Our Team

Patrons

We are honoured to be supported by patrons whose work and lives reflect the values at the heart of CWHG — championing women's voices, scholarship, public service and the arts.

• Kate Mosse CBE FRSL — bestselling author and co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction

• Jess Brown-Fuller MP — Member of Parliament for Chichester

• Dame Philippa Russell — leading advocate for disabled children and family carers, former Director of the Council for Disabled Children and Chair of the UK Government's Standing Commission on Carers

• Diana Symes

• Dr Anita White CBE — former England hockey captain and 1975 World Cup winner; co-founder of Women in Sport and long-standing champion of women in sport, with a long association with the University of Chichester

• Dr Gill Clarke MBE — writer, curator and former academic who has published widely on twentieth century British art. Her books include Evelyn Dunbar: War and Country and Conflicting Views: Pacifist Artists, and she has curated exhibitions at galleries including Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Gill is one of our speakers in 2027.

• Anne Scicluna — thrice mayor in the city of Chichester, with a genuine passion for our local city's history, art and the community. She is a serving Liberal Democrat councillor for Central Ward.

• Prof. Pamela Howard OBE — Director and Scenographer working primarily in opera and contemporary music theatre. Her practice encompasses large and small scale productions, in major opera houses and unloved and forgotten spaces.

• Dr Linda Shaw OBE

• Dr Caroline Adams — historian and archivist, providing research services for family and local history projects; with a particular focus on Sussex.

Our lead artist

• Kate Viner — artist and sculptor, leading the Madge Turner Flag Project and creating the maquette and proposed bronze statue of Madge Turner.

Research group

• Our research group (CWHG members) is currently working on our second book, continuing the work of uncovering and recording the lives of Chichester women.

Charities and collaborators

We're proud to work alongside organisations across Chichester and beyond.

Civic and cultural partners

• Chichester City Council

• The Novium Museum

• Chichester Cathedral

• West Sussex Record Office

• New Park Community & Arts Association

• Twinned with Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group

Education partners

• University of Chichester

• Chichester College

• Bishop Luffa School

Charity partners (Madge Turner Flag Project)

• Sanctuary in Chichester

• My Sisters' House

• Stonepillow

• Lifecentre

With thanks to our volunteers

CWHG is powered by the generosity of volunteers who give their time, skills and energy to help bring our work to life. We are enormously grateful to every one of them.