Our Trustees

As a registered charity, YFA is governed by a board of trustees. Our board members have various backgrounds, in areas that include media, arts, business, and law; they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Archive.

• Colin Philpott

  Colin Philpott is Director of the National Media Museum – formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television - in Bradford – a post he took up in April 2004.

  In addition, he is a member of the council of the Advertising Standards Authority – the body which deals with complaints about advertising in newspapers, broadcasting and other media. As a council member Colin is involved each week in viewing adverts and deciding how to respond to complaints.

  Until 2004 Colin worked for the BBC for 24 years as a reporter, producer, documentary maker and editorial manager. His last job in the BBC was as Head of BBC Yorkshire where he led a number of strategic developments including the setting up of a new BBC regional operation in Hull. He won a number of Sony Radio and Royal Television Society Awards.

  Colin is also Chair of Creative Partnerships, Bradford – a project led by the Arts Council to bring the creative sector and schools closer together. He is also a trustee of the Krazna-Kraus Foundation (which encourages and supports the publication of books about film and TV), and is a Director of Bradford Film Limited and a Director of Arts and Business Yorkshire.

• Barrie Price

  Barrie Price FCA, FCCA, FIBM is Senior Partner at Eura Audit UK Accountants and Business Advisers, Ripon, formerly known as Lishman Sidwell Campbell & Price, and also Vice Chairman of Eura Audit International, an international accountancy body. He served on Ripon City Council 1968 – 1991 (Mayor 1980-81), and on Harrogate Borough Council 1974-91. Barrie is a Trustee of Ripon Festival, Ripon Cathedral Appeal, and the Ripon Improvement Trust. He is a founder Trustee of the Yorkshire Film Archive.

• Mike Pye

  Mike Pye was a member of Sheffield City Council for 26 years until he stood down in 2010. Most of which time he was involved in the Arts, Museums, Sport, and the Cultural Industries Sectors as the Lead Member.

  He has been involved in the theatres in Sheffield for over 20 years having been the Chair of the Crucible Theatre and Sheffield Theatres Trust in the past. He is still a Director of the Lyceum Theatre Trust. In addition, he is an independent Director of a number of other arts/museums related organisations in the local and regional area.

  He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is the Deputy Chairman and Honorary Treasurer of the Yorkshire Regional Committee.

  His interests include reading and walking. His sporting interests are definitely non-participative but he enjoys watching sporting events such as athletics and rugby football.

• Michael Harvey

  Michael Harvey is Curator of Cinematography at the National Media Museum, Bradford. He is responsible for its Cinematography collection. Michael has curated numerous exhibitions, including Magic Behind the Screen: 100 Years of British Cinema (1996) Bond, James Bond (2002), which toured to major venues in the USA and Canada, Myths and Visions: The Art of Ray Harryhausen (2006), Live by the Lens, Die by the Lens: Film Stars and Photographers (2008) and Drawings That Move: The Art of Joanna Quinn (2009), as well as the Museum’s permanent animation gallery.

  He is currently coordinating the acquisition of the celebrated special effects animator Ray Harryhausen’s collection, conducting research into early colour film and contributing to various exhibition projects.

  Prior to joining the Museum, Michael was a professional photographer, documentary film-maker and educational television programme director.

• Nigel Triffitt

  Currently employed as a Management Accountant at York St John University, Nigel’s role involves working with the senior managers and budget holders at the University to assist decision support and financial planning.  He started with York St John in 1996 and during the previous ten years gained his financial experience in two other major sectors, nationalised industry working for British Rail and in the private sector working for a financial leasing company.

  Early on in his role at the University, he started to work with the Yorkshire Film Archive providing financial advice and guidance including help with budget setting and management accounts in addition to supporting the application of funding bids.  In May 2000 he became a Trustee of the Yorkshire Film Archive.

• Matthew Wrigley

  Matthew trained as a solicitor in London and was a partner in a City firm for some years before returning to Yorkshire in 1978.  He was head of the private client and charities department at Dibb Lupton (now DLA), before demerging the whole department to form Wrigleys in 1996.  He now splits his time between private client (trusts and tax planning) work and charity matters.  He specialises in questions of trust constitution, governance and trustee responsibilities.

  He is recognised as an expert in both disciplines by the National Legal Directories, Legal 500 and Chambers, and having a particular interest in heritage property, his practice regularly involves questions which overlap both areas.  He acts for the owners of some of the most important heritage properties still in private hands, and trusteeships have included the Yorkshire Film Archive, the Yorkshire Gardens Trust and the Thackray Medical Museum.

• Heather Powell

  Heather Powell is the Head of Metadata for ITV and based in the Leeds Studios.

  Prior to this, she was part of the BBC Information & Archive's senior management team with responsibilities latterly for planning the design of the digitally delivered archive and media management services for the BBC's move to the north at Salford Quays.

  Her earlier experience is rooted in the management of physical archives, database development and research services both within the BBC and as Head of Yorkshire Television's Programme Library from 1985 to 1996. Commercial experience has included running Yorkshire Television’s clip sale service.

  With a professional background rooted in information management, Heather has membership of industry-wide organisations such as FIAT/IFTA.

• Terence Suthers

  Terry Suthers has followed a distinguished career in museums and the built heritage. He recently retired as Director and Chief Executive of the Harewood House Trust. Under his stewardship from 1992-2007 Harewood won several awards for tourism, the arts and education.

  Previously he was Assistant Director and Head of Public Services at the Science Museum, London and before that Director of the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens in York. Trained initially as a conservator and archaeologist in 1980 Suthers won a Churchill Fellowship to study conservation techniques in Italy and North Africa.

  From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Expert Panel for Museums, Libraries and Archives and until 2005 Vice Chair of Yorkshire Museums Council. He is currently Chair of the York Archaeological Trust and serves as a Trustee of the York Museum Trust, Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds and is a member of York Minster’s Fabric Advisory Committee.

  Terry is a Fellow of the Museums Association and in January 2005 he was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of West Yorkshire.

• David Lascelles

  David Lascelles is an independent producer of drama for television and the cinema. His television credits include the ever-popular Inspector Morse (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Television Series in 1991); Moll Flanders for Granada TV; Wide-eyed and Legless and Second Sight for the BBC. His cinema credits include the film of Shakespeare’s Richard III (as Line Producer) starring Ian McKellen and The Wisdom of Crocodiles.

  He is also Chairman of the Harewood House Trust and owner of the Harewood Estate. In 2007 he combined these roles with his production experience to bring the legendary theatre show Carnival Messiah back to Yorkshire for a two-week run in a big top in the grounds of Harewood, as part of the celebration of the bi-centenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

  He sits on various boards, including Welcome to Yorkshire, Alchemy and Kala Sangam.

• Dr Luke McKernan

  Luke McKernan is Lead Curator, Moving Image at the British Library. He is leading the development of moving images as the resource for British Library users, and has been instrumental in producing moving image and audio-visual strategies for the Library. Previously he was Head of Information at the British Universities Film & Video Council, during which time he served as Chair of the Film Archive Forum, the representative body for the UK's public sector moving image archives. Luke is a film historian with expertise in early and non-fiction film, while having a strong interest in new media developments.

• Brian Royce

  Brian Royce is a retired Chartered Surveyor with extensive property experience gained in the higher education, local authority and private practice sectors.

  He accepted the invitation to become a Trustee of the Yorkshire Film Archive in January 2009 shortly after his retirement from the post of Head of Estates at York St John University

  During his ten years in this post he developed a close working relationship with the Yorkshire Film Archive through the care and maintenance of their original premises in Ripon and the development of a purpose-built film archive within the university’s new learning resource centre.