Our team

 

Clair Greenaway (Trustee)

Clair Greenaway is a highly experienced strategic cultural manager and educator. She was Executive Director of Cheltenham Literature Festival from 2005-2011, overseeing the dramatic expansion of the Festival and relocation to a new site. Clair has been a Board member of the British Arts Festivals Association and a funding evaluator for the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England. In 2011 she became a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, and in 2015 was appointed Academic Course Leader for Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management. Clair was the recipient of the University’s inaugural Staff Award for Excellence in Sustainability. Her pedagogic work in this area has been recognised by the United Nations University as an example of best practice in sustainability education.

 

Donna Renney (Chair of Trustees)

Donna Renney has considerable experience in the not-for-profit and cultural sectors.  Initially in education, as Director of Development at the University of Gloucestershire and with grass-roots educational organisations working with ethnic-minority women.  She spent ten years at Cheltenham Festivals becoming its first Chief Executive   She led the organisation to independence from the local Council, restructured the educational arm of the Festivals and was also one of the co-founders of Cheltenham Science Festival.  She founded GUST to take some of the knowledge she had acquired from her time in Cheltenham to support strengthening the cultural sector in Gloucester.  She was one of the founders of Gloucester Culture Trust.

 

Kate Danielson (Director)

Kate Danielson has been at the forefront of promoting and developing socio-economic diversity in the arts and culture sector since launching Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries with Jerwood Arts in 2010.  She continues to run the programme, alongside her work as founder of  Kate Danielson Associates, consulting for a range of grant-giving organisations and project managing Garfield Weston Foundation’s 60th Anniversary.  As a producer, she was Senior Producer at Coventry City of Culture until June 2022 and a previous Director of Cheltenham Jazz Festival.  Having co-founded the Gloucester Culture Trust, she set up and ran the Gloucester Roundhouse Exchange Project from 2017-20, funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. She is a trustee of Orchestras for All.  

 

James Millar (Trustee)

James Millar is an experienced board director and an independent trustee of a number of organisations. An accomplished civil and commercial lawyer who has practised in Scotland, England and USA, for the past 30 years he has founded and managed entrepreneurial private companies in the logistics and environmental sectors. James has served on the boards as chair and trustee of a number of national and regional charities including Keep Britain Tidy, the Road Safety Trust and the Summerfield Trust. A pioneer in sustaining local economies, James currently sits on a variety of business boards including the Open Food Network, Stroudco and FreightSafe Limited.