one of our foundation governors:

Charlotte Copeman

Whilst I moved up to live in Overton only about 10 years ago, I’ve been coming up here all my life as my parents, grandparents and great grandparents all lived here. I even went to St Mary’s for a short time as well when I was very small.   As a result, Overton as a village is very important to me and when I finally came ‘home’ I wanted to get involved in lots of different things and really get stuck into village life after many years in London.  

As well as being a Foundation Governor – I joined the governing body about 4 years ago now – I’m also a Community Councillor and amongst other things I help organise the Village Fete each year.  I also support St Mary’s church through the Friends of St Mary’s and help with fundraising.  All that, as well as my work as a self employed Administrator keeps me pretty busy but in my downtime I enjoy relaxing with friends over a glass (or two!) of wine, cooking and doing a bit of binge watching on Netflix!  I also keep my eye out for fun ideas for edible gifts to make for friends and family although with varying degrees of success.  Recently these have included Damson gin (which turned out to be rather powerful!) and an army of bunnies made out of Ferrero Rocher and pipe cleaners!  There are those who say it is legendary what I will do to avoid doing the gardening and the ironing…!