The Management Committee currently has several sub-committees where members can use their skills and expertise to focus on specific issues in more detail.

Retiring members of the Management Committee may stay on sub-committees if they have a specialist skill which is not being replaced by new Management Committee members. 

Committees may also invite SoA members with specific skills to join each sub-committee where needed.

The Membership Sub-Committee 

• Members: Charles Harris (chair), Julia Williams, Vineet Lal, Rhona Snelling.
• Staff: Emma Boniwell.
• Frequency: 
• Aims: 

The Finance Sub-Committee

•    Members: Simon Cann (chair), Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, Bob Swarup, and Ian Giles. 
•    Staff: Anna Ganley, Katharine King.
•    Frequency: the FSC usually meets twice a year but may meet more often if needed.
•    Aims: to advise on and scrutinise the SoA’s investments, budgets, salaries, pensions and other resources, and to make recommendations to the Management Committee. The only permanent standing sub-committee.

The Policy and Campaign Sub-Committee

•    Members: Harriet Evans (chair), Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, Charles Harris, Abie Longstaff, Juliet McKenna.
•    Staff: Anna Ganley, Keith Ashby, Ambre Morvan, Lindsay Bennett Ford.
•    Frequency: three-four times a year.
•    Aims: to enable more detailed briefing about ongoing campaigns, both learning the issues and monitoring progress. To act as a ‘first response’ group to suggestions for campaigns before decisions by Management Committee. To examine ways in which individual Committee members might be more directly involved in supporting campaigns and lobbying.

The Risk Sub-Committee

• Members: Helen Epega (chair), Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, Robbie Steinhouse, Harriet Evans.
• Staff: Katharine King.
• Frequency: 
• Aims: 

The Governance Sub-Committee

• Members: Simon Cann (chair), Charles Harris, Simon Michael, Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin.
• Staff: Anna Ganley, Keith Ashby.
• Frequency: 
• Aims: 

The Author magazine Advisory Panel 

• Members: 
• Staff: Anna Ganley.
• Frequency: every six months, with additional meetings as needed.
• Aims: a consultative body to support the strategy and development of The Author publication.

Other Groups

The SoA also has a staff-led Inclusivity Network, an Authors and Illustrators Sustainability Group and several Bedford Row building networks to share resources with staff throughout the building.

Sub-Committees that are no longer in operation:

• The Contingency Fund Steering Group
• The Mentorship Sub-Committee
• The Property Sub-Committee