Our People

To email staff in the organisation, email their full name, separated by a full stop, before the @ sign, followed by arvonfoundation.org – for example: charles.dickens@arvonfoundation.org

Council of Management

Patience Agbabi, Kate Donaghy, Marion Gibbs, John Hampshire, Robert Hingley, Mark Illis, Rachel Lewis, Gary McKeone, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Keith Pybus, David Rhodes, Duncan Campbell-Smith, Michael Symmons Roberts.

Lumb Bank - The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre
Centre Directors: Liz Flanagan and Rebecca Evans
Centre Assistant: Rachel Connor
Administrator: Ilona Jones
Book Keeper: Jean Warburton
Know your Lumb Bank centre team better - find out who Liz, Rebecca, Rachel and Ilona are.
Moniack Mhor
Director: Cynthia Rogerson
Administrator: Lyndy Batty
Meet your Moniack team... Cynthia and Lyndy
The Hurst - The John Osborne Arvon Centre
Directors: Kerry Watson, Peter Salmon, Louise Hudson
Administrator: Dan Pavitt
Kerry, Peter, Louise and Dan make up our Hurst centre team - get all the gossip on how they happened, one day, to run a writing house.
Totleigh Barton
Centre Directors: Claire Berliner and Oliver Meek
Administrator: Julia Wheadon
Read about ClaireOliver, Julia and Mr Doggles.
Arvon National
Director: Ruth Borthwick
Find out about Ruth (and what she's currently reading).  
Deputy Director and Company Secretary
Nick Murza
Nick tells us how he got to where he is today.
Development Manager
Emma Johnson
Find out what makes Emma tick.
Finance Officer
Nick Kavanagh
Find out how Nick keeps Arvon's finances under control.
Arvon Founders

John Fairfax and John Moat

Joint Presidents

Sir Robin Chichester-Clark and Terry Hands

Patrons

Dame Beryl Bainbridge FRSL, Lord (Melvyn) Bragg, Alan Brownjohn, Caroline Chichester Clark, Dr David Cohen CBE, Seamus Heaney, Carol Hughes, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE, Anthony Minghella CBE, Professor Andrew Motion, David Pease, Salman Rushdie FRSL, Wole Soyinka FRSL, Pete Townshend.

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