OUR TRUSTEES

The Officers of the Board and Elected Trustees are selected from member organisations at the AGM each year in November, by members of the Regional Forum. If you are interested in becoming involved please contact Judy Robinson for further details.

Co-opted Trustees are selected by the Trustee Board in order to ensure that the membership of the Board reflects the breadth and extent of the Forum's membership.

Jane Hustwit

Jane is our Vice Chair and is from Quilt Museum & Gallery.

Jane moved north in 1991 from London. Here she had a varied career which included town planning, educational research and development, five years as a national trade union officer and fundraising for a major urban charity. She then settled in Yorkshire and Humber to set up Common Purpose, an educational trust set up to promote leadership in British cities and towns.

After working as programme, regional and national director, in 1999 Jane moved to the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly as Director of External Affairs. The Assembly operates as a regional strategic partnership, leading the thinking on how the big future issues are tackled – housing, transport, land use, climate change.

Following exciting years confronting the political reality of regional governance, in April 2006 she became Director of Yorkshireurope, the region’s representation in Brussels and the European Union. Surprisingly, in this role, she was based in the region – at Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency. With a strong team in Brussels offering information and intelligence about all things European, her challenge was to persuade regional partners to make the best use of the many European opportunities available to our region.

Since April 2008, there has been a new challenge – that of working as a freelance, independent consultant and facilitator. Commissions include working with the social, economic and environmental partners of the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly on their future role; supporting staff and organisational development with the Ramblers Association and mentoring individual clients.