Who We Are | Trustees & Honorary Presidents
Trustees & Role Holders:
Adrian Thompson
Chair
Lynda Morgan
Secretary/
Leonard Prize
Email:
secretary@aofess.org.uk
leonard.prize@aofess.org.uk
lynda.morgan@aofess.org.uk
Patricia Williams
Membership Secretary/
Unsung Heroes
Email:
membership@aofess.org.uk
patricia.williams@aofess.org.uk
Brian Parsons
Routledge Prize/
Richardson Prize
Email:
richardson.prize@aofess.org.uk
routledge.prize@aofess.org.uk
brian.parsons@aofess.org.uk
Immediate Past Trustees & Role Holders include:
James Gilchrist
Past Chair
Stephen Varcoe
Vice-Chair/Actors Prize
Colin Drage
Past Treasurer/ Charity
Nicola Harrison
Education
Stephen Miles
Communications
Current Honorary Presidents:
Sir Thomas Allen, CBE
Michael Chance, CBE
Dame Sarah Connolly, DBE
Prof. Jeremy Dibble
Sir Nicholas Hytner
Graham Johnson, OBE
Prof. Robert Saxton
Dame Harriet Walter, DBE
Artists/Performers & Creatives who have in the past given their time to promote the educational aims of WordSong/AESS have included, among many others:
Joy Mammen, Julia McKenzie, Mary Hammond, Howard Wong, John Lofthouse, Katerina Karneus, Patricia Routledge, Cleo Laine, Andrew Motion, Anne Harvey, Graham Trew, David Williams, Gabriel Woolf, Rosamund Shelley, Jonathan Miller, Sarah Walker, Richard Jackson, Robert Ponsonby, Norman Lebrecht, Adele Leigh, Lord Smith, Richard Suart, Catherine Bott, Susan Bullock and James Bowman.
In Memoriam | Recent Milestones
This section is in development! Watch this space!
Dame Patricia Routledge
Dame Cleo Laine
Michael Pilkington
Gary Humphreys
Short Takes
George Parsons (member) has died (9 Feb 2025)
Celebrations
- Betty Roe | Happy 95th Birthday
- Catherine Lambert | 107th Birthday