Sandra Bruce-Gordon

Sandra is our Director & Chief Executive. She works with our trustees to lead the charity's strategy and vision. Sandra has worked on the development of cultural services for the past 20 years. Starting her career in theatre management, she latterly ran her own consultancy business. Sandra was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2018 for her work preserving cultural venues. She has a keen interest in arts in dementia care and in how arts can help to tackle loneliness.

Thomas Walshaw

Thomas is our Communications & Development Manager. He leads on the look, feel, and message of what we do both online and offline as our webmaster, copywriter, social media manager, in-house designer, and events organiser. When he's not busy writing blogs and breaking news, Thomas is probably inviting you to one of our exciting project launches or fundraising events.

Janet Bates

Janet is one of our Relationship & Development Managers. She helps to develop our strategic partnerships at a national level and to deliver funded projects at ground level. Janet is a practising artist and graduated in 2010 with a BA in Fine Art after working in publishing for over 20 years.

Dominic Harbour

Dominic is one of our Relationship & Development Managers. He helps to develop our strategic partnerships at a national level and to deliver funded projects at ground level. His career as a Curator and Arts Administrator includes partnerships with Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage and The Foreign Office, plus many museums, galleries and health organisations.

Nina Klaff

Nina is our Communications Assistant. She keeps you up to date with the work we do by writing blogs for our website and creating content for our socials. Nina is a photographer and writer with a Master of Design from the Glasgow School of Art. She works at Coventry University as Research Assistant and Communications Officer when she’s not with us.

Lucinda Nascimento

Lucinda is our Administrator. She supports the smooth running of our office and helps to manage company correspondence, billing, schedules, and system optimisation. Lucinda has extensive experience in the third sector previously working in various supporter care roles. She is passionate about the positive effect that charities have in people’s lives. Lucinda is also quite outdoorsy and had a stint in horticulture whilst working in a garden centre for a year.

Margaret Proudfoot

Margaret is our Collection Technician and a practising artist. She helps to monitor and maintain the artworks in our collection, preparing them for loan and display. She supports our teams around the UK sharing her extensive knowledge and oversees the technical aspects of our exhibition programme.

Kath Threlkeld

Kath is our Freelance Commissioner. She works closely with CCGs (Clinical Commissioning Groups) and other health and social care providers to facilitate the provision of high quality arts interventions. Kath comes from a background of project management, publishing and marketing. After retraining as an Occupational Therapist, she spent some time in acute settings, before merging her skill sets to undertake freelance or contract charity development work.

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