustee at the Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre for more than 12 years.
Charles Forsyth
Dominic Pinkney

Dominic was elected as a Trustee of the Hammersmith and Fulham Volunteer Centre in 2011. He founded and manages Pedantic Consulting, a consultancy specialising in Strategy, Business Planning, Research, Evaluations and Social Media Intelligence. Working predominantly across the public and charity sectors, Dominic is an expert in helping organisations devise and implement strategies that will achieve their goals.

Currently a Lambeth resident, Dominic has been a keen supporter of HFVC for many years and is a strong advocate of the wide range of volunteering work they perform in communities across West London. Before setting up Pedantic Consulting, he worked on a variety of projects that helped socially excluded individuals connect with support providers, relevant training and employment opportunities.