We could not have the Youlou Arts Centre without the help of PSCS – Saunders-Musser

Artist, Camille Saunders-Musser is the founder of the non-profit Youlou Arts Foundation which operates Youlou Arts Centre, located at Villa. Saunders-Musser credits Camille Crichton and
Professional Secretarial and Consultancy Services with helping make this a reality.

Having been introduced to Crichton by her late father, Thomas Saunders, in 1998, Saunders-Musser has been working with that “extremely professional” entity since then.

“I was having the first one-woman show in St Vincent and I needed someone to do some typing for me and so he said ‘you know, you should try this young woman, she is really good’ so I did and Camille”, being a very friendly person “talked to me and wanted to know what I was doing.”

Saunders-Musser explained that she wanted to do some art education with children in St Vincent.

“She really encouraged me and offered her place”- a space at Frenches Gate where Crichton had been operating an Institute of Professional Development for underprivileged students interested in getting into the secretarial field.

“ That’s where we started the first art classes for children during the July/August holidays.” After about two years, as the programme expanded and more space was required the move was made to the then Richmond Hill Government School.

“We have grown since then,” Saunders-Musser says, but, “it’s not really about me, she is the person really behind all of this. She gets her staff to type up our registration forms, any office-like things that we need to happen.” Crichton’s business handles the range of service needs of the Youlou Arts Centre.

“It’s like the office for YOULOU Arts Centre. She handles all our funds, she does help us with the banking – honestly, I would say we could not have the Youlou Arts Centre without the help of Professional Secretarial and Consultancy Services.”

Saunders-Musser sees Crichton as very hands-on. “She makes sure that things are in place, and everything is accounted for, that you really follow the right procedure in doing things and that it is done correctly.”

Very honest, dependable and a resourceful person are terms used by Saunders-Musser to describe Crichton, with whom she shares a warm friendship that blossomed over the years since that business encounter decades ago.

“We have become friends because of this. I really depend on her, and I could not have the Centre without the force of the Professional Secretarial and Consultancy Service behind me”.