Catherine Holtzhausen is the Chairperson of the Academy Council of Stamford Welland Academy. She is currently the Business Development Manager for a sight loss charity in London. Catherine co-founded the first free debt counselling centre in South Africa in 2000. She started Funding Solutions in 2011 – a fundraising consultancy that coached NPO Directors and Fundraisers in the joyful art of shifting money from those who have it, to those who need it. She qualified as a teacher in Cape Town in 1993, specialising in Xhosa, one of the major African languages in South Africa and also the mother tongue of Nelson Mandela.