About this speaker
Gavin established The Share Foundation (www.sharefound.org), the registered charity which operates the DfE’s Junior ISA & Child Trust Fund arrangements for young people in care, in 2005. Using data submitted by local authorities under Statutory Guidance legislation it has benefited over 165,000 young people throughout the United Kingdom to date, and has introduced the highly scalable ‘Stepladder of Achievement’ programme for Looked-After 15-17 year-olds, based on incentivised learning. Gavin was awarded the OBE in respect of these services for children and young people in 2018.
The Share Foundation is now also undertaking a major recovery campaign for the Child Trust Fund throughout the UK through its search facility https://findCTF.sharefound.org developed in conjunction with HMRC.
He was chairman and controlling shareholder of Share plc and The Share Centre (www.share.com), the retail stockbroker which provides investment and trading services for over 300,000 personal investors, employees and shareholders, until July 2020,when it merged with Interactive Investor (of which he is now a director). A partner with Wedd Durlacher Mordaunt before the 1986 re-organisation of the London Stock Exchange, Gavin founded Barclayshare (now Barclays Stockbrokers) in 1985, before leaving in 1990 to start The Share Centre.
In 2014 he established Share Radio (www.shareradio.co.uk), which broadcasted on DAB digital radio from November 2014 to May 2017 and is now wholly online. Its purpose is to help people to become more confident with handling money and investments.
From 1995 to date he has been an elected lay member of the General Synod for the Oxford Diocese. He was a Church Commissioner and a member of its Assets Committee until December 2018, serving also on the Ethical Investment Advisory Group and the Church Urban Fund. He has also been closely involved in development of the Church of England’s community action website content.
Gavin Oldham was also a trustee of pfeg (www.pfeg.org), the Personal Finance Education Group from 2003 to 2014, until it merged into Young Enterprise