Lisa Weaks

Lisa has 20 years' experience in the voluntary sector, which includes working with a range of UK charitable grant-makers, designing training programmes and providing organisational development for charities. She has been managing the IMPACT Awards since 2004, which provide core funding for health charities, and was responsible for designing the IMPACT Awards Development Network, which provides training and leadership development for health charities.

Her role as Third Sector Programme Manager includes managing the Partners for Health grant programme, which continues to support service improvement in the community health sector. She is one of the authors of The King's Fund/National Council for Voluntary Organisations report: The voluntary and community sector in health: Implications of the proposed NHS reforms and is currently co-leading a piece of research to examine the impact of health reform on volunteering.

Lisa is also a trustee of two grant-making trusts.