People

Frank is a dedicated arts project manager and committed social change activist with over 20 year’s experience working at senior management and board level in the voluntary and community sector.

He is the Operations Manager for the World Cities Culture Forum; a Mentor and Assessor for CLOCK Your Skills; Co-Director of Margate Carnival; Trustee of The Show Crib youth charity; Director of GB Carnival, Advisor to the Federation of Latin American Artists and Groups and co-producer of the NATYS:  New Acts of The Year comedy showcase, and, with Hear Me Out Music, Voices to the World

His recent work includes:  Creative Producer for Bernie Grant Arts Centre; Programme Director professional development programmes: Generation Uncovered and Soho Theatre’s New Comedy Promoters (2021/22); Producer for Carnival Arts projects: Wiphala Pride (2020); and Go Wild, the Socially Distant Doorstep Carnival (2020 & 21); Producer for Hearticulate and Facemasks Pioneers, grassroots community arts and public health awareness projects.

For his MA in Creative Industries Futures and Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award, Frank is researching the Caribbean Carnival artform, Junkanoo, and the folklore and legends which travelled to the slave plantations during the genocide of African people in the 17th & 18th centuries.

Mike is Head of Innovation at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, leading the CW Innovation, a collaboration between the trust and CW+. He works collaboratively with the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator to support the widespread adoption of innovation across the NHS with the aim of putting them into the hands of patients and staff more quickly. Prior to his current role, Mike was Programme Director for long-term conditions at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, building new approaches to tackling the social determinants of ill-health.

Prior to that he was Head of Health Investment, leading the establishment of the NHS’s first Investment Fund (the Bright Ideas Fund), Health Foundry, one of the UK’s first dedicated digital health co-working spaces, and investing in Europe’s first digital health accelerator, Healthbox. Mike has supported the development of innovation programmes within public sector organisations since 2001 including at the Centre for Applied Microbiological Research, the Harwell Research Centre, and Culham Fusion.

Jenny Mollica is the Chief Executive of the Roundhouse.

Jenny is the former Chief Executive of English National Opera (ENO) and the London Coliseum (2023-26), and was previously its Director of Strategy and Engagement (2020-23). During her tenure, Jenny oversaw a period of significant transformation for ENO, defined by a strong commitment to expanding the company’s social and artistic impact and driving its national growth. Most notably, Jenny spearheaded ENO’s landmark partnership with the city region of Greater Manchester and championed the nationwide expansion of its award-winning learning and participation programme, ENO Engage. Under her leadership, over 100,000 people across the UK experienced ENO’s programmes in classrooms, hospital trusts, community spaces and online. She also co-founded the critically acclaimed creative healthcare programme ENO Breathe, which received the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Impact Award in 2021. 

Prior to this, Jenny spent just over a decade at the Barbican and Guildhall School of Music & Drama. As Director of Creative Learning, she played a pivotal role in shaping innovative cross-arts programmes, festivals and events, spanning music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.

Jenny is Chair of the Clod Ensemble, a Trustee of the Philip Loubser Foundation Supervisory Board and a Council Member of the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London’s Council on Culture and Heritage. She began her career in the education sector, and has trained at postgraduate level as both an artist and teacher.

Current Director of Development and Enterprises, Amanda leads a team of 37 fundraisers that are responsible for 28,000 key business, funder and advocacy relationships at the Royal Opera House. ROH is home to two of the world’s greatest artistic companies, The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet, performing with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Amanda is amongst the teaching staff of the Master in Performing Arts Management programme in Milan, established by Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

Barrister, James St Ville was called to the Bar in 1995. At Gray’s Inn, he was awarded the Bird & Bird Award for Intellectual Property, the Moot Society Prize and the Prince of Wales Award. At St. John’s College Cambridge, he was a Morton Scholar and awarded 1st Class Honours in Engineering, Sir Joseph Larmor’s Plate, the St.John’s College Prize and the University IEE Institution Prize. He is recommended as a Leading Junior in Information Technology and Intellectual Property by Chambers UK and by Legal Experts and is a chartered engineer with commercial experience of electronics, optical communications and engineering.

Anna has lived experience of birth trauma and has worked with UCH maternity (2018) Tea and Toast: Poems for New Mums, Maternal Journal Maternal Journal (2021) and The Mum Poem Press (2021) Songs of Love and Strength exploring this topic. Anna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Royal Society of Public Health. She is a trustee for the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society which was founded by her own Mother who has RA, 21 years ago as a patient-led charity, supporting people living with Arthritis.

Anna is also currently doing a part-time PhD at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and her project is in collaboration with young people who are experiencing invisible chronic illness.
At London Arts and Health, Anna has driven content and ideas around cultural social prescribing, practitioner care and networking with key stakeholders in Creative Health across London. Anna authored the Cultural Social Prescribing Myth Buster, co-chairs the London Action on Creative Health stakeholder group and runs initiatives such as the Digital Sandpit for LAH.