Who we are

Small by design

We are lean and flexible. By keeping overheads low we can give great value where it counts – in the work. Our small core team has wide experience in brand strategy, communications, culture change and product development, and our passion for the arts is what brought us together. Our associates are a network of consultants, designers and other specialists, so we are able to build a team with the best combination of skills for each specific project.

And who you see is who you get. The team we present works right through the job and Jane Wentworth is personally involved in every project from pitch to completion.

Jane Wentworth
Director and Consultant

Jane is a strategic branding consultant with over 20 years’ experience of working on a wide range of international projects. In 2003, she set up Jane Wentworth Associates to provide specialist brand consultancy to the cultural sector. Jane Wentworth Associates has developed brand strategies and identity programmes for clients including the V&A, the Natural History Museum, Edinburgh International Festival, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Scottish Opera and the Ashmolean Museum.

Jane is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins School of Art. She is currently visiting Professor of Communication Design at the University of the Arts London and is a trustee of the Liverpool Biennial and Create Kings Cross. She writes and comments regularly about brand related issues at conferences and in the media.

Frances Croxford
Director and Consultant

Frances has worked with Jane Wentworth Associates since 2006 as a brand consultant and account manager. Her clients include the Natural History Museum, Scottish Opera, Glasgow School of Art and Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust.

Previously, she spent eight years as Product Developer for Tate, working with artists and designers including Kit Grover, Ella Doran and Orla Kiely to create bespoke products to bring the Tate brand to life. She was responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, organisation of design, production and sales of core and exhibition product. Frances has worked on exhibitions including Matisse/Picasso, Olafur Eliasson and the Terry Frost retrospective at St Ives.

Frances is a graduate of St John’s College Cambridge and has a Masters degree from the Courtauld Institute. She is a board member of Hidden Art. She has a deep love of theatre and regularly attends performances at the National Theatre, the Almeida and Donmar.

Jules Griffith
Consultant

Jules recently joined Jane Wentworth Associates from Somerset House, where she has been Director of Communications since 2007. She has extensive experience of creating running communications campaigns for exhibition, live events, merchandise and gallery openings, as well as launching websites and e-commerce activity.

Jules worked at Wolff Olins as a brand consultant for three years, focusing on cultural, media and retail clients including Tate, V&A, South West England and TimeOut. Doing a further three years as a freelance brand consultant she primarily worked for Marks and Spencer and Channel 4.

She has a BA(Hons) in Design History and Art History, and a postgraduate diploma in Communications and Press, both from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Annie Young
Office Manager

Annie recently joined Jane Wentworth Associates as Office Manager and Personal Assistant to the Directors. For the previous six years she worked at the Branding Consultancy Dave where she was Office Manager and Assistant to the Founder Members.

Prior to Dave, Annie worked at Wolff Olins as Design Resource Coordinator before a round-world trip where she worked at Saatchi and Saatchi in Auckland, New Zealand and ran a Back Packers Hostel in Cairns, Australia.

Annie graduated from the University of Northumbria with BA(Hons) in Business Management. Her interests are varied but primarily lie in painting and making jewellery.

Jane Wentworth Associates Ltd
Company Number 06980249
Registered Office: KC Partners, 76 New Bond Street, London W1