Our Volunteers

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever does” (Margaret Mead)

If you would like to volunteer at SHOP, we can offer experience in retail work and event support. If you see yourself more as an ideas person, then we would encourage you to join SHOP’s non-executive advisory group where we discuss ideas for growing SHOP and making it stronger and more wonderful.

Call, email or visit for a chat.

JAYNE MARSHALL

Jayne is a founding member of SHOP and a Director of the Community Interest Company. Also Jayne is Co-Chair for the C.S.A.Q Traders and Residents Association.

Favourite Book: Can’t pick just one and don’t think two even comes close to covering me, but for now: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York

Favourite Band: Favourite man; Richard Hawley. Favourite woman: Adriana Alba.

Favourite Film: I think the first film I really thought a lot about was, The Virgin Suicides.

Hobbies: Reading, writing, sewing, volunteering, cats, speaking in Spanish.

Most likely to be… Late

BRETT ATKINSON

Brett is a founding member of SHOP and a Director of the Community Interest Company.

Favourite Film: Life is Beautiful (Shaun of the Dead and Rocky in a close joint second)

Favourite Band: The Witch and the Robot, Ben Folds and The Streets (lots of others from time to time, day to day) F.E.A.R by Ian Brown always has a strange effect on me.

Favourite Book: The Gift by Lewis Hyde and Rude Kids by Chris Donald

Hobbies: I’m no good at keeping secrets…..but I’m in a secret band and I’m a secret artist and I like gardening and stroking animals (cats and donkeys inparticular).

Most likely to be….watching a Man U game in The Colston Arms (previously Micawbers).

SIMON MORETON

Simon is on SHOP’s Advisory Board. He is completing his PhD at the University of Bristol. His thesis examines organisations that provide cheap studio space to visual artists.

Favourite Film Moments: That bit near the end of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King when they’re by the Gates of Mordor lookin’ all brave and the camera pans around and there’s this disinterested looking child in the saddle of one of the horses and not a hobbit; that bit in Spirited Away when they take the train; the way they talk in Philadelphia Story; they way they swear in Withnail and I.

Favourite Band: DIY music; Elephant 6; Meat Loaf; that bit in Britney
Spears’ Toxic where it goes ‘Whee ooo whee ooo’.

Favourite Book: Nature Is Your Guide. How to Find Your Way on Land
and Sea by Observing Nature By Harold Gatty; that Thomas Pynchon book
I pretend to have finished reading but that actually I’m only one sixteenth of the way through; One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Hobbies: Oh, you know.

Most likely to be…doing anything other than the thing I’m supposed to
be doing. Or pestering Brett. Or both.

BIANCA SOUCEK

Bianca is on SHOP’s Advisory Board. She is currently taking a break from her postgraduate studies at Bristol University.

Favourite book: The Fortunes of Poppy Treloar by Pixie O’Harris. Old children’s books that I can actually finish, basically.

Favourite band: Couldn’t pick a favourite, but Jackson C. Frank, Tom Vek, and Zombie Zombie would be among them!

Favourite film: Home Alone. Electroma gets the silver.

Hobbies: Food blogging, crafts, volunteering, painting, dymo labeling everything in sight etc…

Most likely to be…sprinkling salt on something.

ANDREW PACKWOOD

Andrew is on SHOP‘s Advisory Board. He works as a television editor and has spent some time helping organising community arts projects in the Midlands.

Favourite book: The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

Favourite band: A supergroup made up of Belle & Sebastian, Scott Walker and M. Ward…singing Jeffrey Lewis songs…with Tom Waits growling and banging stuff in the background.

Favourite film: Annie Hall and It’s a Wonderful Life - don’t make me choose!

Hobbies: Eating nice foods; watching live musics; pluralising stuffs. Oh, and ping-pong of course!

Most likely to be…hungry…or full.

SALLY ROSE

Sally is on SHOP‘s Advisory Board. She works within community-led organisations and charities who work with asylum seekers and refugees.

Favourite Film: Some Like It Hot

Favourite Band: Pulp

Favourite Book: 100 Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Hobbies: Sewing, making cosmetics, watching films and volunteering

Most likely to be…thinking about what answer to put here.

TARA JUDAH

Tara is SHOP’s Overseas CineSHOP Advisor. She is a freelance writer in all things film and visual media.

Favourite book: I think it’s 1984. But it could also be Brave New World. Or The Bell Jar.

Favourite band: The Muppets.

Favourite film: This is the most difficult question I can think of. I don’t have one, but if I did, it’s not entirely unlikely that it couldn’t be Bill Morrison’s Decasia.

Hobbies: I like looking, watching, viewing and perceiving.

Most Likely to be…hungry.

Rob Wicke

Rob is on SHOP’s Advisory Board. He is currently unemployed so spends most of his time on his allotment.

Favourite Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
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Favourite Band: Savage Garden

Favourite Book: Crock of Gold by James Stephens.

Hobbies: Sowing his seed.

Most likely to be… making a (garden related) joke….Naaat.

LYNDA MARSHALL

Lynda is a member of SHOP’s Advisory Board. She has worked in a variety of environments and currently as a Secretary within a mental health team for the NHS.

Favourite Film: I’m a big movie goer, so it’s difficult to say. But I saw Moulin Rouge over and over and Standing in the Shadows of Mowtown. Most recently I loved Banksy’s Exit via the Gift Shop.

Favourite Band: Van Morrisson, Christie Moore and anything Motown. I find I’m getting a wider range of taste for things like Celtic Harp, Indian and African music.

Favourite Book: I’m a big reader but recently Arctic Explorer by Tom Crean and Zeitoun by Dave Eggers.

Hobbies: Anything to do with healthy living and Eating. I like to get places off my own steam and eat nice healthy food. I love to bake and sew. I’m trying to learn to garden and I’m a motorcyclist.

Most likely to be…in a coffee shop.