Recent experience includes: Programme lead for Animate – Chesterfield and Staveley public art programme, Chesterfield Council; Programme lead for Crossings and Gateways mural commissions across Wakefield district, Wakefield Council; Community Consultation programme for Castleford’s Long Term Plan for Towns, Wakefield Council; Lead Producer for three year Dewsbury Creative Town Arts Programme of temporary and permanent public art projects; Producer for Stairfoot Public Art Programme in Barnsley; Public Art Audit for Barnsley Council; Public Art Audit with volunteers for Hull City Council; Creative Producer for the three year arts programme of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Great Place Scheme; Producer of War Horse WWI memorial in Featherstone and Fighting From Home by Luke Perry, permanent artwork in Featherstone.

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Recent experience includes – Programme lead for Catterick Garrison Public Art programme, North Yorkshire Council; Programme lead for UNBOUND, a professional development programme for artists seeking to work in the public realm, in partnership with YVAN (Yorkshire Visual Arts network), Wakefield Council; Feasibility for a new public art trail in Barnsley for Barnsley Council; Development of a Public Art Policy for Hull City Council; Creation of ‘An Approach to Art in Public’ and a ‘Creativity Strategy’ for North East Lincolnshire Council; Development of a Public Art Strategy for the Selby, Tadcaster and Sherburn area of North Yorkshire and a Cultural Development Framework – both for Selby District Council; Producer for Walking Together – a permanent mining memorial at Markham Vale; and Producer for a series of temporary public artworks for the two year Wentworth & Elsecar Great Place Scheme supported by Arts Council England.

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Helen’s work portfolio includes Lead Producer for Engage/Create, a Beam commission programme with mentorship and support for South Yorkshire based artists for Barnsley Council; East Street Arts in Leeds 2020-2024 as Public Programme and Engagement Lead managing national place-making programmes such as the High Street Heritage Action Zone funded by Historic England, and city-wide public art programme A City Less Grey. Previously from 2016 – 2020 Helen was Head of Heritage, Engagement and Exhibitions at The Piece Hall, Halifax; part of the reopening team following a £19 million transformation project and 5-year closure. She also led the Heritage and Community Engagement programme for York Minster Revealed NLHF funded project at York Minster from 2012-2015.

Helen has delivered curation, programming and participation work at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with a focus on refugee communities and was a Trustee for National City of Sanctuary; a movement supporting people seeking sanctuary in towns and cities across the UK from 2014-2016. She has also worked delivering participation programmes for young people at The Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle Upon Tyne and South Asian Arts uk, Leeds.

Helen is passionate about diversity and widening participation in the arts and is a member of Black Curators Collective; a collective and forum for Black women and non-binary curators in the UK.

Before becoming a consultant Richard most recently established and managed the Heritage Lottery Fund supported Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership (DVLP) focusing on the heritage, environment and communities of the Dearne Valley area of South Yorkshire. In 2018 it won the Community Involvement category in the national Local Government Chronicle Awards, reflecting the approach to engaging with local communities, with a particular focus on the arts.

Richard has strong project and programme management skills and has led on all aspects of project initiation, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. He is experienced in securing multi-million-pound funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and European Regional Development Fund, as well as a range of other funding sources such as the Future High Street Fund, Section 106 and smaller grant funding bodies. He has led on the development and implementation of a range of arts strategies and commissioned permanent and temporary art works, through a range of competitions and tenders.

Gordon was Chief Executive of Lakeland Arts from 2010 to 2019 where he led the development of the Trusts portfolio of museums and galleries: Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Blackwell the Arts Crafts House and the Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry. He directed the project to create Windermere Jetty Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories designed by Carmody Groarke architects. The £20 million Museum opened in March 2019. Gordon oversaw the first stages of the Abbot Hall redevelopment project, designed by MUMA.

Previously, Gordon directed the development of The Hepworth Wakefield, designed by Sir David Chipperfield. He took the award-winning gallery from the initial concept and visioning through to completion of construction in 2010. Gordon was manager of Wakefield Council’s museums, arts and heritage services from 1995 to 2004.
Gordon retired in 2019 and lives near Wakefield, where he enjoys the vibrant cultural life of the area as well as the wonderful Yorkshire countryside.

