THE former chairman of the West Pier Trust will head up a new trust looking after another of Brighton s beloved landmarks.

Glynn Jones has been named chairman of the shadow board for the new trust to take on the running of the Royal Pavilion and Museums.

The shadow board is responsible for guiding the launch of the new organisation and shaping its structure. It will hold its first meeting at the end of June to discuss legal arrangements with the council and set up its charitable status.

The trustees’ are unpaid but some can claim expenses.

Mr Jones, who is also a former Brighton and Hove City Council chief executive and ex-chairman of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust, stepped down from the West Pier Trust in April.

Also on the board are Tim Aspinall, CEO of legal advisers Aspinall Consultants, museum consultant Jane Weeks, Michael Bedingfield, trustee of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, former University of Brighton vice-chancellor Julian Crampton and Danny Homan, representing The Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival.

There are also three councillors on the board; Labour’s Alan Robins, Conservative Ann Norman and Green Phelim MacCafferty.

The trust is being seen as a way of securing the long-term future of the Royal Pavilion and Museums with the ability to seek new means of funding and could eventually be combined with the Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival.