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  • PRESS RELEASE : Three Trustees reappointed to the National Portrait Gallery

    PRESS RELEASE : Three Trustees reappointed to the National Portrait Gallery

    The press release issued by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

    Marcus Harling

    Reappointed for a 4 year term commencing 01 November 2022.

    Marcus Harling brings a wide range of experience in the procurement and delivery of development projects of all types. As a lawyer, Marcus has advised clients including The Crown Estate, The UK Atomic Energy Authority  and The Greater London Authority on the delivery of development and infrastructure projects.

    Marcus is a Non-Executive Member of the Sponsor Board for the Norman Shaw North project, at the Palace of Westminster, Partner in law firm Burges Salmon and provides consultancy to public and private sector organisations on construction, infrastructure and regeneration projects. With a track record of advising arts and heritage projects, Marcus has taken an active role in supporting the current redevelopment of The National Portrait Gallery.

    Marcus is a member of the National Portrait Gallery Audit and Risk Sub-Committee and Inspiring People Project Board.

    Professor Shearer West

    Reappointed for a 4 year term commencing 01 November 2022.

    Professor Shearer West, CBE is Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Nottingham.

    She has held a number of significant leadership roles in higher education, including Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, Head of the Humanities Division at Oxford University and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield.  She was also Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council where she chaired the Research Directors Group for Research Councils UK (now UKRI).

    She is a Professor of Art History and has authored and edited many articles and nine books including Portraiture; The visual arts in Germany 1897-1940; and Fin de Siècle: Art and society in an age of uncertainty. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society, and has held two visiting Fellowships at Yale University.  She was awarded a CBE in the 2021 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

    Shearer also has held a number of international research roles, including acting as main panel chair for the Norwegian research assessment exercise for Humanities, representing the UK on the Science Europe Humanities Scientific Committee, and acting as jurist for the Spinoza Prize in the Netherlands and the Odysseus and Solvay prizes in Belgium.

    Jonathan Yeo

    Reappointed for a 4 year term commencing 01 November 2022.

    Jonathan Yeo (b. London 1970) is one of the world’s leading portraitists and has exhibited widely in both the UK and abroad. His sitters include such diverse figures as Sir David Attenborough, Malala Yousafzai, Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry, Idris Elba, Nicole Kidman, Baroness Lawrence, Tony Blair and The Duke of Edinburgh. Known for both traditional and experimental portraiture, his work has been the subject of mid-career surveys at the Museum of National History in Denmark (2016), the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle (2014-15), the Lowry in Greater Manchester (2014) and the National Portrait Gallery in London (2013). In 2018, Yeo exhibited a series of works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London all derived from new technologies, including the first bronze sculpture to be made using an innovative combination of processes, including 3D scanning, virtual reality and 3D printing. Other recent projects include collaborations with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC and The Bowes Museum in County Durham. In 2018 he was named Artist of the Year by GQ Magazine.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery are not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Marcus Harling, Professor Shearer West and Jonathan Yeo have not declared any significant political activity.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Joanne Prowse reappointed to the Charity Commission Board

    PRESS RELEASE : Joanne Prowse reappointed to the Charity Commission Board

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

    The Secretary of State has reappointed Joanne Prowse for a term of 15 months and 17 days, commencing 14 November 2022 until 1 March 2024.

    Joanne Prowse

    Joanne Prowse joined the Charity Commission Board in November 2019. She chairs the Remuneration and Appointments Committee.

    Jo is the Chief Executive and a Board member of the Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA), the UK regulator for content, goods and services charged to a phone bill. Jo has extensive leadership experience in strategy execution, policy development, operations, consumer protection, stakeholder management and organisational change in the regulatory, not-for-profit, digital, and commercial sectors.

    She was previously the Director of Operations and IT at PSA. Jo has held senior roles at PRS for Music, the music copyright, licensing, and royalty distribution organisation, culminating as Managing Director for Membership and Operations with previous appointments of Executive Director for Membership and of Communications Director.

