Helen Walker

Helen Walker is International Head of Development at The Climate Group, responsible for raising funds and managing key relationships with the charity’s Clean Revolution supporting partners, including high net worth individuals, corporations and foundations.

Helen is expert in all aspects of income generation, including corporate sponsorship, charitable foundations/trusts, donors, membership income, tenders and other commissioned work. Prior to joining The Climate Group, Helen worked in the energy sector for eight years at the UK fuel poverty charity, National Energy Action (NEA) as Income Generation and Marketing Manager. She successfully developed and implemented a Diversification of Funding Strategy to reduce NEA’s dependence on central government funding. 

In her time at NEA, Helen was instrumental in embedding an outcomes focused approach to NEA’s work to ensure that the charity demonstrated to funders the difference their support was making. With a social research background, Helen is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methods ensuring the monitoring and evaluation frameworks for funded activities are established well and reported on correctly to satisfy the needs of funders.

Helen also served as a Trustee on the ScottishPower Energy People Trust board, a trust fund established to support fuel poverty alleviation projects. Before joining NEA, Helen worked as a Policy Officer at the North East Assembly.

Helen has a degree in Sociology and Social Policy (BA Hons) and is from the North East of England.