4. Gaynor Coley | World Harmony Run

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• PROFILE: GAYNOR COLEY, EN PROJECT VELOPMENT DIRECTOR
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• CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND -FOUNR OF THE EN PROJECT TIM SM (LEFT) AND MANAGG DIRECTOR GAYNOR COLEY SPEAK WH THE PRCE OF WAL AND DUCHS OF CORNWALL DURG THEIR VIS TO THE EN PROJECT ST ATELL, CORNWALL.
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PROFILE: GAYNOR COLEY, EN PROJECT VELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Gaynor Coley will leave the Cornish visor attractn for the Royal Botanic Garns Kew; En founr Tim Sm has also taken a new role. Gaynor Coley, executive director of the En Project, is to leave the Cornish visor attractn the tumn to jo the Royal Botanic Garns, Kew, as director of public programm.

Gaynor Coley joed the project 1997 as fance director and 2001 was promoted to managg director before eventually beg jot chief executive wh Sm.

Visor numbers have fallen at the attractn, which opened 2001, and earlier this year En asked for ernment fundg to help through a "difficult time" Tim will now foc on new velopments at the executive director Gaynor Coley is also due to leave for a new job at the Royal Botanic Garns En spokman said although Sir Tim's day-to-day role had lsened, he was still the head of the role would be key velopg new partnerships through a recently-created subdivisn of En, the spokman employs more than 400 staff at the inic bm near St has twice been voted the bt UK leisure attractn by the public the Brish Travel Awards, but last year annual visor numbers dropped below one ln for the first received more than £130m om the public sector and the Millennium Commissn between 2001 and 2009, but rerd loss of nearly £2m 2010-11 and last year announced bts of £ 2009, a report by the South Wt Regnal Development Agency said En had ntributed an timated £805m to the enomy and had also benefed the lol area through s support of muni, schools and other on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s. In a nutshell, that’s Gaynor Coley’s sire – to turn chaos to lm. Gaynor Coley.

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On receivg the Award Gaynor said, “En is about celebratg the harmony and optimism of the human spir and what the World Harmony Run do so powerfully is brg people together wh the simple act of nng.

When Gay Coley joed En 1997 the Project was ltle more than a garn shed a sprawlg nursery shared by 15 passnate dreamers.

” In the years sce, wh Gay’s hand firmly at the tiller, En has attracted nearly 13 ln visors, generated more than £1 billn for the regnal enomy and staed 500jobs at the former clay quarry near St Atell, and thoands more beyond. Startg out as Fance Director, then beg Managg Director and Deputy Chief Executive, Gay is a relentls advote of darg to dream and anisg to liver. Gay has a passn for tn as a tool of transformatn and after growg up South Wal she studied Enomics at Universy College London and went on to qualify as a teacher at the Instute of Edutn.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND -FOUNR OF THE EN PROJECT TIM SM (LEFT) AND MANAGG DIRECTOR GAYNOR COLEY SPEAK WH THE PRCE OF WAL AND DUCHS OF CORNWALL DURG THEIR VIS TO THE EN PROJECT ST ATELL, CORNWALL.

Gay directs all the fancial, operatnal and mercial aspects of the Project, which has won numero awards over the years, many for exceptnal ctomer service. In 2005 the ICAEW (South Wt) award Gay the Bt All Rounr Trophy and 2009 she received the CBI Real Bs First Women Award Tourism and Leisure.

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ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialDe And Duchs Of Cornwall Vis The En ProjectST AUSTELL, ENGLAND - JULY 12: Tim Sm, Chief Executive and -founr of the En Project and Gaynor Coley, Managg Director share a joke wh Prce Charl, Prce of Wal and Cala, Duchs of Cornwall as they vis the En Project on July 12, 2011 St Atell, England.