    Jo has a BSc in Music from City University, a Master of Business Administration from the Open University, and a Diploma in Music Performance from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Current voluntary roles include Committee member of Chorleywood Music and producer of the Rickmansworth Young Musician of the Year Competition.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Charity Commission board members are remunerated £350 per day for approximately 24 days per year. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Joanne Prowse has declared no activity.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Pippa Britton appointed as Charity Commission Wales Board Member

    PRESS RELEASE : Pippa Britton appointed as Charity Commission Wales Board Member

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

    Pippa Britton

    Pippa Britton is a double Paralympian who competed on the GB archery team for 15 years and who represented the Welsh able-bodied team on more than 20 occasions. She achieved podium places at 6 consecutive World Championships and 24 International events and gained 11 world records along the way.

    Whilst competing she became the first para-archery athlete committee member at World Archery, representing archers all over the world, and after retiring from competing was inspired by this to move into governance. She is currently the Vice Chair of Sport Wales and of Aneurin Bevan UHB and sits on the Board of the British Paralympic Association.

    She has previously been Vice Chair of UK Anti-Doping, where she was chair of the Audit and Risk committee and has held a number of voluntary roles, from Chair of Disability Sport Wales, Archery GB Board member, Wheelchair Advisory Group at International Rugby League and International Paralympic Committee Anti Doping Committee member. She is currently a trustee at UWC Atlantic College.

    She uses her lived and professional experience to contribute towards her passion of improving equity and inclusion, all with well-being and fairness at the heart.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Charity Commission board members are remunerated £350 per day for approximately 24 days per year. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Pippa Britton has declared no activity.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Birmingham 2022 gives nation a cause for celebration

    PRESS RELEASE : Birmingham 2022 gives nation a cause for celebration

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

    • 8 in 10 people think major UK events including Birmingham 2022 give people an opportunity to celebrate
    • Record 1.5m spectators bought tickets for events across the West Midlands
    • Stats on Games participation, job creation and legacy projects show lasting impact on local communities

    Nearly half the UK tuned in or turned up to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, new polling shows, with eight in 10 people saying it gave the country the chance to celebrate.

    The findings, in a survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of DCMS, means the Games – delivered in record time – drew an estimated overall UK audience on TV, online and in person of more than 20 million. Birmingham 2022 also drew an estimated global TV audience of hundreds of millions as the city shone on the world stage.

    The survey also reveals that two in three people from Birmingham and the surrounding area engaged with the Games, with a quarter of those polled saying they turned out to watch the Queen’s Baton Relay as it travelled through the city.

    The statistics are published today in a new report Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: The Highlights which shows the positive benefits the event has had on sport and cultural participation, job creation and the regional economy.

    Nigel Huddleston, Minister for the Commonwealth Games, said:

    These results really underline that Birmingham 2022 was more than just the 11 days of fantastic sport. The West Midlands and the UK really got behind Birmingham 2022 and recaptured that 2012 spirit, giving the whole country the opportunity to come together and celebrate our amazing athletes.

    The legacy of the Games has only begun, and I can’t wait to see the region continue to reap the economic, cultural and social benefits from delivering a showstopper summer.

    Ian Reid, CEO of Birmingham 2022, said:

    These results are testament to a lot of hard work by an incredibly dedicated team. Birmingham and the West Midlands did itself proud and there was a real feeling of renewed opportunity right across the city and region. Venues were packed, spectators had a fantastic experience, and local businesses felt the real-time economic benefits as tills were ringing thanks to increased visitor numbers. The legacy of these Games is just getting started and these results demonstrate the positive impact and benefits that major events deliver.

    A record 1.5 million spectators bought tickets for the event, making it the most popular Commonwealth Games ever to be hosted in the UK. More than 5 million people came to Birmingham city centre during the two-week period of the Games – a 200% increase on the same period in 2021. Millions more followed on TV and online. The opening ceremony attracted 5.2 million viewers and a total of 28.6 million tuned into the Games on the BBC. The event was also streamed 57.1 million times on the BBC – a record for a Commonwealth Games.

    Dame Louise Martin DBE, President of the Commonwealth Games Federation, said:

    Birmingham 2022 was a spectacular Games that has set a new benchmark for Commonwealth sport. It was the first to award more medals to women than men, had the largest ever integrated para programme and was the most sustainable Commonwealth Games ever hosted.

    Along with special sporting moments, Birmingham 2022 will also be remembered for the way the people of Birmingham embraced the Games, creating a welcoming, electric atmosphere that inspired our Commonwealth athletes to reach new heights.

