At the end of 2025, we advertised for applications to join ODAC's Board of Trustees, and following a competitive process and observation period, we're delighted to have formally appointed five new Trustees to ODAC's Board. These new appointments continue to strengthen the professional and lived expertise that we have in-house, reflecting changes and developments in our programmes and how ODAC's business model has evolved over recent years.

As a registered charity (Diorama Arts Centre), ODAC is governed by a Board of Trustees - a group of volunteers who lend their professional and personal experience to oversee the organisation. While day-to-day management and programmes are delegated to the staff team, the Trustees are ultimately responsible for the finances and direction of the charity.

Visit our Trustee Page to find out more about all of our trustees!

Creative Director & Chief Executive, Daniel Pitt, shared this with us:

"This round of Trustee recruitment was a huge compliment and vote of confidence in what ODAC has become in recent years, and what it can be in the next few. Trustees are vital voluntary roles that help steer charities, and so it's an honour that this enhanced collection want to invest their time and expertise in ODAC. We were blown away by the calibre of applicants, and I'm excited by what we'll be able to achieve as a group for our communities. I'd also like to thank outgoing Trustee and former Chair (for the period when I started this role) for his 9 years of service, and life-long commitment to the charity."

MEET THE NEW TRUSTEES

OPHELIA KINGSHOTT-KPIAYE

Ophelia brings over 15 years of hands‑on operational experience across charities and local authorities, working within homelessness systems and focusing on multiple disadvantage and health inequalities.

She believes services should be shaped with people, not for them, grounding her strategic, systems-level thinking in frontline insight.

As a Camden resident, she cares deeply about local issues and spends her time volunteering with grassroots organisations and tending to her community garden.

MILLI-ROSE RUBIN

Milli-Rose is a musician and writer from Camden, who combines both singing and spoken word in her music. Using her personal experiences, Milli-Rose writes and performs material around the topics of mental health, the housing crisis in the UK, and how creativity has sustained a form of therapy throughout uncertain chapters.

Through writing and music, Milli-Rose explores these topical issues, which has led to creative facilitation work with young people as well as the creation of music and poetry platform Crossword Lyric, that aims to encourage unfinished work to get rid of perfection in the arts, and build people’s confidence.

LISA OGUN’

Lisa Ogun’ is a disabled, multidisciplinary creative, working across writing, performance, and skill-enabling crafts. Her Applied Theatre studies inform her collaborations that amplify the voices from marginalised communities and young people.

With an African-Caribbean heritage and lived experience of homelessness and domestic violence, Lisa also uses her culture and personal experiences to challenge injustice and raise social awareness.

Her current work includes:

Arts and Homelessness work.
Performing/storytelling histories of homelessness, poverty and social action.
Women’s arts empowerment initiatives.
Trusteeship for a renowned disability theatre company.
Coaching and Mentoring, including creatives with lived experience of homelessness.

TIM JONES

Tim Jones is Founder-Director of TJ Culture, a consultancy specialising in cultural strategy at the interface of arts and the built environment. He works with local authorities, developers, and cultural organisations across the UK to embed culture as infrastructure — shaping places that are commercially viable and socially rich. Previously leader of the Culture Mile project in the City of London and Head of Strategy for international cultural placemaking agency Futurecity, Tim has worked closely with ODAC on developing its community engagement offer, and brings hands-on experience translating cultural value into the language developers and planners understand.

SARAH CROMPTON HOWES

Sarah Crompton is an Executive Producer with significant experience in devised and international theatre, across commercial and subsidised sectors. Currently working with Selladoor Worldwide, she has worked with companies and venues including Polka Theatre, New International Encounter (NIE), dreamthinkspeak, Cambridge Junction, Gecko, and Hoipolloi, and co-founded a new international festival for Cambridge, ‘In Your Way’. She is have been a Trustee of The Garage arts centre in Norwich.

ANNOUNCING OUR NEW TRUSTEES