The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced the appointment of three new trustees to the AHF Board: Greg Pickup, Carole-Anne Davies and Neal Shasore.
… add significant experience to the AHF Board across a range of areas…
… new insights to the charity’s work – from grassroots insight into heritage led regeneration…
The AHF writes:
We are pleased to announce the appointment of three new trustees to the AHF Board. The new appointments are Greg Pickup, Carole-Anne Davies and Neal Shasore. The three add significant experience to the AHF Board across a range of areas and will help provide new perspectives to the strategic development and governance of the charity.
Welcoming the new appointments, Liz Peace, the AHF’s Chair, commented:
“These are excellent new appointments for the AHF. It was a strong field of applicants to choose from, and the three new trustees will add a range of interesting new insights to the charity’s work – from grassroots insight into heritage led regeneration, to the architectural and social history of the buildings we help fund. I am looking forward to working with all three over the coming months and years.”
Neal Shasore
Neal is an architectural historian and currently honorary Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB). Neal is a Departmental Lecturer in the History of Art Department at the University of Oxford, having been based previously at Liverpool School of Architecture. In addition, Neal is a trustee of the 20th Century Society (C20).
”I’m thrilled to join the Architectural Heritage Fund as a trustee. I admire the social focus of the AHF’s work, its desire to promote values of sustainability, and I’m particularly excited by the organisation’s commitment to diversity in its funding programme. I hope to forge meaningful links between the heritage world and the widening range of academic work in architectural history during my period of service.“
Carole-Anne Davies
Carole-Anne is the new AHF trustee for Wales. She is currently the Chief Executive of the Design Commission for Wales, the national champion for good design in the built environment. She has significant experience in founding and running charities and not for profit companies as well as holding board and trustee positions with significant governance, fiduciary and financial responsibilities. In the past few years she also helped create a new charitable trust to take ownership of an important mid-Wales estate at Gregynog.
“Our built heritage is a reminder of our culture, our history and our achievements – not only what we once were, but what we can be. Its vital that our heritage not only survives but that it thrives through new ideas that bring new life and new enterprise. I am delighted to be able to play a small part in supporting that by contributing to the unique approach of the AHF which has seen them make such a huge difference for so many years. I can’t wait!”
Greg Pickup
Greg is currently the CEO of Heritage Lincolnshire, an organisation AHF has worked with on a number of projects across the county. Greg’s background is in funding, having worked for the National Lottery Heritage Fund for nearly six years, before going on to manage the £20m Derby Enterprise Growth Fund. Following this, Greg had a successful career as an independent consultant, during which time he has raised funding towards and successfully managed a range of heritage and community-led projects.
“I am fortunate to have seen first hand how AHF funding has helped rescue our nation’s incredible heritage, from its pioneering support for the 1979 purchase of Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mills, to recent funding for Heritage Lincolnshire to breathe new life into the 16th Century coaching inn The Old King’s Head. I’m honoured and incredibly excited to join AHF’s board and support its mission; giving hope to diverse communities across the UK that we can all play a part in saving our precious historic buildings.”