    Importantly, the Games will also leave a lasting legacy, having accelerated regeneration, created jobs and skills opportunities and been a catalyst for investment to help those who need the most support to get physically active.

    The significant core public investment in the Games of £778 million has accelerated investment and regeneration in Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond. Alexander Stadium was transformed for the Games and communities, and Sandwell Aquatics Centre is providing elite and community swimmers and divers with a brand new, world-class facility.

    The event also created 40,000 jobs and skills opportunities for local people, including 14,000 volunteer positions. A dedicated Jobs and Skills Academy invested over £10 million to train unemployed residents to take advantage of the Games-time roles. Six in 10 people from Birmingham and Sandwell said the Games has had a positive economic impact on the area, by supporting the local economy and raising its profile in the UK and abroad.

    Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, said:

    As I reflect on the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, I can honestly say I’ve never felt prouder to be from the West Midlands. This summer’s spectacle must represent a starting point and not a finish line. I want to see a lasting legacy for the people of the West Midlands for generations to come and it’s already clear that there is immense potential to deliver just that.

    We brought communities together in a moment of collective celebration, we upskilled thousands of local residents, we doubled our pipeline of inward investment leads, and – with Sandwell Aquatics Centre and the revamped Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr – we’re providing a tangible legacy for future sporting superstars.

    It’s great news that Games sporting equipment will now be shared free of charge with local grassroots organisations and I look forward to seeing much more good news in the weeks, months and years ahead.

    The Games has amplified ongoing investments in Perry Barr, including the refurbishment of the train station, wider transport improvements and the creation of up to 5,000 new homes supported by a £150 million investment by the government.

    This public investment has also helped to unlock over £85 million additional funding from a range of public and third sector bodies including a £35 million investment from Sport England to deliver a physical activity legacy. As part of this work, a wide range of sports equipment used by teams and athletes during the Commonwealth Games from boxing gloves to martial arts mats and basketballs will be gifted to local sports groups and clubs across the West Midlands.

    Cllr Ian Ward, Leader of Birmingham City Council, said:

    This is precisely why I championed bringing the Games to Birmingham for so long. When people questioned whether we could afford to host the Commonwealth Games, I was always convinced that we simply couldn’t afford not to do it.

    The Games were about so much more than 11 days of world-class sport. They delivered homes, jobs, transport improvements, cultural opportunities and a collective sense of pride.

    The people, communities and businesses of Birmingham rose brilliantly to the challenge and together we hosted an unforgettable festival of sport, culture, hospitality, and sheer unbridled enjoyment.

    Tim Hollingsworth, CEO of Sport England, said:

    The Games were a wonderful platform to create lasting impact in communities across the country – bringing us together through sport, culture, community and friendship.

    Sport England’s ‘Uniting the Movement’ strategy takes a long-term approach to challenges with activity levels – including tackling the deep-rooted inequalities that prevent some people from taking part in sport and activity. Our £35million investment into the Games targeted support to where it’s most needed, in order to create inclusive opportunities for people to come together and get active in their communities – now and for years into the future.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Baroness Sanderson to help develop new public libraries strategy

    PRESS RELEASE : Baroness Sanderson to help develop new public libraries strategy

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 2 September 2022.

    Baroness Elizabeth Sanderson of Welton has been appointed by the Government to help develop a new strategy to make sure public libraries are providing the best possible service for their communities.

    Libraries provide a vital service and the strategy will help establish ways in which they can improve to meet the needs of people in their area.

    Baroness Sanderson is an experienced former journalist and government adviser who joined the Government benches in the House of Lords in 2019.

    She has been appointed as the independent chair of a new advisory panel and will be expected to provide a fresh, challenging and impartial perspective on libraries to help formulate innovative new policy ideas.

    Through the autumn and winter she will lead a number of sessions with the advisory panel of contributors who will be drawn from the library sector and beyond. Participants in the panel sessions will be confirmed in due course.

    All sessions will be attended by representatives from Arts Council England, Libraries Connected, and the cross-party Local Government Association.

    The sessions will help gather information to inspire a set of recommendations which will form part of a new government public libraries strategy for 2023, succeeding the previous strategy which came into force in 2016.

    Input into the development of the recommendations will also come from the British Library, local authority library services and community-managed libraries, as well as other government departments, to bring in a wide range of views and insights.

