Welcome to our new Trustees

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We are delighted to welcome the following seven new Trustees to our board and announce Jagdip Jagpal as our incoming Chair:

Sam Allen, Founder and Director of Creative Arts Social Consultancy Ltd.

Thahmina Begum, Community Development Worker (Health for ALL, Leeds), Mixed Media Artist and Trainee Art Psychotherapist

Iain Bennett, Director, The Fifth Sector

Kaia Charles, Senior Cultural Projects Manager (NOW Gallery and Greenwich Peninsula) at Knight Dragon Ltd

João Guarantani, Director Arts Europe, British Council

Jagdip Jagpal, International Arts & Culture Consultant

Massy Larizadeh, Non-Exec Director roles, Founder and Director at New Horizons Advisory


Representing a range of different backgrounds our new Trustees will help shape the organisation as it celebrates its 20th year and beyond! Our new recruits will join our current Trustees:

Xanthe Arvanitakis, Director of Chiswick House & Gardens Trust

Paul Augarde, award-winning placemaking consultant

David Field, cultural communications specialist

Helen Pheby, Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Peter Ratcliffe, Barrister