Canterbury Festival Trustee

Having appointed Susannah Stevenson as our Festival Director and Chief Executive in 2024, the Canterbury Festival now wishes to refresh its governance arrangements, appoint new trustees to its Trustee Board, and create a new Advisory Board. Our aim is to appoint trustees who will ensure that the Festival remains vital in its content and diversity for the next generation.

The Festival seeks to appoint 6-8 individuals to its Trustee Board so that collectively the Board has the knowledge and expertise to address standard charity matters such as financial, legal, human resource and strategic management issues, but also skills that relate particularly to an Arts charity in the 21st century (for example, digital marketing, curation and event delivery) and the personal qualities to make things happen.

The Festival also wishes to form an Advisory Board which would be larger and representative of the community in Canterbury and beyond. The Advisory Board will provide broad feedback, advice and recommendations to the Trustee Board, including on: the artistic quality of Festival events; the range and diversity of the Festival programme; new/wider trends in the creative and performing arts; and other related matters.