MEET THE HYPATIA TRUST TEAM
Currently The Hypatia Trust is in the process of developing new beginnings. Shorn of the direct responsibility for the care of Hypatia’s major collections - our future is for remaking. A number of valuable and unique archival collections remain, and the digital future will ensure an expanding forum for The Hypatia Trust’s work.
Those who will help shape that future are our friends and supporters – some as far away from Cornwall as Japan, Washington, Germany, Australia and New Zealand & places in between. But those, who will ensure and sustain The Hypatia Trust, will be local to Penzance, West Cornwall. Our consulting team includes the following and will expand and contract as needed and as willing.
Katie Kirk - Chair of the Trustees
Katie developed an early interest in the visual and performing arts, nature, charities and campaigns; themes which have continued to drive her work.
Katie applies herself to grassroots project development, helping groups to focus their ideas and to form project plans, which is how she first became involved with The Hypatia Trust.
Her creative appetite has led to her to form a folk duo, lead creative writing workshops at The Writers’ Block, perform poetry, stories and songs with The Story Republic, Wildworks, Golden Tree, Perthi Kov and the Minack and more.
Read more about Katie here
Miki Ashton - Manager
Miki studied at the Chelsea School of Art and Middlesex University where she received a BA in Product Design. She was born and worked in London for many years before moving to Penzance, Cornwall in 2002 where she ran several restaurants.
Miki is now the manager of The Hypatia Trust, overseeing the day-to-day running and supporting the wider team with a range of projects and events. She is also project co-ordinator for The Gardeners’ House project, which although now a CIO in it’s own right began as a Hypatia project and the brainchild of Melissa Hardie. Get in touch with Miki for general enquiries.
Contact: miki@hypatia-trust.org.uk
Maggi Livingstone - Lead Archivist
Maggi is our lead archivist, archiving the correspondence, notebooks and original manuscripts in The Hypatia Trust collections so that they can be preserved for the long term and made accessible for future generations to enjoy.
Linda Cleary -
Director of Women in Word Literary Festival
Linda founded the Women in Word Literary Festival in 2023: a celebration of women in word, featuring in conversation / readings from established and emerging women writers, talks, events and workshops, poetry films by women and networking opportunities.
We have now had two fantastic and well attended festivals in June ‘23 and June ‘24.
From 2019 to 2022 Linda curated a Literary Fiction department for Hypatia Publications of which there were four releases.
Linda is a writer herself and runs the Free Writers Centre as a literary consultant, writing coach, editor and running writing courses - as well as project managing events such as the Women in Word festival!
Linda works on the festival between January to July.
Contact: linda@hypatia-trust.org.uk
Lally Macbeth - Events
Lally is an artist and writer based in Penryn. Lally studied Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins and then worked at Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection before relocating to Cornwall where she has worked freelance for a number of museum organisations and been involved in various artistic collaborations including Ancient Scent which explored the working methods of the artist Ithell Colquhoun.
Lally runs The Folk Archive, a library and archive that seeks to preserve and promote all aspects of folk customs, cultures and costumes with the aim of facilitating artists, writers and creatives in researching folk related projects.
In her role at The Hypatia Trust, Lally runs our events programme.
Want to a hold an event at Hypatia? Contact Lally for more information.
Contact: lally@hypatia-trust.org.uk
Alice Mount - Online archive
Alice is the managing editor of our collaborative online history hub, Women in Cornwall. She has worked as a freelance copy editor, writer and researcher for various art, history and archive projects. She has a BA in English Literature (University of Edinburgh), and an MA in Oral History and Life Writing (University of Sussex), and has a particular interest in hidden social histories and contemporary feminist writing practices.
Contact: alice@hypatia-trust.org.uk
Zoe Fitzpatrick - Communications & Bookshop Manager
Zoe is our Communications Lead, with over two decades of professional experience in marketing and advertising, working with household names. She confesses she loves to “create connection” so it’s no wonder she’s joined us at Hypatia, but she also manages our bookshop - Women In Word - engaging with friends, customers and supporters on the female authors that inspire them.
Contact: zoe@hypatia-trust.org.uk
Helen Hoyle - Arts
Helen as Arts leader works hard to sustain and expand the Cornwall Artists’ Index (CAI), founded and sustained on-line by the Trust and its voluntary team of researchers.
In her own right she is an Art Historian and maintains web-logs entitled Dates in Women’s Art (Anniversaries in the Lives of Women Artists) and Women Artists in Cornwall. Working with her as needed is the web designer Nick Harpley.
HYPATIA TRUSTEES
Katie Kirk
Chair of the board of Trustees
Doreen Pinfold
Retired Head of Library & Information Services at Falmouth University, Cornwall
Philip Budden
Retired dental surgeon, Treasurer of the Trust
Andrew Bell, OBE
Retired Company Director, Cornwall
Dr Jane Royle
Retired Consultant in Public Health, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Dr Judith Davidson
Retired Principal Clinical Scientist, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
+ VIEW HYPATIA'S FRIENDS REMEMBERED:
John Ryton Andrews, 2008
Wilhelmina Barns Graham, 2004
Andrea Garrihy, 2016
Dr James (Jim) Gibson, 2005
Lady Mary Holborrow, 2017
Jessica Mann, 2018
Frances Partridge, 2004
Dr Elspeth Pope, 2013
Hilary Richings, 2015
Professor Charles Thomas, 2016
Hon David Treffry of Place, 2000
Eva Tucker, 2015
Marion Whybrow, 2015
Veronica Janas, 2016
Esme Stanford, 2017
Sarah Fermi, 2018
John Sansom, 2019
A BIG THANK YOU TO:
We are immensely grateful to the following people and organisations who have made significant donations to The Hypatia Trust since its foundation in 1996.
+ VIEW CURRENT & ONGOING SUPPORTERS:
Budden family (Cornwall)
The 20-40 Project (London and Cornwall)
Andrews-Westlake family (Exeter, Devon & Cornwall) 2009
Community Chest (Penwith Community Development Fund) 2006
Cornwall Council (Arthur Q Couch Fund)
Cornwall Counselling Service (C & J Leigh)
Eric and Deirdre Dare (Truro)
Exeter University Special Collections & Libraries
Healthy Living Initiative (Small Grants fund) 2006
The Heritage Lottery Fund (History 51) 2012-13
The Heritage Lottery Fund (Morrab Stables development) 2017
Home Front Recall (2006) Heritage Lottery Fund (The Land Girls of Cornwall)
Norna Jamieson (London & Shetland) and family
Daphne & James Laing of St Andrews Scotland
The Millennium Fellowship Programme (2000) National Lottery
Friends of the Morrab Gardens Penzance
Penwith District Council
Penzance Town Council
Dr Elspeth Pope and Professor James Holly and their family 2013
Tabb House Publishers (Padstow) 2012
The Tanner Trust (UK and Cornwall) 2007, 2013, 2016
Architectural Heritage Fund 2018
Langdale Trust 2018
The Hypatia Trust is one of very few organisations in the UK dedicated to promoting education and research in women's studies, and supporting the intellectual endeavours of women so that their contributions are maximised.