Victoria Hartley
Associate Director

Victoria joined SMART (as was) in 2004 and specialises in corporate community involvement and cross sector partnerships. With experience of both strategy development and hands on implementation, Victoria has worked with clients including CAT UK, Vodafone UK Foundation, and Masterfoods to ensure their community programmes bring value to the business, their stakeholders, and the community.
Victoria was part of the SMART team which published the leading edge research on Corporate Foundations, and has carried out strategic reviews for a number of corporate foundations including Vodafone Group, Whitbread, Camelot and HBOS. She has also led the development of SMART’s environmental service ClimateSMART.
Before joining, Victoria spent 6 months working with government, business and key individuals on a range of community projects in South Africa. Prior to that she was Community Affairs Project Manager for Microsoft UK, and managed key elements of Microsoft’s partnership with the NSPCC. Victoria graduated from Liverpool University in 1997 and holds a Masters in Youth Justice and Applied Criminology.