Kirsty is Chief Executive of the Mayor’s Fund for London, the independent social mobility charity supporting young Londoner from low-income backgrounds.  The Mayor’s Fund’s campaigning and programme activities span the fields of wellbeing, skills and employability, with the charity supporting around 40,000 children and young people every year. 

Previously, Kirsty spent eight years as CEO of the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), the membership body for providers of employability services, where she oversaw a five-fold increase in membership and a major expansion of spheres of influence to cover disability and health issues, youth unemployment, housing and homelessness and services to (ex) offenders, alongside detailed work with the UK and Scottish Governments and combined authorities on the design and live running of employment support programmes. 

Kirsty also served as Director of Partnerships and Director of Regeneration at Business in the Community, where she ran work on employment, enterprise and health inequalities, plus led BITC’s national delivery programmes, including a network of 100 local groups delivering regeneration, employee volunteering and pro-bono schemes.  Kirsty is a member of Impetus’s Investment Committee, sat on the National Lottery Fund panel for the Building Better Opportunities Fund and is a non executive director of an East London housing association.