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Arts and Heritage Alliance Milton Keynes – Who are we?
A cultural alliance since 2001, AHA-MK became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2015. It has a current board of five trustees responsible for the governance, strategy and compliance with its charitable objective. This is:
- To promote the arts and heritage for the benefit of the public in Milton Keynes in particular but not exclusively by supporting and representing the arts and heritage sector through promotion, representation and development and by working in partnership with other like organisations to achieve joint goals that further the CIO’s charitable purposes.
After our long-standing Chair standing down last year, the Board now seeks to appoint a new Chair to provide strategic leadership and advocacy for the role culture plays in placemaking and delivering vital social and economic benefits such as learning and education, inclusion and diversity and health and wealth being.
About AHA-MK
AHA-MK is a membership organisation uniting and advocating for the cultural sector across the city. Our members include organisations of international, national, regional and local significance. The breadth of members enables AHA-MK to advocate for culture and heritage as a vital ingredient of the City’s aspiration to be a world-class place for people to live, work and play.
In addition to acting as a voice for the cultural sector and providing opportunities for the sector to share good practice and develop, AHA-MK delivers a number of funded projects. Example projects include:
- Establishing and project managing arts and heritage-based apprenticeships in a project funded by Milton Keynes City Council;
- Developing inclusion and diversity materials to be used within schools across MK and beyond;
- Building cultural and creative education across the city; and
- Working with MK Museum to facilitate community engagement.
AHA-MK also has overall responsibility for MAKE, the cultural education partnership for Milton Keynes.
Membership fees are an annual and unrestricted income for AHA-MK. Other projects provide restricted income for the organisation. As with all small arts and heritage organisations, an ongoing challenge for AHA-MK is to ensure that its income matches its expenditure and allows it to develop reserves for ongoing sustainability.
During its existence, AHA-MK has always been supported by professional staff working on freelance contracts. Our current staff include a Director (Hannah Ellams) and Learning and Inclusion Manager (Camille Poole). Both Hannah and Camille work part time for the organisation on fixed term contracts.
Welcome to our new Chair
We are excited to welcome our new Chair Simon Kearey who can be contacted on Chair@ahamk.org
If you are interested in becoming a trustee of AHAMK – maybe with an interest in fundraising, membership growth, cultural advocacy, inclusion and diversity or learning please email Simon.
AHA-MK Update
Annual General Meeting
Spring 2026 – date to be announced soon
If you’d like to attend, please fill out this short form.
