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
Directors: Ben Jancovich and Liz Flanagan
Administrator: Ilona Jones
Know your Lumb Bank centre team better - find out who Ben, Liz and Ilona are.
Moniack Mhor
Directors: Cynthia Rogerson and Hamish MacDonald
Administrator: Lyndy Batty
Where would we be without Cynthia, Hamish and Lyndy... Meet your Moniack team.
The Hurst - The John Osborne Arvon Centre
Directors: Kerry Watson and Peter Salmon Administrator: Dan Pavitt
Kerry, Peter 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 and Julia.
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.
National Administrator and Project Coordinator
Kim Patrick
- here's her biography.
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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