A LAWHITTON-BASED charity has announced the appointment of a new chair of trustees.

Cornwall Community Foundation has announced that Jane Hartley is its new chair of trustees. Jane has been a trustee since April 2009 and vice chair from 2014.

Jane has been working closely with outgoing chairman, The Hon Evelyn Boscawen who continues as a trustee of the foundation.

Jane has lived in Cornwall for more than 25 years where she is a director of a family business. Jane is an enthusiastic Cornish philanthropist and has served on many Cornwall Community Foundation panels, including the grants committee and the events committee.

Her family charitable trust, the Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust, has donated substantially to the foundation and established a named fund.

In 2016 Jane was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall, an independent, non-political Royal appointment, an office dating back to Saxon times.

Her fundraising included an ultra-triathlon, for which she cycled, swam and ran the length of Cornwall in a day.