Heritage funds name new trustees

ANNA EAVIS and ROISHA HUGHES have been appointed as trustees to the National Memorial Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Heritage Fund by the Prime Minister. Their three-year terms began in February this year. 

Chief Executive of Oxford Preservation Trust, Eavis has previously worked at the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and English Heritage. For 11 years, she was English Heritage’s Curatorial Director, leading its learning, youth engagement and creative programmes and managing the London Blue Plaques scheme. 

She is a trustee of the Leeds Castle Foundation and Corpus Vitrearum, as well as a member of the fabric advisory committees at Canterbury and Salisbury cathedrals. She was formerly a trustee of the Stained Glass Museum.

Hughes founded consultancy practise Reading the Room Ltd in 2022, leading work on improving policing productivity and advising tech and consulting firms on new markets. She has twenty years' experience working in public services in London and for the government.

​She began her civil service career in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, working on the bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. She then ran the Mayor of London’s office for eight years.

In 2016, Hughes joined the Metropolitan Police as Director of Strategy and Governance.

Eavis said she was "delighted" to join the National Lottery Heritage Fund and serve as Chair of the National Memorial Fund Panel.

As Chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund Panel, Eavis will be remunerated at £10,500 per annum, and as Lead Trustee on Grant in Aid/ Non Lottery Funding, Roisha will be remunerated at £10,500 per annum.