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Board of Trustees

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is governed by our Board of Trustees.

Our trustees lead strategic development and make decisions on grant requests over £2million. They also decide on applications under grant programmes focusing on historic parks, landscapes and townscapes.

Read the latest board decisions and minutes

Trustees are appointed, following open advertisement, by the Prime Minister to the board of our parent body the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF). Their decisions are independent.

On a day-to-day basis, the organisation is managed by the executive team.

Biography

Sir Peter Luff

Sir Peter Luff joined the National Heritage Memorial Fund and National Lottery Heritage Fund as Chair on 30 March 2015.

Biography

Maria Adebowale-Schwarte

Maria is an inclusive place and urban renewal strategist, and the Founding Director of Living Space Project, a place making and green space think tank and consultancy.

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Baroness Kay Andrews OBE

Elizabeth (Kay) Andrews OBE, Baroness Andrews of Southover, was Chair of English Heritage from July 2009 to July 2013.

Biography

Jim Dixon

Jim Dixon is a biologist who has worked in landscapes, public bodies, business and voluntary organisations in a career spanning 35 years.

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Dr Claire Feehily

Claire is a qualified accountant and MBA and has particular expertise in financial and risk governance, and in helping organisations to engage properly with those who use services and to learn from what they say.

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Sarah Flannigan

Sarah is chief information officer at EDF Energy. She was previously chief information officer at the National Trust where she led a major digital transformation programme which helped drive deeper supporter engagement and improve internal efficiency.

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Perdita Hunt OBE, DL

Perdita Hunt OBE, DL is Executive Director of The Recess College – an international leadership programme for senior executives, Consultant for Leadership Insight, a Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey, member of Arts Council England’s South East Committee, Chairman of Surrey Hills Arts Advisory Committee, Trustee of the Foundling Museums and Baynards Zambia Trust and was until recently the Director of the Watts Gallery Trust.

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Ray Macfarlane

Ray graduated MA, LLB, MBA from the University of Glasgow and began her career as a solicitor in private practice.

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Steve Miller

Steve Miller is Assistant Director, Community and Environmental Services (Culture & Heritage) for Norfolk County Council, Head of Norfolk Museums Service and Norfolk Arts Service.

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René Olivieri

René Olivieri was for many years the Chief Executive of the international scientific and scholarly publisher, Blackwell Publishing.

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Professor David Stocker

David works in the heritage sector in Lincolnshire and the East Midlands.

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Dr Tom Tew

Dr Tom Tew is a nature conservationist, currently Chief Executive of the Environment Bank, a private sector company that works with planning authorities, landowners and developers to help the planning system deliver net gains for wildlife.