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Frances Mary Sorrell, Lady Sorrell, (née Newell) is a British designer and a renowned advocate and campaigner for creative education. She was the Chancellor of the
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from June 2015-2020.


Career

Sorrell co-founded the design business Newell and Sorrell in 1976 with her husband John Sorrell. Newell and Sorrell became one of Europe’s biggest and most successful design and identity consultancies, with clients that included British Airways, the Body Shop and the Royal Mail. The business won numerous awards for creativity and effectiveness, including eleven DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, five Silver
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Awards, five Clios, five Gold Awards in New York Festivals and two Art Directors Club of Europe Awards. In 1997, Newell and Sorrell merged with Interbrand to form Interbrand Newell & Sorrell. Frances and John left Interbrand Newell & Sorrell in 2000.


The Sorrell Foundation

Frances and John Sorrell co-founded the Sorrell Foundation in 1999 with the aim of inspiring creativity in young people and improving lives with good design. The Sorrell Foundation has worked with more than 100,000 young people across the UK on a range of programmes, including joinedupdesignforschools, the Young Design Programme, myplace and Design out Crime. In 2009, Frances and John Sorrell set up the National Saturday Club network. Lady Frances Sorrell is co-chair of the Sorrell Foundation.


The Saturday Club Trust

Sorrell is co-founder and trustee of the Saturday Club Trust, a new charity formed in 2016 to take over the development of the Saturday Clubs from the Sorrell Foundation. The Saturday Club network offers young people aged 13–16 the opportunity to study in their local college or university on Saturdays for free. Currently there are around 50 Art&Design Saturday Clubs across the UK, as well as growing numbers in Science&Engineering, Fashion&Business and Writing&Talking.


Other roles

Sorrell was Chancellor of the
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from 2015 to 2020. She has had many other roles and appointments including Visiting Professor at
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, Trustee of Mencap, and a Director of the
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Enterprises Board. Frances has been a judge for many design awards, including
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, the
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Design Advisory Group from 2001 to 2003 and the British Council Design Advisory Group from 2004 to 2008. Sorrell co-authored ‘Joinedupdesignforschools’ (Merrell, 2005) with John Sorrell.


Honours and awards

Sorrell is an Honorary Fellow of
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Plymouth College of Art Arts University Plymouth is a public university located in Plymouth in South West England. The former Plymouth College of Art was officially granted university status in 2022. In April 2019 the specialist college was awarded taught degree a ...
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Hereford College of Arts Hereford College of Arts (HCA) is an art school based in Herefordshire, United Kingdom. Description It offers courses in both further and higher education fields, in Art & Design, Music and Performing Arts, to national and international studen ...
and the
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. She holds Honorary Doctorates from the
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,
Coventry University Coventry University is a Public university, public research university in Coventry, England. The origins of Coventry University can be linked to the Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry School of Design in 1843. It was known as Lancheste ...
and
University for the Creative Arts The University for the Creative Arts is a specialist art and design university in Southern England. It was formed in 2005 as University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester when the Kent Institu ...
. In 2008, Frances and John Sorrell received the
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President’s Award for their outstanding contribution to creativity. Sorrell was appointed
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(OBE) in the
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for services to art and design education and
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(CBE) in the
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for services to design and the creative industries.


Early life

Sorrell was born in Woking, Surrey. She studied at
Epsom School of Art Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College (SIAD) was an art college in the United Kingdom from 1994 to 2005. It was formed from the merger of West Surrey College of Art and Design (1969–1995) and Epsom School of Art and Design (189 ...
ow part of the University for the Creative Arts and attended free Saturday-morning art classes there from the age of 14. Her experience of Saturday morning art classes inspired her later foundation of the National Art&Design Saturday Club.


References

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