The Sainsbury Centre Board is a committee of UEA Council. It meets three times a year and is responsible for setting overall policy and strategy and for ensuring resources are in place to deliver the strategic objectives.

Membership

• David McCall, Chair of UEA Council
• Professor D. Eastwood, Vice �Chancellor of UEA
• Stuart Holmes, Treasurer of UEA
• Professor Edward Acton, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, UEA
• Professor Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellors, UEA
• Professor Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, Dean of Social Sciences (Chair)
• Nichola Johnson, Director of the Sainsbury Centre & Museology
• Dr Stephen Hooper, Director of the Sainsbury Research Unit
• Mr Simon Blakey
• Ms Erica Towner, Director of Continuing Education, UEA
• Professor J.Onians, Professor of World Art
• Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
• Tristram Besterman, Director of the Manchester Museum

The Board secretary is Kate Carreno, Head of Public Services and Administration at the Sainsbury Centre.

Terms of Reference

• To manage the galleries and to conserve and display the Sainsbury Collection consistently with the terms of the Deed of Gift from Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury and the conditions of the Endowment Funds, all remaining terms of reference being subordinate to this objective.
• To determine the budget for the annual income received by the University from the Sainsbury Centre Endowment and UEA 91 Funds, and to submit an annual report to the Trustees of the SCVA Endowment Funds after the end of each financial year showing how this income has been used.
• To be responsible for expenditure from income received from the University, the SCVA Endowment Funds, and its own fund-raising activity.
• To be responsible for the security and well-being of the University�s art collections housed in the Centre and elsewhere, the hours of opening of the Centre and the conditions of access to the collections for members of the University and forthe general public.
• To be responsible for special exhibitions and special events in the Centre.
• To determine the use and allocation of such accommodation in the Centre as falls within the remit of the Board.
• To establish appropriate standards for the protection of the visual environment of all areas of the Centre, having regard to the design concept of the building.
• To have regard to the interests of all users of the Sainsbury Centre building.
• To receive regular reports from the Director concerning the loan for exhibition elsewhere of works from the Sainsbury Collection with the consent of Lady Sainsbury, and of other works under its governance.
• To be responsible for the production and sale of catalogues, slides, photographs, reproductions and the like and for other activities in keeping with the spirit and purposes of the Centre from which a profit is intended; the profit to be allocated to the income of the Board.
• To submit an annual report to the Council.