    Libraries Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said:

    Libraries have a unique and precious role in communities across the country — something which was thrown into relief during the pandemic. As we bounce back from that, we want to make sure we are drawing on a wide range of expertise and best practice to give them the support they need to keep serving the public so well.

    Baroness Sanderson and the panel of expert and outside voices will help us achieve this and I look forward to seeing the recommendations they put forward.

    Baroness Sanderson said:

    I’m thrilled to be taking up this new role. Libraries play such an important part in our lives, be that instilling a love of reading in childhood or encouraging economic, social and mental wellbeing throughout adulthood and into old age.

    Too often undervalued, they are one of the most critical forms of social infrastructure we have and I look forward to working alongside the experts, and listening to a wide range of voices, so that we may help develop ideas as to how we may promote and protect our libraries into the future.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Kate Grimley Evans appointed to the ACNRA

    PRESS RELEASE : Kate Grimley Evans appointed to the ACNRA

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 31 August 2022.

    The Secretary of State has appointed Kate Grimley Evans to the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives (ACNRA) for 3 years.

    Kate Grimley Evans

    Appointed from 15 September 2022 until 14 September 2025.

    Kate is a solicitor who specialises in Data Protection and Freedom of Information. She was previously Head of Information Law at a large law firm and now practises on a consultancy basis, most recently through the law firms Kesteven Partners and Bates Wells. Kate is also the Managing Director of her own company which specialises in information law training and compliance audits. In April 2020, Kate was appointed as a judicial office holder, carrying out a part time role as a Fee Paid Member of the Upper Tribunal assigned to the Administrative Appeals Chamber (Information Rights Jurisdiction) and First Tier Tribunal General Regulatory Chamber (Information Rights Jurisdiction). Kate qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and started practising in the area of information law in 2011. Since then, she has acted for a wide range of clients with a focus on the charity and education sectors. She is the author of the leading guidance on data protection and information law matters for the museum sector.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Members of the ACNRA are offered remuneration of £386 per day. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Kate Grimley Evans has not declared any significant political activity.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Helen Birchenough reappointed to Arts Council England

    PRESS RELEASE : Helen Birchenough reappointed to Arts Council England

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 31 August 2022.

    The Secretary of State has reappointed Helen Birchenough as South West Area Chair of Arts Council England for 4 years commencing 5 December 2022.

    Helen Bircheough

    Helen has always worked with creative people. Her early career was in advertising and brand development and she soon added a number of voluntary roles to her portfolio. She was a trustee and Chair of Salisbury Playhouse from 2003 – 2012 and of the Salisbury International Arts Festival from 2016. She was a key part of the team that merged these two organisations and the Salisbury Arts Centre to form Wiltshire Creative.

    Helen chaired Wiltshire College, a complex multi-site further education and higher education college through a period of transformational change. She also chaired the education grants panel for Wiltshire Community Foundation. Helen is a board advisor for Messums Wiltshire, the pioneering multi-purpose gallery and arts centre based in a 13th century tithe barn in Wiltshire and with other spaces in London and the North. She is a Deputy Lieutenant in Wiltshire.

    Helen represents ACE National Council on the Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts Panel.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Area Chairs of Arts Council England are offered remuneration of £6,400 per year. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Helen Birchenough has declared no significant political activity.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Three new Trustees appointed to The Victoria and Albert Museum

    PRESS RELEASE : Three new Trustees appointed to The Victoria and Albert Museum

    The press release issued by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 31 August 2022.

    The Prime Minister has appointed Professor Rosalind Blakesley, Rusty Elvidge and Zewditu Gebreyohanes as Trustees of The Victoria and Albert Museum.

    Professor Polly Blakesley

    Appointed for a four year term commencing 05 September 2022

    Rosalind Polly Blakesley is Professor of Russian and European Art at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and co-founder of the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre. A Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Trustee of the Samuel Courtauld Trust, she has also served on the boards of the National Portrait Gallery, Kettle’s Yard and the Hamilton Kerr Institute. Exhibitions she has worked on include An Imperial Collection at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; International Arts and Crafts at the V&A; and Russia and the Arts at the National Portrait Gallery, part of a groundbreaking exchange with the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Awards include the Pushkin Medal and, for her book, The Russian Canvas, the Art Newspaper Russia Best Book Award and the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. She is now working on the research project Russia, Empire and the Baltic Imagination, supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.

