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the fablevision board
Principal Directors
Fablevision boasts a volunteer management committee who are a team of experts in a diverse range of fields from financial services and accounting to education, social enterprise and local authority service delivery.

Mr John Taylor (Chair)
Financial Services Director with various medium and large scale operations in Scotland for the last 25 years including Thomsons and D.L Bloomer. Cultural knowledge and passion for Scottish rugby operating within local and national committees of S.R.U. John has chaired the Fablevision board since 1990.

Mr Lawrence McCabe
Formarly director of Govanhill Devlopment Tust, Lawrence is now a free lance consultant working for public and private sector organizations delivering capacity building consultancy work, business planning and development. With a broad knowledge of social policy and regeneration, Lawrence has been a boar member since 2005.

Mr Phil Denning (Cultural Planning and Policy)
Scotland’s first post graduate masters qualified cultural planner, Phil serves on behalf of Her Majesty as an Inspector of education in Scotland. With a principal remit for community education, Phil also serves on the National Cultural Planning Steering Group and is heading up a large scale action research project on cultural planning (Rivers and Regeneration) on behalf of the N.C.P.S.G.

Ms Angela Bedi (VAT and Finance)
With a background in the private sector (Angela has worked for the likes of Arthur Anderson and Price Waterhouse Cooper, Angela is the board’s sounding board for financial management issues. Her specialism is VAT and she works as a consultant for the likes of the Cultural Enterprise Office delivering advice on VAT issues to cultural organizations.

Fablevision Core Team
Liz Gardiner, Director
Margot Bowman, Company Manager
Louisa Taylor, Projects Co-ordinator Transform T.V.
Frank Miller, Artistic Director, Cran Theatre

Fablevision Creatives
Fablevision has a team of creative practitioners who are employed on
projects on a free lance basis, including Graham Hunter, Frank Miller, Louisa Taylor, Catherine Ross, Jerdan Taylor and Ben Campbell.

Fablevision Associates
Lia Ghilardi
Research Fellow at De Montfort and City of London Universities.
Leading cultural planner in Europe (Sweden, Malmo) working on behalf of the
Council of Europe.

Franco Bianchini
Founder and course director of the Masters in European Cultural Planning
formally of De Montfort and now University of Leeds. Prolific writer and
publisher in cultural planning theory and practice, Franco is one of the
lead researchers in the Commedia group.

Gerry Hassan
Director of the Scottish branch of the UK Government think tank, Demos,
Gerry is currently running 2020 visioning projects throughout Scotland
(Glasgow in 2007)

David Harding
Acting chair, Royston Road Proejct; ex director of the Public Art Department in Glasgow School of Art, David has
pioneered cultural planning methodology throughout the UK and Europe for
almost 3 decades. With links to the greatest artists and pioneering thinkers
of the 20th and 21st Centuries, David is an invaluable advisor to the
Fablevision board and staff team.

Skills & Expertise
Other members of the Fablevision advisory board and staff team have an
equally impressive portfolio of skills and abilities ranging from
administration, Fundraising, Education (Elaine Marney) financial management (Richard Durk) and auditing (Douglas Tainsh),
marketing, design, project management, film and video work. We
also have a large database of free lance artists who are members of the
Fablevision Creatives and who work on individual projects but also
contribute their vision and ideas to the developing artistic practice on a
voluntary basis.