The Board of Trustees of Tate is delighted to announce that James Timpson OBE has been appointed Tate Trustee. The appointment, which has been made by the Prime Minister, is from 1 March 2017 for a period of four years.
James Timpson has also been appointed Chair of the Tate Liverpool Advisory Council from 1 March 2017.
James Timpson (b. 1971) is Chief Executive of Timpson, the UK’s leading retail service provider and a family-owned and run business, established in 1865 and based in Manchester. He is Chair of the Prison Reform Trust and was, until 2016, Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Reoffending, a group of like-minded employers who offer a second chance to people with a criminal conviction. His passion and enthusiasm for business, and people was recognized in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2011 where he was presented with an OBE for ‘Services to Training and Employment for Disadvantaged People’. The following year he was appointed the David Goldman Visiting Professor of Innovation for 2012/13, at the Newcastle University Business School helping to inspire and motivate budding entrepreneurs, business leaders and students alike. During 2015 he received the Albert Medal from the Royal Society of Arts and in January 2016 he appeared in the Sunday Times 500 Most Influential list, acknowledging his recruitment of ex-offenders. He was appointed the HRH Prince of Wales Ambassador for responsible business in the North West in 2015.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Tate’s mission, laid down by the 1992 Museums and Galleries Act, is to increase public knowledge, understanding and appreciation of art. Its responsibilities are safeguarding and enhancing its assets which are the collections, expertise in the collections and subject area, and the buildings. Tate seeks to spread the benefits of those assets by maximising access and developing value for visitors, satisfying stakeholders and through effective organisation and sound financial management. Tate Trustees are not remunerated. The appointment process has followed the OCPA Code of Practice. Appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Mr Timpson has declared that the company of which he is a CEO (Timpson Ltd) has made recordable donations to Mr Edward Timpson MP over the past five years - details of which can be obtained from the Electoral Commission website.