Introducing our Board of Trustees
Sharon Stirling – Chair
Having grown up in Australia, Sharon emigrated to the UK in 1985 where she spent most of her career working in the health & wellbeing industry. Having sold her business in 2005, she has since undertaken various charity fundraising activities.
Gayle Bussey
Lennox Cato
Andrew Dakin
A resident of Broadway and the surrounding area for over 30 years, Andrew is a retired Sales & Marketing Director for a multinational manufacturing company.
An opera and classical music lover, and also keen on theatre and all types of art. Andrew is also on the Management Committee for the festival.
Margot James
Margot James was educated at Millfield School and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
She is a Governor Emeritus of the LSE and has held several senior leadership and advisory roles, including Executive Chair of the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick from 2020 to 2023. She chairs the West Midlands Electric Vehicle and Battery Industrial Cluster Advisory Board and the Independent Climate Change Advisory Board to Coventry City Council. She is also a director of Prosper UK.
Margot served as Member of Parliament for Stourbridge from 2010 to 2019 and served as a Business Minister as Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries. Before entering politics, she co-founded and built Shire Health, a communications business in the life sciences sector, which was acquired by WPP in 2000.
Margot lives in the Cotswolds and is a longstanding supporter of the Broadway Arts Festival and a Trustee of the Friends of St Eadburgher’s
Jason Lewis
Jason is a solicitor and consultant to Howard Kennedy LLP having been a partner at the firm for over 25 years.
With his wife, he is a director of a small property consultancy company. Jason and his wife also buy and sell art specialising in lesser known works by well known artists.
Alastair McGrigor
Alastair has lived in Broadway since 2017. He served in the Royal Air Force as a lawyer until 2005, then the judiciary as a Judge Advocate for the Armed Forces and Judge on the Western Judicial circuit, subsequently retiring in 2023.
He is married to Julianne. Their children are grown up and live in the UK, Australia and the USA. He has a keen interest in all aspects of the Broadway arts scene as a part of a thriving village life.
Helen Munro
Helen is a retired Chief Executive who has lived in the North Cotswolds with her husband Hugh for 27 years.
Her career spans many sectors including; Commercial, British Intelligence, NHS, Aerospace, Education, Not for Profit and Regulatory. She has operated in complex, sensitive, challenging environments in the UK and overseas. She is an Advisor to RICS, Chairman of the New Barn Close Surgery Charity, Trustee of Broadway Museum and Arts Gallery and the Dorothy Pamela Smith CIO.
For fun, she loves music, Pilates and training her dog.
