Tricia was born in Halifax in 1957, and was educated at the Crossley and Porter Grammar School. She initially studied Physics at UMIST and then went on to study Textile Technology at Huddersfield Polytechnic. As a result of her final thesis, she was awarded the Heavy Woollen District Manufacturers Traveling Scholarship, enabling her to work with the major European Dyestuffs producers. Until 2008 and the ending of textile production at Shaw Lodge Mills she acted as Business Development and Administration Manager. Now a self employed consultant, she was one of the original founding quartet of Artworks.
Passionate about the rights of children and young people to have fair access to an excellent education, Tricia was recently awarded an MBE for voluntary service to education as Chair of Governors at Halifax High at Wellesley Park and Chair of the Calderdale Association of Governors. She is also Regional Director for Yorkshire and the Humber of the National Governors Association.
Following in the family Methodist tradition, Tricia is a church organist and choir mistress and looks forward to the time when she may be able to take up the bassoon again, having last put it down when she left school. Tricia Astwood is the Heritage Officer and Administrator at The Artworks.
