Joanne Challis is the Trust Manager for the Charles S French Charitable Trust. Having qualified as a Chartered accountant in 2004, Joanne continued to work in a Loughton based audit and accountancy practice, where she specialised in the charity and not-for-profit sector. Joanne left full time audit work in 2012 and since that time has continued to work in various employee and consultant roles for registered charities. Joanne was also a founding Trustee for a local elderly support charity and continues her own voluntary work in this sector in her spare time.