About PayPal Giving Fund
Harnessing tech for good causes
PayPal Giving Fund is a registered charity that uses PayPal tech and support to fundraise for causes. Without charging individual donors or charities for our services.
Our board
Guiding with purpose. Governing with integrity.
PayPal Giving Fund is led by an experienced and independent Board of Directors dedicated to upholding our mission and values. Acting on behalf of donors and beneficiaries, the board provides strategic oversight, ensures operational transparency, and monitors organizational impact. They meet regularly to review policies and practices that support integrity, accountability, and long-term effectiveness.
Vanessa Onyemem
Chair, PPGF UK and Chief Operating Officer at PayPal Europe
Vanessa is based in Luxembourg. In COO role, she has responsibility for enabling delivery of core first line activities for the regulated entity across Europe. Previously, Vanessa was PayPal Europe's Chief Compliance Officer, overseeing key regulatory compliance matters in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Her previous experience includes serving as Compliance Director, UK and Europe at Worldpay, and Head of Compliance and Operational Risk at Alphabet (a BMW Group Company). Beyond her corporate duties, Vanessa has been a Board Trustee for the PayPal Giving Fund UK since December 2023. In November 2025, she assumed the role of Chair of the Board, where she continues to provide strategic leadership and guidance to further enhance the impact of the Fund's initiatives.
Andrew Seager
Deputy Chair, PPGF UK and Vice Chair of The Access to Justice Foundation
Andrew has over 25 years experience working in the charity sector, the majority of which involved volunteering and working for the Citizens Advice service in England and Wales. Qualified from the Institute of Fundraising, he has a wide-range of fundraising experience and cares passionately about the sustainability of the voluntary sector with a particular focus on smaller grass-roots organisations. Alongside his role at PPGF UK, he is also vice chair of The Access to Justice Foundation.
Amit Ghosh
Founder, Prepare for Go Live
Amit is the founder of Prepare for Go Live Limited, a management consultancy that specializes in business transformation projects across the UK and Europe. He has extensive experience in consulting in various sectors, including financial services, utilities, manufacturing, and retail. His expertise includes project management, fostering senior-level relationships, and understanding the connections between business and technology.
Dave Jones
Head of UK Consumer at PayPal
Dave has over 15 years experience working in payments and financial services, the majority of which has been with Barclays Bank UK. Dave joined PayPal in February ’25 having previously been Head of Cards at Barclays. Dave has a Masters in Banking Practice and Management from the London Institute of Banking and Finance, as well as an undergraduate degree from Manchester University, where he studied to be a glaciologist.
Simon Bladon
Chief Executive Officer, PayPal UK
Simon was named Chief Executive Officer of PayPal UK in 2024, following more than two decades at Barclays. He also serves on the PayPal Giving Fund's Board of Trustees and was appointed to the Steering Board for Delivery Company responsible for the new UK Payments Infrastructure. At Barclays (2004–2024), Simon held senior roles across strategy, legal, operations, and digital transformation, including Managing Director of Customer & Digital and Group Strategy. Earlier, he practiced as a financial markets solicitor at Linklaters across London, São Paulo, and Madrid. He holds an LLB from the University of Nottingham.
Sukhraj Singh Dhadwar
Group CFO, Institute of Physics
Sukhraj is a qualified accountant with over 20 years' financial management experience in plc, charities and high growth SMEs in the commercial sector. He is Group Chief Financial Officer at the Institute of Physics and serves as member of the Finance Committee at the Biochemical Society, member of the Group Nominations and Remuneration Committee at Peabody Group and is a board member at Rosebery Housing Association.
Our relationship
with PayPal
Harnessing PayPal’s platform for good
PayPal Giving Fund UK (“PPGF UK”) is a registered charity in England and Wales (registered charity number 1110538). We are regulated by the Charity Commission and are set up with a wide remit, allowing us to support any activity classed as charitable under English rules. PPGF UK has its own board of directors, who are the charity trustees and who oversee the management of PPGF UK. At least half the board directors are independent of PayPal.
PPGF UK is a subsidiary of PayPal Charitable Giving Fund (“PPGF US”), a US registered section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. PPGF US appoints the PPGF UK board, but the PPGF UK directors are under a duty to make decisions independently and act in the best interests of PPGF UK.
PayPal, Inc. a listed US company, provides grant funding to PPGF US in support of its charitable mission, and appoints PPGF US board members. PayPal Inc also provides PPGF US with technical and managerial support.
PPGF US provides a range of in-kind support to PPGF UK such as the use of office space and transaction processing; and also gives grant funding to PPGF UK. We use this funding to cover PPGF UK operating costs, including the employment costs of PayPal staff in the UK who are formally seconded to us from PayPal, Inc. to carry out PPGF UK work. Where staff are seconded to us, they remain employed by PayPal but are line managed within PPGF UK. PPGF UK reimburses PayPal accordingly. The PPGF UK directors ensure that this represents good value for PPGF UK as an independent charity.
This approach has been designed in accordance with PPGF UK’s regulatory requirements and in particular the Charity Commission guidance on charities working with non-charities.
If you have any questions about how we work with PPGF US and PayPal Inc, please contact us.