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Scottish Games Network Founder Joins National Videogame Museum As New Trustee

The National Videogame Museum (NVM) has announced a roster of new Trustees joining the Board of its governing charity, The British Games Institute (BGI), including Brian Baglow – the founder of the Scottish Games Network and Scottish Games Week.

With a dynamic blend of cross-sector expertise, the appointments come at a pivotal moment for the charity as it accelerates its evolution as a museum and shifts focus towards greater national impact.

The new appointments represent experts from culture, visitor attractions, videogames, fundraising, and marketing. The influx of new Trustees will join the Board in two phases as previous tenures end. These strategic additions will bolster the Museum’s governance while helping the NVM meet its ambitious goals for the future.

Under the leadership of Co-CEOs Cat Powell and John O’Shea since 2022, the NVM has done significant work consolidating the collection, developing exhibitions and enriching experience for audiences and researchers and, this spring, the Charity is on track to submit for Arts Council England’s National Museum Accreditation.

As the UK’s only museum dedicated to the history, social and cultural impact of videogames, the NVM is positioned at the forefront of preserving the Nation’s videogames heritage. With a mission statement asserting that videogames are for everyone, the Museum continues to evolve, ensuring gaming culture and its preservation is relevant and accessible to all.

New Trustees Announced:

Beginning in March 2025, the NVM will welcome the first phase of new trustees:

David Barrie (founder and CEO of Game Academy)
Joe Chetcuti (Creative Director at Creative Assembly)
Emma Cooper (Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Manager at Innovate UK)
Natalie Kane (Curator of Digital Design at The V&A)
Nick Poole (Chief Executive of UKIE)

With extensive experience in game development, cultural institutions, brand management and technological innovation, these trustees will play a key role in guiding the Museum as it expands its National profile and strengthens how its mission to highlight videogames culture, interfaces with audiences and the wider sector.

The next phase of appointments will follow in November 2025:

Brian Baglow (Founder of Scottish Games Week)
John Booth (Senior Director at Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Emily Britt (Senior Communications Manager at Sharkmob)
Jess Gaskell (Director of PMO at Sumo Digital)

Their expertise from leading and working with companies in the games industry and sector across the UK and Europe will ensure the Museum’s continued relevance and its ability to build strategic plans that shape the future of videogames preservation and education.

The new Board of the National Videogame Museum, based in Sheffield, will celebrate the Museum’s presence in the North and enhance the understanding of its communities and their needs while bringing a national profile to the Charity’s innovative work.

Claire Boissiere, Chair of the Board of Trustees at the NVM, said:

We are honoured to welcome our new Trustees to the Board. Their extensive experience will be invaluable as we embark on an exciting new chapter in the National Videogame Museum’s journey, expanding our national presence and advancing our mission. We are excited to see how their ideas and insights will help shape our future.
We also want to share our heartfelt thanks to the Trustees stepping down at this time. Their dedication, guidance, and leadership have played a huge role in shaping the Museum’s success. Their impact will continue to inspire us, and we are deeply grateful for the time, energy, and passion they have given to the Museum.

Brian Baglow, said:

I am delighted and honoured to become a trustee of the British Games Institute and the National Videogame museum alongside such an incredible range of experts, leaders and innovators.
The NVM is a phenomenal asset in the UK’s cultural appreciation of games. Its work in preserving and providing access to games is invaluable and I believe it can play an even greater role in the the appreciation of the growing cultural and social impact of games beyond the consumer market.
I’m looking forward to helping the organisation grow, thrive and play a major role in the ongoing evolution of the games ecosystem across the whole of the United Kingdom.”

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Advocacy Support Cymru is looking for new trustees.

'ASC’s Advocates do important work across South & West Wales, supporting people with mental health conditions, people who have difficulty communicating their wishes and are in need of a voice. We are inviting businesses to support our advocacy services to ensure we continue to provide high quality, independent advocacy to all those who need it.'

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Trustees honor national champion teams for athletic, academic successes

@Broadfork
It is. The #trustees do the something similar for the #youngsters in the #parish. They organise a trip to #BeWILDerwood every year.
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We had lunch at the #villagehall today! The #Trustees of the #Poor 's #Allotment give the #pensioners of the #parish a free lunch at #Christmas time each year.

The free Christmas lunch served to pensioners in the village hall.

I left with deep respect for the #trustees and the team that keep our preschool running. It was nice to see so many people step forward. I left feeling more connected to the community we’ve recently moved into.”

So much #kindness on show here, we love to see it!

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“Our local pre-school was at risk of shutting down unless they could find five #trustees to serve on the committee. These unpaid volunteers were essential, and no one wanted to see our beloved village preschool close its doors.

Although I’ve been juggling a lot of responsibilities and feeling stretched thin, I nervously attended the AGM, ready to help but aware of my limits. To my relief, I wasn’t alone. Ten members of the community showed up, eager to volunteer.

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A lot less water at Glendale Falls than the last time I visited
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#Texas #school #trustees begin #ideological #purge with #ChristianNationalist backing.

#Conservative trustees at #CyFairISD keep their #campaign #promises by #banning #books and #censoring #topics they don't like.

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/school-board-christian-nationalist-purge-19450783.php

@alternet_rss_bot. Bravo #Kennerly. Here are the #trustees whose cowardice led to his resignation. https://geraldrfordfoundation.org/officers-and-trustees/

Glendale Falls full throttle
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(The trust was set up to hold #Trump’s business assets during his presidency to avoid conflicts of interest.)

#NYAG questions #DonaldTrumpJr about other certifications re #Trump’s #SFCs they sent to #lenders over several years.

There are more letters to #banks from #Mazars. Each letter, every time says that the #trustees (Jr & #AllenWeisselberg) of the #DonaldJTrumpRevocableTrust are responsible for the Trump's SFCs (oops).

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#NYAG asks #DonaldTrumpJr more about his certification of Trump’s #SFCs for other yrs, & he answers he doesn't recall details, but he that he would have followed the same process in those yrs.

#NYAG shows another 2017 letter sent to #DeutscheBank from #Mazars, the #TrumpOrganization's fmr accounting firm.

It says BASED ON discussions Mazars had w/ the #trustees (Jr & #AllenWeisselberg) of the #DonaldJTrumpRevocableTrust, #Trump’s #SFCs are correct.

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#OTD in 1999 the Kingsbury #Beer brand, originally of #Mantiwoc #Wisconsin was killed off in a #corporate restructuring after merging assets of Stroh's into #Pabst. The move was made by bean counters running the beer empire created by maverick iron fisted leveraged buyout legend #PaulKalmanovitz of S&P General Brewing, who in the 1970's infamously began consolidating regional powerhouse US #breweries such as Falstaff, Lucky, Olympia, Pearl under one umbrella, stripping assets and selling off the real estate. Kalmanovitz, an immigrant industrialist who once sold his coat after arriving penniless from Poland in the US after WWI, died in 1987 but his legacy lives on in a #PrivateEquity empire run by #trustees, and acts of #philanthropy from his fortune that have funded wings at educational institutions like UCSF and UC Davis.