About Dartington

Introduction
Aims of the Trust
Annual Review
Charity details
Newsletters
Privacy policy
Senior management
Trustees
About the founders
Key people and events
Programmes of work

Senior executive staff

	Vaughan Lindsay Chief Executive Officer
	Adam Powell General Manager Dartington Accommodation and Catering Services
	Mark Howell Director of Finance and Resources
	Joanne Talling Property Director Property Management
	John Stainton Managing Director Dartington Trading Company (Cider Press Centre)
	Celia Atherton Director Research in Practice
	Charlie McConnell Director of Sustainability
	David Francis Director of The Arts at Dartington

Charity and company details

The Dartington Hall Trust is a company limited by guarantee, company number 1485560, and a charity, registered in England, charity number 279756.

Registered office:

The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon. TQ9 6EL

Auditors

Elliot Bunker Limited

Investment Managers

GAM (Global Asset Management London Ltd)

Bankers

Barclays Bank

Board of Trustees

Sir David Green (Chairman)

David was appointed as Chair of Trustees in December 2007. He has been Director-General of the British Council, the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations, since July 1999. Under his leadership, the British Council has focused on reaching younger audiences and on nurturing relationships between the UK and those with the potential to become future decision-makers. It has also embarked on an ambitious project of building a network of state-of-the-art IT-based Knowledge and Learning Centres in fifty of the world’s major cities.

Kate Caddy

Serving as a Trustee since 1992, Kate is granddaughter of Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst and daughter of Ruth and Maurice Ash. During her career Kate was a concert manager, and lived in London for many years. Kate also serves as a Director on the DACS and Cider Press Centre Boards and until recently Chaired the Estate Council.

James Cornford

James joined the Trustees in 1998, and served as Chairman from September 2001 until December 2007. He has a long association with Dartington, having been at the School as a child. As well as his work for the Trust, James is Chairman of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, and a Trustee of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, Elm Farm Research Centre, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs and of the Institute of Community Studies.

Gay Cranmer

Gay became a Trustee in 1995.

A writer, teacher and psychotherapist, Gay teaches at Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies and at the Karuna Institute near Newton Abbot. A Trustee of Schumacher College Foundation, Gay helps to raise funds for Schumacher College. She writes and teaches under her maiden name of Watson and lives locally.

Liz Firth

Appointed a Trustee in December 2004, Liz Firth was until the end of 2004 Grants Director for Comic Relief, which makes grants of around £40 million a year to charities tackling poverty and social injustice. During her time with Comic Relief, she had overall responsibility for the impact, quality and accountability of all Comic Relief’s grant-making in the UK and internationally.

Sir Nicholas Kenyon

Appointed a Trustee in December 2004, Nicholas is currently Director of the Barbican Centre. Formerly controller of BBC Proms, prior to this he was controller of BBC Radio 3. He worked for the English Bach Festival and the BBC Music Department, as well as working as a freelance writer on music, and was a music critic on The New Yorker from 1979 to 1982. In 2001 he was award a CBE for his services to music and millennium broadcasting.

Patricia Williams

Appointed a Trustee in December 2007, Patricia has had a long and distinguished career in academia and international publishing. A former Fellow of Darwin College Cambridge, member of the Franco British Council, the first Publisher at The National Gallery and a member of the advisory boards of Waddesdon Manor and Princeton University Press.

Peter Mather

Appointed in March 2008, Peter is Head of Country, UK and Vice President, Europe Region for BP. Peter’s responsibilities cover a broad area including government and public affairs, communications, compliance, crisis management and social investment for the UK. Peter is a Board member of the Energy Saving Trust, a council member of the Council for Industry and Higher Education, a council member of the Energy Institute, and a non-executive director of Blue Giraffe Press Ltd.