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Summerfield Charitable Trust

A change to our board of Trustees

1/3/2016

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Following the retirement of Anthony McClaren as Trustee in October 2015, we were delighted to welcome Mr David Owen to our board of Trustees. 

​David was born and brought up in Gloucestershire, studying at Brockworth School, before gaining a degree in Business Studies from Liverpool John Moores University. He spent ten years in the North West working across the education sector and as MD of a start-up, high-growth, training business. For the last fifteen years he has worked in Gloucestershire, first as Director of Enterprise and Innovation at the University of Gloucestershire and now as Chief Executive of GFirst Local Enterprise Partnership (gfirstLEP).  He is currently a director of Gloucestershire Voluntary & Community Sector Alliance, South West Investment Group and Gloucestershire Enterprise Limited and is a member of the International Advisory Group of the Economic Development Council.  He lives in Stroud with his author wife and two daughters.

David attended his first meeting as Trustee in February. This also gave him the opportunity to me our team of Advisers. 
LINK: gfirstLEP website
Summerfield Charitable Trust trustees Edward Gillespie, Kate Hicks Beach, David Owen, James Millar
Summerfield Trustees from Left-Right: Edward Gillespie OBE, Kate Hicks Beach, David Owen and James Millar.
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Summerfield Trustees with some members of the team of advisers, February 2016.
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#Gloucestershire_Dance benefits from 2012 #Summerfield_Trust grant

18/11/2013

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Summerfield Trust grant to Gloucestershire Dance performance by Roses Youth Theatre members October 2013Performance of 'Stuck in the Mud', October 2013.
We gave Gloucestershire Dance a grant of £20,000 in November 2012 to help develop a partnership with the Roses Youth Theatre in Tewkesbury. 

Gloucestershire Dance is a production and training company specialising in inclusive practice.  With their partners they aim to effect real change and address barriers to participation in the arts sector.

The photo is of Roses Youth Theatre members performing in a production of 'Stuck in the Mud' at Blackfriars Priory in Gloucester in October 2013. The event was attended by Vanessa Arbuthnott and Lavinia Sidgwick from the Summerfield Trust who both found it thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining.


LINKS:  Gloucestershire Dance and Roses Youth Theatre

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Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum renamed The Wilson

18/9/2013

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Summerfield Trust News Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum renamed the Wilson
The new Logo
Cheltenham's Museum and Art Gallery is to be rebranded as The Wilson.

The building in Clarence Street is due to re-open on 5 October following a £6.3m refurbishment over the past 18 months. The Summerfield Trust awarded a special one-off grant of £750,000 in 2009 towards the cost of the project.

The new name is inspired by explorer Dr Edward Wilson, who was born in the town and who died on Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1912.  

The Trustees visited the site on 12th September to view the progress of the building works and the new Summerfield Gallery.  
Summerfield Trust news Trustees visit The Summerfield Gallery Jane Lillystone Anthony McClaran James Millar Edward Gillespie
Left to Right: Jane Lillystone, Museum Arts & Tourism Manager, with Trustees Anthony McClaran, James Millar and Edward Gillespie on the new roof space overlooking Chester Walk.
 “The new building will transform Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, allowing for improved access and enhanced opportunities for the display of its locally, regionally, nationally and internationally important art and heritage collections. Treasures from our collections will come into the public view for the first time, whilst the new galleries will enable Cheltenham to become a major venue for national and international touring exhibitions. Our aim is to become a cultural hub for the town - a place where everyone (of all ages) is welcome.” - Jane Lillystone, Museum Arts & Tourism Manager.
Trustees Edward Gillespie, Anthony McClaran, James Millar and Trust Administrator Lavinia Sidgwick visit the new Summerfield Gallery at the refurbished Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum on 12th September 2013.
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Left to Right: Edward Gillespie, Anthony McClaran, Lavinia Sidgwick and James Millar in the new Summerfield Gallery overlooking Chester Walk.
LINKS:  
  • Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum website
  • BBC News - article about The Wilson
  • Ronald Summerfield's association with the Art Gallery and Museum
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Trustee Kate Hicks Beach visits Gloucester city project

23/7/2013

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Summerfield Charitable Trust Kate Hicks Beach trustee visit to Gloucester City Project
GymNation, a charity based in Gloucester, provides facilities to the Muslim community (although not exclusively).  In 2011 it took over the St James City Farm and Garden from Gloucester City Council to save it from closure due to cutbacks.  The Summerfield Trust awarded  a grant to help it develop the farm to enable local people to get involved in farming, gardening and other environmental projects.  The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Farm in July 2013 to open the new cafe. Kate Hicks Beach, trustee of SCT, joined the celebrations and much enjoyed meeting Faisal Atcha’s owl!
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A Tribute to Former Trustee Jan Urban Smith

4/6/2013

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PictureJan Urban-Smith
It is with much sadness we must report that Jan Urban Smith died on Saturday May 25th 2013 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. 

Jan was a trustee of the Trust for ten years; she attended her last meeting in November 2012 when she was as astute, thoughtful and funny as ever.  The following spring Jan retired and in spite of her obvious frailty, we all had a very happy lunch to celebrate her tenure as a trustee.  In her typically generous spirited way she gave each one of us a camellia tree which will help us to keep her memory alive.

Jan had lived in Gloucestershire for nearly 40 years.  Her career in education as a teacher, deputy headmistress and in the LEA gave her a deep insight and passion for education in all its forms which helped the trustees enormously when having to make decisions about requests for funding.  Jan was an extremely dedicated trustee; she rarely missed a meeting and was always keen to visit charities.  I remember her listening intently to the clients of the Nelson Trust while they were explaining the difficulties of starting life after prison.  Jamila Gavin remembers going to Gymnation in Gloucester with her and being so impressed with the gym classes for Muslim women.  James Millar remembers her huge stoicism when we all climbed up Gloucester Cathedral’s clock tower, which she insisted on doing in spite of her poor health.  Her enthusiasm for projects, even the more eccentric ones was always evident; and her opinions were pertinent and frequently persuasive.  As Edward Gillespie remembers: “time and again, Jan's thoughts on applications were totally opposite to my own, proving the value of bringing together people with brains and experience of such contrast”.  

Jan was elegant and charismatic and we all have a very fond memory of her sitting next to Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian spy who gave the Summerfield lecture at the Cheltenham Festival in 2009, and charming him to the extent that he refused to speak to anyone else but her. 

The trustees have decided to sponsor the Jan Urban Smith debate at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 12th in which leading authors will discuss the books that have shaped their lives.

Jan was a truly inspirational person, even in recent weeks her zest for life was unquenchable.   The county has benefitted immeasurably from her time as a trustee of the Summerfield Trust, her wisdom will be sorely missed.

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CHANGES TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

3/5/2013

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It is the policy of the Trust for trustees to retire at the end of a ten year term and in February we bid farewell to both Jamila Gavin and Jan Urban-Smith.  At our April meeting we welcomed two new Trustees - Vanessa Arbuthnott, and Kate Hicks Beach.

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Arts Award for the Trust

1/4/2013

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The Summerfield Charitable Trust has long supported the arts in Gloucestershire, so we were delighted to receive the Charles Irving Sponsorship Award from Cheltenham Arts Council.

The award is given for local organisations that have provided support for voluntary arts projects.

PHOTO: Mr Edward Gillespie (right), Chairman of the Trustees, receiving the award on behalf of the Summerfield Charitable Trust from Mr Graham Lockwood at The Arts Council Annual Awards Ceremony in September 2012.
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