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During this half term break, please consider booking your visit in advance.

Doing this reduces queuing at the Welcome Centre when you arrive.

The image shows a scenic stone bridge spanning a lake in a picturesque park-like setting. The arched bridge is ornately designed with decorative balustrades and statues adorning it. On the bridge, there are several people walking across it. The surrounding landscape is grassy with scattered trees dotting the rolling hills in the background. A red telephone booth stands near the bridge, providing a contrasting pop of colour against the natural scenery.

Finance,
Audit &
Risk Committee

Philip Bunt (Chair)

Philip is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales with over 40 years of experience in the UK and overseas in the accountancy profession and as a Chief Financial Officer or Chief Operating Officer in several businesses, charities and the public sector. He retired in 2023 from the role of Chief Operating Officer of UK Anti-Doping.

Philip has served as Vice-Chair of Governors of two schools where he also chaired the finance committees and was a trustee of the associated charities. He was Deputy Chair and Treasurer of the Campaign for Learning. Before being appointed at CVHC he was the honorary treasurer of an international development charity.

Philip is the Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee. He is also a trustee of Compton Verney Fund and the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust.

Dr Charlotte Woodhead

Dr Charlotte  Woodhead  is  an  associate  professor  at  Warwick  Law  School,  University  of Warwick and is a non-practising barrister. Charlotte researches in the field of cultural heritage law. Her recent work has analysed how the UK cares for cultural heritage through law and ethics to create communities of care, using the lens of the ethics of care.

A particular focus of her work has been on the repatriation of contested objects and the restitution of Nazi Era spoliated cultural  objects.  Between  2013  and  2019  she  served  as  a  member  of  the  UK Museums Association Ethics Committee.

 

 

Helen Rose

Helen enjoyed a 30-year executive career working for many of the leading companies in the UK, successfully moving sectors and functional specialisms. With half her career in retail and hospitality businesses (Dixons, Safeway and Forte) and half in retail financial services (Lloyds Banking Group and TSB). ]

She held roles as a Finance Director and latterly as the Chief Operating Officer at TSB. She has extensive experience of leading transformational change. Helen began her career at Coopers and Lybrand where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Helen now balances a rich and varied portfolio as a Non-Executive Director (Greencore, a leading food manufacturer), Executive Coach, Trustee and Advisor.

 

Penny Egan

Penny took on the role of Chair of CVHC in 2020 having recently retired as the Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission. She joined the Commission after stepping down as the Executive Director of the RSA where she was the first woman to have led the Society in its 250-year history. Prior to this, Penny was Programme Development Director at the RSA. Her early career included the posts of Press and Publicity Officer at the Crafts Council, Press Officer to the Prime Minister and Press Officer at the V&A Museum.

Penny has held several non executive roles. She is a lay Member of Council at the University of Reading. Previously she has been the Chair of the Museum of the Home a Lay Member of Council at the University of Warwick, Member of the Design Council, Trustee of DEMOS and Non-Executive Director of Wardour Publishing.

Penny received a CBE in 2013 in recognition of her contribution to international education. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art and the RSA.