Committees

VAN has established several advisory, working and policy/planning committees/groups and partnerships with major organisations in and around the voluntary and cultural sectors. These include advisory groups for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and Network Sservices working groups.

Voluntary Arts Link Committee

• Chair — Chris Stenton (Foundation for Community Dance)
• Liz Whitehead (British & International Federation of Festivals)
• Gil Dye (The Lace Guild)
• Robin Osterley (Making Music)
• Philip Watson (Britsh Federation of Brass Bands)

Voluntary Arts England National Advisory Group

• Jonathon Cochrane (Chair) - Theatre and Arts Development Manager, Redditch Borough Council
• David Brown - Arts Officer, Mansfield District Council
• Garry Churchill - Creative Options Consultancy
• Rosemary Curtis - Personnel solutions in the arts & voluntary sector
• Gil Dye - The Lace Guild
• Tony Gibbs - NODA
• Chris Westwood

Voluntary Arts Ireland

• Elaine Bradley - Volunteering Ireland (RoI)
• Stephen Brown (Chair) - Music/Choral, Belfast (NI)
• William Clements - Music/ Bands, Carrickfergus (NI)
• Tara Connaghan - traditional arts, Clare/Donegal (RoI)
• Jenny Cooke - Youth Music Theatre, NI
• Colm Croffy (Chair RoI Panel) - Festivals, (RoI)
• Maire Davey - Artist / Community Arts Education (RoI)
• Edith Geraghty - Writer/Drama, Co. Mayo (RoI)
• David Nixon - Music, Fermanagh (NI)
• Michael O'Donnell - Music (Cross Border)
• Conor O'Leary - Rural Arts Networks/Community-Wicklow (RoI)
• Simeon Smith - Samba/Dublin (RoI)

Voluntary Arts Scotland

• Chair — David McLellan (formerly lawyer and partner in Dundas & Wilson CS/Turcan Connell WS. Edinburgh Festival Society Ltd.; Scottish Chamber Orchestra Ltd.; Queen's Hall (Edinburgh) Ltd.; Dunedin Consort; Tunnell Trust for Young Musicians; RSAMD Trusts; Bruce Millar Trust; Caledonian Opera Ltd.; English Pocket Opera Ltd.; Carl Rosa Opera Ltd; Friends of Haddo Inc.)
• Anne Cunningham
• Bill Dunlop
• Charles Bell
• Elizabeth Blyth Bain
• Elizabeth East
• Fiona Rogan
• Jack Sanderson
• Janet Darling
• Jenny Neesham
• John Cairns
• Marie Shaw
• Robert Pickles

Voluntary Arts Wales

• Chair — Aled Rhys-Jones
• Aled Lloyd Davis
• Ingela Mann
• R. Alun Evans
• Iwan Brioc
• Eleri Retallick
• Delyth Vaughan
• Victoria Callen
• Jo-Anne Swales - Observer (Arts Council of Wales)