People
Carlotta Goulden, PGCE, MA
Carlotta Goulden is Director and Founder of Stretch. Carlotta is an ex-teacher with an MA from the London Institute of Education in Museums and Galleries in Education. The final dissertation for the MA was a look at the effect of gallery education on groups of offenders. Carlotta formed Stretch in 2003 and is passionate and driven about her cause. Carlotta acts as a consultant developing Stretch projects. This year Carlotta embarks on a research fellowship at LSE Dept of Social Policy writing a paper on the how involvement in the arts can effect resettlement of offenders.
Trustees
The management board of Trustees consists of (from left to right)
Matthew Marshall - Chair. Matthew is an investment banker and patron of the arts
Gemma Beagley - Treasurer. Gemma is an accountant and has an interest in socially aware project
Cheryl Clarke - Secretary. Cheryl is director of her own P.R. company called Mushroom Media that acts on behalf a number of charities.
Other Trustees
Russell Taylor MBE - author, journalist and creator of the Alex cartoon in the Telegraph
Merryn Somerset Webb - author and editor of Money Week Magasine
Katherine MacDonald - accountant for various charities and ex Stretch Treasurer
Stretch also has a trusted advisory board made up of company directors, senior academics in adult education, artists, prison education staff and museum educators.