WHAT’S ON VISIT SHOP ⌕ ◐ Ⓣ Team Harry Hoblyn, gardener at Charleston; photograph: Lewis Ronald Nathaniel Hepburn, Director and Chief Executive CURATORIAL Darren Clarke, Head of Collections, Research and Exhibitions Kathy Crisp, Conservation Cleaner Emily Hill, House, Collection and Exhibition Manager Harry Hoblyn, Head Gardener Edward Illife, Curatorial and Exhibitions Assistant PROGRAMME AND EVENTS Ross Drury, Duty Events Manager Ziggy Jamieson-Franks, Events Assistant Jemma Paterson, Event Manager Melissa Perkins, Head of Programme and Events Susannah Stevenson, Artistic Director: Charleston Festival, Small Wonder Festival and Literary Programmes DEVELOPMENT Vicky Funnell, Development Manager: Individual Giving MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL Julia Dorrington, Marketing and Communications Manager Natalie Duff, Digital Content Manager Jennifer Grindley, Head of Marketing, Communications and Digital VISITOR EXPERIENCE AND OPERATIONS Stacy Deane, Head of Operations and Visitor Experience Vanessa Venables, Visitor and Volunteer Manager FINANCE Agnes Fouch, Finance and Administration Assistant Denise McDowell, Finance Manager Louise Zandstra, Director of Finance and Enterprises RETAIL James Thomas, Retail Manager CONTACT info@charleston.org.uk Tel +44 (0)1323 811626 PATRON HRH The Duchess of Cornwall HRH The Duchess of Cornwall became Charleston’s first Patron in May 2013. “As a supporter of the arts and a native of East Sussex, I discovered in Charleston a unique atmosphere of rural peace and creativity. For thirty years the Charleston Trust has worked to restore and maintain this special, fragile place, preserving the inspiring inheritance of Bloomsbury in Sussex”. PRESIDENT Virginia Nicholson Virginia Nicholson is a social historian and the daughter of Quentin and Anne Olivier Bell, and the granddaughter of Vanessa Bell. Her early career was as a maker of documentaries for BBC Television. She has chronicled the family in ‘Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden’. Her other books include ‘Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939’, ‘Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War’ and ‘How Was it for You? Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s’. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. TRUSTEES Pippa Harris, Chair of Trustees Pippa Harris is an Oscar nominated, Bafta award-winning, film and television producer. She established Neal Street Productions in 2003, alongside Sam Mendes and Caro Newling, and has produced the films ‘Starter for Ten’, ‘Stuart A Life Backwards’, and co-produced Jarhead. She also executive produced ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’, and the Oscar-nominated ‘Revolutionary Road’, as well as the feature documentary ‘We Are Many’. Pippa is the Executive Producer of ‘Call the Midwife’, – the most successful new BBC drama series in over ten years, as well as the multi award winning, ‘Penny Dreadful’ for Sky Atlantic, and BBC Two’s BAFTA winning, ‘The Hollow Crown’, a filmed series of Shakespeare’s History plays. Previously, Pippa was the Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC. Pippa sits on the board of BAFTA and is the Chair of their film committee. She is also a Governor of Central School of Speech and Drama, and a Trustee of The Creative Society. In 2015 Pippa was made a Dame in the Dissolution Honours. Jolyon Brewis Jolyon Brewis is currently a Partner with Grimshaw Architects LLP, an architectural practice of more than 450 staff working from 5 international offices. Jolyon was the Lead Architect from 1998 for Eden Project, Cornwall, and was also the Lead Architect for The Laboratory at Dulwich College. Jolyon is currently leading design teams on the expansion of Heathrow Airport, new Eden Project destinations in China and a technology innovation centre in London. Jolyon is also a Trustee of Wac Arts, a Hampstead-based charity providing access to performing arts training for young people. Mark Burch Mark Burch is Managing Partner of ARCIS Group, a private equity investment management firm, which he joined in 2002. His previous roles have been in lending and investment banking over more than 20 years. Mark is Chair of Governors at the University of Brighton, Chair of ArtsEd, Chiswick and Chair of Stage One, the Theatre Investment Fund. He is also Treasurer of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Marion Gibbs CBE Marion has had a long career in education, working in schools as a teacher and headteacher, for the Open University and as an HMI, before finally retiring back to Sussex. She instigated, directed and supported a number of community projects in South London, focused on the arts as well as education. A published author on educational and classical topics, in particular Greek Tragedy, Marion is passionate about the arts. She has served as a Trustee on a number of Boards in the past, including Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Arvon Foundation. Harriet Otoo Harriet Otoo is Communications Director at ViacomCBS. She has a track record of handling corporate communications for leading brands in the broadcast, technology and media sectors, including Freeview, Arqiva, Chrysalis Radio Group, CNN International, BBC Studios and FutureLearn, the UK’s first platform for free online courses from universities around the world. She was most recently Head of Communications for the PA Media Group, the parent company of PA, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland. Harriet is committed to driving professional excellence, diversity and inclusion across the Communications sector and the wider media industry. She was a judge on the 2021 CIPR Excellence Awards and a mentor in the BME PR Pros scheme with PR Week in 2020. David Pickard David Pickard has worked in the arts throughout his career, starting with positions at the Royal Opera House. He subsequently worked at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park and was the Assistant Director for the Japan Festival 1991 before becoming Sir John Drummond’s deputy at the European Arts Festival. He then worked as Chief Executive of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, General Director of Glyndebourne and since 2015 has been Director of BBC Proms. Caroline Price Caroline Price is a finance professional with extensive experience of working with arts and heritage organisations. Currently she is treasurer and trustee of the acclaimed Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and is trustee of The Dulwich Estate. She sits on the audit committee of The Courtauld, and has served as a director of its trading company. Caroline has broad and extensive business experience. She has sat on the boards of public companies, including ten years as the finance director of TBI plc, a FTSE 250 business. She is a chartered accountant and qualified with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Sarah Sergeant Sarah Sergeant is currently Group Financial Controller of Compass Group PLC, the world’s leading foodservice company, which she joined in 2007. She has significant risk management, audit and financial control expertise gained from senior finance leadership roles in the UK and in Asia Pacific, as well as strategic and operational experience across the foodservice industry. 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