Her initial training was in Landscape Architecture, and as a senior lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Leeds Beckett University, she encourages the crossing of boundaries through interdisciplinary teaching.

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Jess works alongside partners, developers, local authorities, and community groups delivering advice on regional, city-wide and town centre projects.

Through her research she has investigated the role of arts-based practice in fostering well-being and regeneration in communities in the UK and is currently a collaborator developing a Public Space Toolkit for Wales. Her practice as an urban designer and creative practitioner enables her to undertake, develop and deliver placemaking strategies and masterplans that promote art and wellbeing in the value of good design.

Jess believes the experience of place is fundamental to our physical and mental health and sense of wellbeing. ‘This opportunity will enable me to use my strategic vision, judgement, teamwork and creative skills to help nurture, collaborate and grow Beam over the next three years – an organisation I feel passionate about, connected to and inspired by’.

Growing up in Portsmouth, and with a retired Naval father, the Army provided a useful and positive distraction for 15 years, sending Andrew to places around Germany, NI and UK to find excitement. He left in 1995, having met and married a local girl, and decided to settle in South Yorkshire, he spent the first few years testing ‘civi-street’ and finding his place in it before getting into IT and extending this into Project
Management. Being a ‘people’ person, programming held little excitement for him so falling back on 15 years service he focused on the Control aspects of projects, Governance, Planning and Risks, helping Project  Managers deliver key programmes around the UK. He now works as an Interim Business Consultant, sharing his view and persuading others of a better way of doing things.
Andrew lives in Surrey for work and in Bramley with Ann his wife, a retired Police Officer and now Criminal Analyst with South Yorkshire Police and has 21 years old twins. Andrew’s son is working in the local economy and striving to find his place in the world and his daughter, works for Sweetspot (organisers of Uk based professional cycling races and events) is taking on the International world of Cycling.
Andrews gets a great deal of pleasure from voluntary involvement and working with local organisations, it provides his with an opportunity to give back and to help and fill gaps in the knowledge and experience of those running them. Working across a broad range of sectors, education, local community groups, Sea Cadets, Veterans and Arts and Cultures organisations he helps them to visualise and plan future direction.

Passionate about diversity, inclusivity, and community engagement, Rina brings critical insight and vision to her role as Trustee at Beam. Well-connected across arts organisations in the North of England, she is particularly interested in supporting heritage and cultural initiatives that foster dialogue, accessibility, and social connection across Wakefield and the wider region.

Her doctoral research explored wellbeing, happiness and aesthetic experience. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield co-curating the Cultures of_ public programme and publication series, but has experience of working on projects across West Yorkshire at the nexus of arts, culture, health and place.

She has worked across Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and is passionate about the role that the built and natural environment plays in supporting inclusive growth and healthy communities. Abbie now leads a number of complex economic growth, sector development, and innovation programmes as well as designing delivery approaches for strategic regeneration areas across South Yorkshire.

He has worked across the media sphere for a number of boutique media companies including his own. Henri studied broadcast journalism at Coventry University and has held senior roles at notable media companies throughout his career delivering exceptional results for clients both locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Henri is a 30 under 30 winner with the Institute of Promotional Marketing and has been a contributor to various magazines and broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and well established news outlets. Henri is passionate about taking action on climate change.

In his spare time he enjoys travelling having visited almost 100 nations, making music and performing. He is an English national Ice Hockey champion three times running and still enjoys playing semi-professional Ice Hockey for Leeds Lightning.

He is also passionate  about  creating new public spaces including the commissioning of public art.

Recently he secured £48m of Levelling Up Funds for several major regeneration initiatives in Wakefield. He also secured and managed Heritage Lottery Funding for Westgate Heritage Action Zone. Prior to his work in major regeneration, he worked in community- led economic regeneration helping the city’s most challenging neighbourhoods.

James has now retired but volunteers with several local organisations, as it provides him with an opportunity to give back and share his knowledge and experience with the next generation.