ADVISORY BOARD

Nigel Gilroy

Jeanette Bain-Burnett

Neil Mackinnon
Neil produces and presents the podcast Creative Practice.

Steve Boyd

Elin Morgan

Denise Nurse
Whilst working as an in-house lawyer at Sky, in 2004 Denise won an internal competition to become a presenter. She went on to present the Weather for Sky News & programming for Sky News, Sky Travel and Sky One. She then became one of the main presenters of BBC One’s flagship programme, Escape to the Country.
She is an ambassador for Women in the Law UK, an Executive Committee Member of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK), and a board member of One Dance UK. A keynote speaker on issues relating to diversity, women in business, law, and entrepreneurship. Denise is passionate about education, economic empowerment, and dance.
Denise has been recognised with the Ernst & Young Black Network Inspiration Award 2014, the Precious Award for Entrepreneurs of the Year 2015, UK Diversity Legal Awards for Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of an SME Law Firm 2016, We Are The City Rising Star Award 2017, Listed in 2018 TimeWise Power 50 List, and Woman of Influence & Power in Law 2020.
She lives in SW London with her husband and three children.

Gemma Griffiths

Lisa Anderson
In 2016 she was selected as one of 10 curators to compliment the International Curators Forum ‘Diaspora Pavilion’ project for the 2017 Venice Biennale. She has since curated private exhibitions for Latham and Watkins featuring artists who have gone on to be selected as Bloomberg New Contemporary artists and featured in major international art collections. She has represented artists at Basel as a Trustee for Addis Fine Art, visited international biennales during the grand tour, presented papers at a number of academic conferences and written articles for a variety of arts platforms.
Lisa Anderson developed her passion for arts whilst carving out a successful career in corporate fundraising and international business development. With a first-class degree in International Relations and Masters in Human Rights, she has worked with treasured cultural institutions like the Natural History Museum as well as pioneering international practices like NLE. She also has a background in dance performance and serves on the advisory board for Uchenna Dance Company. This unique blend of creative passion, knowledge, and business expertise has made her an incredibly well connected and sought-after culture and arts insider.

Peter Laycock
Peter holds a first-class BA (Hons.) in Performing Arts -Dance from Middlesex University, an MA in Choreography from the University of Leeds and a PGCE (Dance and Drama) from the University of Huddersfield.