Roanne Dods obituary

My friend Roanne Dods, who has died of cancer aged 51, was founding director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, through which she distributed £14m of grants to a vast range of arts organisations over 11 years.She was born in Peru to expat parents, Jean (nee Mennie) and Robin Dods, who worked in the fabric industry, and who also had two sons. The family moved to Milan when Roanne was 10. She boarded at Wellington school, Ayr, and went on to study French, Arabic and moral philosophy at th