Sarah Denselow

Sarah joined NPC in 2016 and leads our consultancy work on effective philanthropy, supporting grant-makers from charitable foundations and corporates to individuals and families to maximise the impact of their giving. Recent projects include helping an prominent island-based funder through a major strategy and learning process, leading a team providing end-to-end grant-making support to the Stone Family Foundation’s UK portfolios, and supporting an anonymous philanthropist to make substantial gifts in the visual impairment sector. Sarah is also involved with NPC’s think tank work on philanthropy and grant-making, including as lead author of NPC’s report on embedding DEI in grant-making and as part of the team exploring evaluation and learning approaches centered in trust and equity. Previous work at NPC includes management of the Transition Advice Fund, a pooled fund focused on the EU Settlement Scheme.

Before joining NPC Sarah spent more than five years working at the Asfari Foundation where she managed a grant programme supporting education and employment projects for disadvantaged young people in the UK and Middle East. Prior to this Sarah worked as an Analyst for the consultancy firm Woodnewton Associates, conducting qualitative and quantitative research for charity and public sector clients.

Sarah has an interest in charity governance and was trustee of Crohn’s & Colitis UK from 2013 to 2022. This included work as chair of the Governance Committee and trustee member of the Research Strategy and Funding Committee.

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Why I work for NPC

It is a great privilege to work with charities and funders to help them increase their impact. I love the breadth of organisations NPC supports, and the knowledge, passion and commitment of the team.