The Glaziers Trust Grants Committee

The committee is composed of the following members:

Steve Graham (Chair)

Dr Jasmine Allen
Jasmine is Director and Curator of The Stained Glass Museum, in Ely. She is an associate member of the British Corpus Vitrearum, committee member of the Stained Glass Repository and honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers & Painters of Glass.

Keith Barley ACR

Richard Bettinson (Treasurer)
Richard is a trustee of the Glaziers’ Foundation and was appointed Treasurer in 2018. He is a member of the Glaziers’ Trust Committee and also of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers & Painters of Glass.

Sarah Brown

Dr Marie Groll (Administrator)
Marie is a manager at the York Glazier s Trust, and project director for international arts consultancy Büro Rauch. She is vice chair of the ICON Stained Glass Group, and an associate member of the British Corpus Vitrearum. She is the administrator and co-ordinator for the conservation grants and awards at the Worshipful Company.

Dan Humphries ACR
Dan is a stained glass conservator, accredited with the Institute of Conservation(ICON). He runs a small stained glass business based in the Mendip Hills, Somerset. Dan also sits on the ICON Stained Glass Group committee.

H. Thomas Küpper MA ACR
Tom worked for over 30 years as a stained glass conservator being the Head of Glazing at Lincoln Cathedral. In 2018 Tom worked for Historic England assisting parish churches with access to grant funding and maintenance planning. Since January 2020 Tom has worked at Peterborough Cathedral as Estates and Facilities Manager and he is part of the governing Exec. He is an Accredited Conservator Restorer (ACR) and a stained glass adviser to the Lincoln Diocese and a committee member of the Church Building Council (CBC) and a member of the Birmingham Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee.

Prof. Sebastian Strobl MA PhD
Prof. Strobl gained his PhD in History of Art in 1989, and subsequently worked for 15 years as the director of the stained glass conservation studio at Canterbury Cathedral. He has been a specialist conservation adviser and consultant for a wide range of national and international research and technical projects, and has served as a consultant for a number of museums and grant-funding organisations. He is now the head of department and course director in the Conservation Department at the University of Applied Sciences in Erfurt, and has served on the Glaziers Trust committee for over 20 years.