Rough Coast is a community interest company that creates, manages and runs professionally led arts projects and events. Rough Coast is a not for profit organisation which means only the arts practitioners are paid for their work and the directors of the company are all volunteers. Below are the directors and other key members of Rough Coast Community Arts.

Director
Bill Fry
Bill is a local town councillor and a former mayor of St Ives. He is now pursing his passion and new trained skills in theatre sound and light and supports the technical volunteers and crew on Rough Coast productions.

Director
Alan Shepherd
Worked in the theatre for a number of years in the Seventies and Eighties as a Finance Director and fundraiser and arrived in Cornwall eight years ago to deliver business start up programmes for women at Cornwall Business School. More recently spent four years as Chief Executive of the Cornwall Marine Network Limited, heading up the non-fishing marine business sector in Cornwall and now, in addition to being a Director of Penwith Housing Association Limited, a Trustee of Penwith Community Development Trust and the Chair of Hayle Runners, runs his own marine and renewable energy business consultancy company. Alan is also a keen poet and runs the St Ives Folk Night.

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