BCA Staff
Mike Taylor
BCA Executive Director
The Executive Director is an essential interface and bridge between the board of Trustees and staff team. The role has specific responsibility for managing day-to-day operations, staff & volunteers, and also developing and implementing programmes. The Director is an advocate and publicly represents the charity to stakeholders. Internally the Director strengthens and improves governance, and externally spearheads fundraising. Finally, the Director is tasked with growing the BCA membership base in line with stakeholder voices and also developing Rose House as a vibrant community-based asset.
Emma Robinson
Town Centre Manager
The Town Centre Manager’s area of responsibility extends from North Barnes to White Hart Lane. Emma’s remit is to help attract new, independent shops to Barnes, make local shops more popular with residents, and build on the image of Barnes as a tourist destination, as a way of increasing shoppers’ footfall and to work with traders to fight for their interests. Matched funding for the Town Centre Manager’s work in this essential community service is provided by the BCA and the Council.
Tunde Marton
Office Manager
Tunde is the Office Manager at the BCA’s headquarters. As front of house, Tunde is responsible for the day-to-day running of Rose House and is the first point of contact for all lettings of Rose House space.
Charlotte Sharpe-Neal
BCA Events Organiser
Charlotte organises the Duck Race, Barnes Fair, Barnes Food Fair and the Barnes Christmas Fair. She is employed by the BCA to carry out the detailed planning for these events. She handles the entertainment offering, exhibitor offering, sponsorship, advertising, marketing and PR – including the production of two show programmes. Charlotte works with steering committees, made up of local volunteers, for both events. She is also the publisher of the BCA hard copy magazine, Prospect, which is distributed locally every season.
Russell Greaves
Greenkeeper
Russell has been our Green Keeper for several years following the sudden draining of Barnes Pond is 2001 and its subsequent redevelopment. The Green Keeper’s role consists essentially of carrying out and organising works on and around the Green whilst liaising with the Council, services, contractors as well as local businesses and residents. There is a particular focus on managing Barnes Pond for wildlife and as a local amenity. The post is funded jointly by the BCA and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.