Ann Limb

Dame Ann Geraldine Limb (born 13 February 1953) is a British educationalist, business leader, charity chair and philanthropist.

From 2011 to 2019, Limb was chair of the country's top performing LEP, South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP).

In 1998 Limb founded the Helena Kennedy Foundation, a social mobility charity supporting access to higher education.

[16] In 2021 Limb set up the Limb Family Endowment Fund at the Stables Lane Dankworth Centre to engage the widest range of people in music and the arts, particularly giving access to the young, disabled, and people from economically and socially deprived backgrounds.

Limb made a significant donation to fund the standing stone hewn in Cumbrian slate designed and hand cut by Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley which features prominently in the Burial Ground.

[46][47] Upon taking up her role as Chair of the Scouts in 2015, Limb was interviewed by Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

[48] She subsequently appeared as a guest on Radio 4's Great Lives nominating George Fox, founder of Quakerism.

[50] Having entered into a civil partnership on 21 December 2006, Limb married her partner Dr. Margaret Cook, with whom she has shared her life since 1991, on 11 May 2019[51] and lives with her in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.