Jeremy Smith

Trustee

After leaving school and training as an actor with the Mountview Theatre School, Jeremy Smith worked in arts administration for several years, first with the Royal Opera House and then as arts and entertainments manager for the London Borough of Enfield, where he was instrumental in the creation of Millfield House Arts Centre and Theatre.  In the mid 1980s, Jeremy visited the Findhorn Community in the north of Scotland, a time from which he dates his awakening interest in the spiritual core of life.

In 1988, Jeremy decided on a career change and moved into adult education, firstly with the education department of the trade union Nalgo and then with its successor, Unison, before in 2000 becoming a freelance consultant in the field of adult and further education. Following a decision taken by him and his wife to send their daughter to a Steiner Waldorf school, Jeremy became more and more interested in anthroposophy and in finding out what lay behind the education, to the point where he became the communications manager for the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (now Waldorf UK) and subsequently the education facilitator for the Rudolf Steiner School, Kings Langley. Unusually for a non-teacher, Jeremy was asked to become the chair of the College of Teachers at Kings Langley, a task which he carried out for three years.

In 2014, after moving to Forest Row in East Sussex, Jeremy was asked to join the Board of Tablehurst Farm and to take on the role of registered manager of the farm’s care home, a small residential facility for three adults with learning disabilities. Also in that year, Jeremy started (and continues to write) a weblog with an anthroposophical perspective on world affairs and spiritual development.

Jeremy has been a trustee of Emerson College since 2022, where he has been very involved as a Board member with the merger process with Ruskin Mill Land Trust. He retired from Tablehurst Farm in 2024 but continues to be busy, not only as a trustee of the new Emerson Board but also as a trustee of the Hermes Trust (an anthroposophical charity) and as a director of the anthroposophical publishing house, Temple Lodge Press.