Glynis Powell

Glynis came to Birmingham in the early ‘80s for a post-graduate course in the history of art and design and fell in love with the city of terracotta brick and the architecture of ‘backyard enterprise’.

As befitting the times, and place, she worked through a number of small enterprises including a women’s video co-op spending a decade in community video and broadcast before circling back to ‘history’ for the next two decades in museum advisory roles and helping a hidden baroque garden become a tourist destination and a beacon of ‘greenness’ in a sea of industrial landscapes.

A resident of Kings Heath for nearly 40 years, Glynis values the abundance of parks locally. “For our growing families they become exciting places of discovery and imagination. The pandemic too showed just how important these shared public green spaces are.”

More recently Chamberlain’s magnificent house and grounds could easily have become a ghostly pile of ‘american gothic’ proportions if it weren’t for the persistence and hard work of many, many volunteers and staff. I now feel privileged to be able to serve alongside these committed individuals on the Trust board, working together to safeguard the legacy of Chamberlain’s house and grounds for future generations.