LIPA’s purpose
Founding learning principles
Clients
LIPA Members
LIPA Council
LIPA’s Committees
Freedom of Information Act
LIPA’s purpose
LIPA exists to provide exemplary and distinctive vocational performing arts and related education and training.
Founding learning principles
- To foster individual versatility.
- To balance the performing arts as an economy and art forms.
- To promote self-sufficiency and a spirit of enterprise.
- To promote cross skill collaboration.
- To ensure parity of esteem for both support roles and performing roles.
Clients
Performers and those who make performance possible from all over the world. We want to contribute towards our local and regional profile.
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts ("LIPA")
LIPA is both a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity.
LIPA Members
There is no distinction between a Member of a company limited by guarantee and a Member of a company limited by shares.
The Members are responsible for ensuring that the company meets its statutory requirements, the requirements of the Memorandum and Articles of Association and that the LIPA Council fulfils its tasks.
The LIPA Members are:
- John Causebrook
- Flo Clucas
- Jim Dimmock
- Mark Featherstone-Witty
- Anthony Field
- Rupert Grey
- Joanna Moriarty
- Roger Morris
- Humphrey Walwyn
They may be contacted c/o LIPA, Mount Street, Liverpool L1 9HF, UK.
LIPA Council
The members of the Council are the Directors of the Company for the purposes of the Companies Act, and the Trustees of the Charity for the purposes of the Charities Acts. They are individually and collectively responsible for the day-to-day management of LIPA’s business. It is with them that the responsibility lies, and from them that the Charity Commissioners will require answers, if the affairs of the company are investigated.
The following individuals currently make up LIPA Council:
Independent Members
- Phil Markey (Chair)
- Louise Ellman
- Tony Wood
- Anthony Everitt
- Collin Thompson
- Amy de Joia
- John Flamson
- Ken Webster
- Thomas Schoenberg
- Peter Toyne
- Geoffrey Goodwin
- Peter Bounds
- Bill Carroll
- Adeyinka Olushende
- Ken Tipton
- Richard Young
- Ian Jones
- Roger Morris
- James Beresford
Representative Members
- Steve Rotheram (LCC)
- Chris Layton (T&LB)
Founding Principal/CEO
They may be contacted c/o LIPA, Mount Street, Liverpool L1 9HF, UK
The membership of LIPA Council is reviewed regularly. If you are interested in becoming a member of LIPA Council and believe you have the experience to make a real contribution to the success of the institution then we would be pleased to hear from you. You should write in the first instance to the Clerk to Council, c/o LIPA, Mount Street, Liverpool L1 9HF.
LIPA is committed to diversity and has policies and development programmes in place to promote equality of opportunity. We accordingly welcome applications from both disabled and ethnic minority candidates.
LIPA’s Committees
LIPA Council has established the following sub-committees to deal with particular aspects of LIPA’s business. These are:
- Finance Committee
- Audit Committee
- Nominations Committee
- Remuneration Committee
Freedom of Information Act 2000
LIPA takes its responsibilities in terms of the openness and transparency of its governance arrangements seriously and we have produced a Publication Scheme in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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