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Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP) has appointed its new CEO. Tamzyn Smith, who assumes the role from Emmie Kell, is currently
principal lead for culture and creative economy at Cornwall Council, a position she has held since 2019 and where she led on the co-creation of Cornwall’s Creative Manifesto. Prior to Cornwall Council, Smith worked at Real Ideas Organisation as a specialist consultant in arts and culture, and at the Hall for Cornwall as the interim operations and team development lead.
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She said: “I am delighted to be joining the fantastic team at Cornwall Museums Partnership. Building on the experience, partnerships and reputation that is already in place, I’m excited to get to work with Cornwall’s museums and the CMP team to establish what we want to collectively achieve together.” Smith begins as CEO in the summer.
ROGER AND OUT serving the islands all year-round on board the dedicated freight ship Gry Maritha.
After 22 loyal years – and 185,000 miles on board the Gry Maritha - Captain Paul Stevens will be retiring this month. Captain Stevens, 68, will retire almost 22 years to the day he joined the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group. A familiar and well-respected face on the Isles of Scilly, he has spent two decades
He said: “I’ve loved my time on the Gry, but all good things must come to an end. I will miss going to sea, the boat and the closeknit crew who are more like a second family.” Stuart Reid, chief executive of the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, added: “We would like to take this opportunity to thank Paul for his incredible contributions to the company over the past two decades. We will certainly miss him and wish him well for his retirement.”
NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN Andrew Williams has been sworn in as the new High Sheriff of Cornwall, taking up the reins from Mark Thomas who has held the office for the last year. The Office of High Sheriff is the oldest Royal appointment, with each county in England and Wales having an appointed High Sheriff. In Cornwall the appointment is made by HRH The Duke of Cornwall. His key responsibility will be to support the work of the judiciary, the police and emergency services, the prison and probation services and various other agencies in Cornwall involved in crime prevention. The Office of High Sheriff is an honorary,
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independent and nonpolitical role. “It’s a huge honour and a privilege to be offered the chance to serve and give something back to Cornwall,” said Williams. Williams, who runs The Lanhydrock Estate Company, is also a Falmouth Harbour Commissioner, and an ambassador as well as a member of the advisory board on the Cornwall Place Board, having served on the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership Board for the past six years.
SHELTERBOX DIRECTORS ShelterBox has welcomed a new director and deputy director of international programmes to its team. Euan Crawshaw has more than ten years of experience in humanitarian programmes and emergency response, most recently as humanitarian lead at Oxfam. New deputy Chloe Day, meanwhile, has worked in emergency response and management of multi-sectoral humanitarian programmes in some of the world’s most challenging and under-funded protracted crises. Chief executive, Sanj Srikanthan, said: “Euan will lead on the formulation of our humanitarian strategy to reach more people left without shelter after disaster in partnership with others including those closest to affected communities. “Chloe will lead our global programme delivery across three regions as well as our emergency response team, to relentlessly focus on high quality, timely delivery of emergency shelter assistance.”
Coastline Housing has welcomed three new non-executive directors to its board to support the charity with its ambitious new four-year plan to build up to 1,200 new affordable homes.
procedures that can affect social housing, while Ben Treleaven set up ISO Spaces with his business partner in 2012. David Barlow is a chartered accountant having trained and qualified with KPMG.
Kelly Kemp has been a customer of Coastline Housing for over nine years and has academic knowledge of theories and the implementation of policies and
“We are delighted to have made three such inspirational and exciting new appointments to our board,” said chair of Coastline Housing, Mark Duddridge.
