Golden-Oldies Trustees
There are five Trustees who are all committed to developing Golden-Oldies in the months and years ahead. Grenville Jones (59) is the Project Director and Golden-Oldies is based at his office which is in a former Methodist Chapel in the small North Somerset village of Farmborough, situated between Bath and Wells. The Trustees are pictured below – they are left to right, Grenville Jones, John Cullum, Guy Woodward, Marian McNeir, and Bob Tyrrell.
GRENVILLE JONES
Grenville Jones is well-known and respected as a choir leader and conductor in the West of England. He is the man with a reputation for getting people to sing. Apart from the choirs he leads he is also a concert organiser (the Bath SHOWCASE charity show he produces raised £20,000 for small community groups in Bath in 2007 – www.bathshowcase.org). He is a member of the Association of British Choral Directors ABCD and a Trustee of the Rodolfus Choir.
For a period of his working life he was at the BBC in Bristol but for the past 20 years he has also been building up his publishing business. Music is a hobby which has slowly but surely taken over his life!
Grenville is founder conductor of The City of Bath Male Choir, which was launched in February 2006 and now already has over 70 singers on its books and makes a fantastic sound.
Grenville also launched a ladies close-harmony and swing group in October 2006 called Stockingtops. This is a 32 voice auditioned group who concentrate on close harmony and swing music. Stockingtops made their first appearance at a recent community concert in Bath where they stole the show! They also sang in the 2007 Xtra Factor.
As conductor of the famous Silver Ring Choir of Bath he has led the group on an exciting musical journey. In ten years the choir has doubled to 96 voices. There have been tours to Canada, Europe, New Zealand and numerous broadcasts. Grenville has introduced a series of popular concerts featuring the choir with names such as The Grimethorpe Band, London Welsh and Treorchy Male Choirs, popular stars Jamie Cullum, Claire Teal, Katherine Jenkins, Aled Jones and in December this year Hayley Westenra.
MARIAN McNEIR – Chairman
Marian studied modern foreign languages at the Universities of London and Heidelberg in Germany and gained an MA, a PGCE and a Diploma in Translation. She lectured at the University of Marburg and on her return to England entered the teaching profession where she eventually became an Advisory Teacher and Education Inspector. She gained an Med and taught at the School of Education at Oxford University. She currently lectures part-time at Bath University.
In 1995 she became a Councillor for Bath and North East Somerset. She has served in many senior roles including Chairman of the Education Committee, Mayor of Bath and Chairman of the Council.
She is currently Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Charter Trustees (made up of Bath Councillors), Chairman of the Aix en Provence Twinning Association and Children’s Champion. She writes nationally on education issues.
GUY WOODWARD
Guy is an ex-senior partner of Mowbray Woodwards with wide ranging expertise in litigation, family, children and divorce matters. He is also an expert on motor sport law and is honorary legal adviser to The British Automobile Racing Club.
Guy has been a member of the Law Society Children Panel almost since its inception and is also a member of Resolution and the National Council for Family Proceedings. At a local level he has been Chairman of the Bath and District branch of the NSPCC. He has also been past President of the Bath Law Society and is currently Clerk to the Bath Barton Regis and Grumbalds Ash Division; Bristol City Bedminster and Wrington and Bridgwater divisions of
the Commissioners of Tax.
JOHN CULLUM
After graduating with an MA Honours degree from St Andrews University, John spent 14 years working for Ford Motor Company.
He moved to Wiltshire in 1982 to join PHH Europe where he progressed to become Chief Executive of this £2 billion turnover vehicle management services company. He helped steer the ultimate sale of the company’s European operations for over $850 million to BNP Paribas in 2002.
John took early retirement in 2003 to serve in various Non-Executive Director roles in the private and public sector. These currently include in the private sector, the Chair of Premier Watercoolers Ltd, Chair of JBP Public Relations Ltd, Chair of RealTime Risk Assessment Ltd and serving on the boards of Bath Consultancy Group, and his son, Jamie Cullum’s music business.
John is Chairman of the Royal United Hospital Bath’s Forever Friends Appeal and serves on the committee of BANES Quartet (Community Foundation Charity.) He is also a regional council member (and past chair) of the CBI South West Region and an Ambassador for the South West Region IOD.
BOB TYRRELL
Until 1997 Bob Tyrrell was Chairman of the Henley Centre for Forecasting. He established the Centre as a private consultancy in 1986. After selling the company to WPP he left to work as an independent consultant, entrepreneur, author and broadcaster.
He is currently a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 ‘Analysis’ programme, a member of the European Advisory Board of the Global Future Forum, a non-executive director of SMC Group plc, sits on the Vision Board of Sapiens UK Ltd. and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Market Leader, the journal of the British Marketing Society. He is an Association Member of BUPA.
He specialises in analysing and interpreting the implications of social change, working for clients in the private and public sectors on strategic development and public policy issues. Recent clients include Axa, Boots Retail, the Brenninkmeijer family, BUPA, Egg, Manchester Airport, National Magazine Company, Pfizer, Tesco, Virgin Atlantic and Whitbread.
If you would like to know more about Golden-Oldies please email our Project Director Grenville Jones.