    Rusty Elvidge

    Appointed for a four year term commencing 05 September 2022

    Rusty has been a collector since he was at Bristol University and used to buy antique silver and jewellery at auction rooms and fairs in the West Country. He has also collected Regency furniture, English watercolours and over the last 20 years paintings by the Bloomsbury set, Modern British artists, as well as Contemporary Art and Pottery. He lives in a Grade 1 listed house which he has restored. Rusty has worked in finance all his career: at Salomon Brothers on the trading floor, then at Credit Suisse heading the global foreign exchange business, and over the last decade has been on the the Private Banking side as financial adviser to some of the most successful UK based entrepreneurs. Rusty has worked in Japan, Switzerland and the US, though predominantly in the UK where he is based full time.

    Zewditu Gebreyohanes

    Appointed for a four year term commencing 05 September 2022

    Zewditu Gebreyohanes is the Director of Restore Trust and Executive Editor of History Reclaimed. She was formerly Head of the History Matters unit at Policy Exchange. In 2020 Zewditu served on the government commission for housing and architecture ‘Building Better, Building Beautiful’ as an assistant to its Chair, the late Professor Sir Roger Scruton. She graduated from King’s College London in 2020 with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum are not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Professor Blakesley and Rusty Elvidge did not declare any political activity. Zewditu Gebreyohanes declared having canvassed for the Conservative party within the last five years.

  • PRESS RELEASE : The Secretary of State has reappointed Pippa Shirley to RCEWA

    PRESS RELEASE : The Secretary of State has reappointed Pippa Shirley to RCEWA

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 31 August 2022.

    Pippa Shirley has been reappointed as a member of The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA).

    Pippa Shirley

    Reappointed for a four year term commencing 15 October 2022.

    Pippa is the Director of Waddesdon Manor. She read History at Oxford before an MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London. Pippa worked in publishing as a Commissioning Editor for the Grove Dictionary of Art, then went to the British Museum as a curator in the then Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities.

    In 1992 she moved to the Victoria & Albert Museum as a curator in the Metalwork, Silver and Jewellery Department, specialising in decorative ironwork and English and continental silver, working on three major gallery projects to redisplay the National Collections of ironwork and silver.

    In 2000 she came to Waddesdon as Head of Collections, leading the curatorial team responsible for the contents of one of the most important National Trust properties in the country, home to a spectacular ensemble of continental decorative arts and English, French and Netherlandish paintings created by four generations of the Rothschild family. In 2015 oversight of the Gardens was added to her role, and she was made Director in 2022. The Manor is managed on behalf of the National Trust by a charitable trust, The Rothschild Foundation, under the chairmanship of Lord Rothschild. She has published and lectured on a range of subjects, including the history of collecting. She also represents Waddesdon across different media channels for both press and marketing and in her directorial and curatorial role.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Trustees of the RCEWA are not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Pippa Shirley has not declared any significant political activity.

  • PRESS RELEASE : Michael Salter-Church MBE appointed Chair of the Horniman Museum & Gardens

    PRESS RELEASE : Michael Salter-Church MBE appointed Chair of the Horniman Museum & Gardens

    The press release issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 31 August 2022.

    Michael Salter-Church MBE

    Michael is an elected member of the Council of the National Trust, the UK’s largest charity for environmental and heritage conservation, and Director of External Affairs, Policy & Sustainability at Openreach Ltd.

    He founded the Community Interest Company that organised London’s LGBTQ+ Pride event 2013-2022, turning it into the capital’s third largest annual event. He accepted the Queen’s Award for Voluntary service on behalf of the volunteers who ran Pride in London. Michael has served on a number of organising, advisory and fundraising committees, including Action for Children, the Terrence Higgins Trust and National Student Pride.

    He was a special advisor in 10 Downing Street until 2015, leading on broadcasting he was also the principal advisor on equal marriage. He moved to lead public affairs work at J Sainsbury’s plc before joining the team at Openreach, where he is also the senior sponsor of an employee network.

    He is a member of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and lives with his husband and two cats near the Horniman Museum and Gardens.

    Remuneration and Governance Code

    Trustees of the Horniman Museum are not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Michael Salter-Church MBE has not declared any significant political activity in the last five years, he was a Special advisor in 10 Downing Street until 2015.