Team

Emmie Kell – CEO

Emmie Kell is the CEO of the Cornwall Museums Partnership charity, she leads on strategic planning and fundraising. Emmie has worked in museums for the last 20 years including the V&A, Somerset House, MOSI Manchester and Thinktank Birmingham. Prior to joining the Cornwall Museums Partnership, Emmie worked as a consultant with museums across the UK and co-authored the Cornwall Museums Strategy. She is a member of the Institute of Fundraising and in 2014/15 was the Arts Council England Museums Clore Fellow. Emmie works part time – Monday –Thursday.

Chloe Hughes – Community Engagement Officer

Chloe Hughes is the Community Engagement Officer, her role is to support museums across Cornwall to develop their audiences, including children and young people and local communities, by working creatively. With a background in professional and community arts management and development, Chloe has supported and led on the creation and delivery of a range of small, medium and large scale arts projects for artists, arts organisations and development agencies. In 2011 Chloe was awarded the BBC Performing Arts Fund Producer Fellowship with Plymouth Dance where she produced and supported a wide range of dance projects and activity city wide.

Chloe has experience of working on arts projects with a range of community groups which have included groups deemed vulnerable or at risk, along with groups connected to employment and training, alcohol and substance abuse, mental health issues, children and young people, women’s groups and migrant and military families.

Jenny Opie – Finance Officer

Jenny Opie is a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW and has always had a particular interest specialising in Charity finances having also obtained a diploma in Charity Accounting. Having trained in Birmingham, Jenny has gained extensive accounting experience working in practice for a wide variety of small to medium sized business throughout the Midlands and the South West. Jenny’s role is to manage the budgets and finances of the partnership and provide support to partner organisations where necessary. She is based in the CMP office 2 days a week.

Bryony Robins – Museum Development Officer

Bryony Robins is Cornwall’s Museum Development Officer. Having trained in the arts, Bryony became interested in museums though an appreciation of how cultural activities engage and enrich people’s lives by enabling us to make connections with our heritage, creativity and sense of place. Having previously been responsible for the development of a £5.5m HLF funded museum transformation project, Bryony’s museum development experience was grounded in the establishment of regional programmes in digital engagement and learning for Museums Sheffield, MLA East Midlands and Renaissance East Midlands.

Charlotte Todd – Digital Coordinator (based at Telegraph Museum Porthcurno)

Charlotte Todd is the Digital Coordinator, on secondment from Telegraph Museum Porthcurno. The main purpose of this role is to coordinate digital projects in museums and archives across Cornwall, ensuring the sharing of skills and knowledge in the creation and use of digitised content.

Charlotte has worked in the museum sector for 10 years, starting as a volunteer at The Wordsworth Trust in Cumbria before becoming a Documentation Assistant at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. In 2008, she began working at the Telegraph Museum Porthcurno as the Collections Management Assistant. In 2011, she became the Collections Manager, responsible for the care and development of the museum’s designated archive and object collection. Charlotte is based in the CMP office 2 days a week.

Jo Moore – Collections Coordinator (based at Wheal Martyn)

Jo Moore is the Collections Coordinator, on secondment from, and based at, Wheal Martyn near St Austell. This role is twofold, focussing on the collections at the museum and on those in others across Cornwall. There will be a variety of opportunities for these museums to learn from Wheal Martyn, as it tackles its own collections management and care challenges.

Jo has worked in the heritage sector since 1990, first in an administrative role within the historic buildings department of the National Trust in the former Wessex Region and subsequently as its Curator for Cornwall. In 2012 Jo became the part-time Curator at Wheal Martyn, with responsibility for the management and care of the collections at the museum.

Jenna Marrion – Project Manager (on Maternity Leave)

Jenna Marrion is the Project Manager for the MPM Project (0.5). She has joined the CMP team to work alongside our partners in delivering the key objectives and outputs for the project.

With a degree in Language & Communications, Jenna has worked in a variety of marketing and project management roles for a diverse range of organisations; including the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Natural England, the Cornwall Sports Partnership and Oxford Innovation.

Working mainly on European or government funded programmes within the creative, cultural and heritage sectors, she has experience of working with a broad range of different partners on a number of community-engagement and development projects.

Rachel Bell – Museum Development Assistant

Rachel Bell is undertaking an internship as Museums Development Assistant, with the intention of developing her own project benefiting the community and supporting its museums and galleries. She has recently graduated with a BA (Hons) in English Literature with Creative Writing, and spends her spare time blogging and drafting fiction. Rachel has nine years of experience working in retail and business management, having played an active role in her family’s ever-changing local business and most recently acting as retail manager. Rachel takes interest in art which reflects the stunning Cornish landscapes and their history.