WAHWN Directors

Angela Rogers

WAHWN Executive Director leading on strategic partnerships, advocacy opportunities, fundraising and network opportunities in partnership with national and international partners. Over 30 years project management experience working in the cultural sector in Wales, including Engage Cymru, Chapter, St Donats Arts Centre, and Centre for Visual Arts.

Justine Wheatley

Justine is a Freelance Consultant for the arts, culture and environment sector with experience of strategic planning, fundraising, evaluation, training, financial management and programme design for creative health/nature interventions. She was Executive Director of Peak Cymru until 2023, working with and for young people and artists with socially engaged practice. A historian, former Chartered Accountant and Welsh learner.

Sarah Goodey

Arts Development Manager, GARTH (Gwent Arts in Health) – over 30 years’ experience of arts and health project development and management with experience of bid writing, fundraising, project development. Artist in residence on large number of health-focused programmes with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. 

Jain Boon

35 years’ experience as a trauma informed theatre director, creative practitioner, and Co Artistic Director of ThisPlace, CIC with Matilda Tonkin.

Gwenno Jones

Co-Chair of NAEN (National Arts & Education Network); freelance consultant for Do-Well (UK) Ltd - a leadership practice dedicated to the success of others, and over 30 years' experience in arts development management roles including Flintshire and Conwy local authorities.

Joseph Conran

Joseph Conran is an artist and environment sector strategist. His practice inhabits the space between people and nature, often refencing natural processes as a lens through which to interrogate humanity. In both his artistic and strategy practices, he wants to make spaces where creativity can inspire people to think more about their connection to nature, the benefits it makes to their wellbeing, and the role it plays in safeguarding our future.

Joe has spent 25 years working in the environment sector. First for Eryri National Park Authority and more recently the Countryside Council for Wales and Natural Resources Wales. He is also a Clore Fellow and the chair of the artist network CARN. Through his work at NRW, Joe has been actively working towards creating closer ties between the cultural and environmental sectors in Wales, including the recent partnership with the Arts Council of Wales that led to the new Nature strand of its Arts and Health Fund.

Dr Cath Jenkins

Dr Cath Jenkins is a practicing NHS GP based in West Wales for the last 15 years. She is an academic fellow based in Swansea University, a member of the RCGP Special Interest Group for creative health. Having previously worked as part of the Arts and Health Team at Hywel Dda University Health Board she was involved with co-creation of Hywel Dda’s Arts and Health Charter, a public pledge to integrate the arts into the work of the health board. She developed a ‘dance on prescription’ pilot project in the 2Ts cluster which won a Royal College of General Practice prize for innovation and continues to be involved as part of Hywel Dda’s Creative Prescribing Working Group.

Becky Harford

Becky Harford is a community leader, director, artist, and advocate for fairness, sustainability, and creative leadership. She co-founded Benthyg Cymru, Wales’ first Library of Things network, expanding it across the country. She has worked extensively to challenge and reshape how communities engage with resources and leadership, helping organisations build more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable models.

A Future Generations Changemaker, Becky is committed to creating solutions that support long-term wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and community resilience.

Her work spans activism, governance, and the arts, ensuring that creative approaches are embedded in leadership and systemic change. She takes an asset-based approach to community development, focusing on building capacity, amplifying existing strengths, and supporting organisations and individuals to create lasting change.

As an artist and poet, Becky explores themes of resistance, identity, and connection under her creative alter ego, Becky Cee. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions like The Radical Joy of Unmasking. She believes creativity is a tool for social change, empowerment, and wellbeing, and she works at the intersection of leadership, activism, and the arts.

Tom Ware

Tom Ware is a creative consultant, Executive Producer and Honorary Fellow at the University of South Wales. In over 30 years’ of working in film and TV in England and Wales, he has overseen the production of 1000s of hours of documentaries, dramas and factual programmes, and worked with healthcare professionals, victims of abuse and survivors of health conditions to tell their stories forcefully on a wide range of projects. As a former Head of School at USW Faculty of Creative Industries, Tom has a comprehensive overview of the creative industries in Wales and the role that they can play in supporting and promoting health and well-being. Recently, Tom has been working with immersive technology, looking at projects aiming to use this as a force for positive change in society through new ways of storytelling, empowering those who often feel marginalised or ignored to tell their stories in surprising and moving ways.