Sally Rogers Administrator Expand If you phone the CRT you will probably talk to Sally. She is the calm, friendly and knowledgeable voice on the end of our telephones. Sally is our administration hero and makes sure everyone has everything they need, including our Friends, volunteers, Air BnB guests, staff and Trustees. Sally is passionate about the countryside and delighted to be working at the CRT. Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Julie Robbins Marketing Manager Expand Marketing Manager Julie is your first port of call if you have an enquiry about marketing. She has worked in marketing for many years and particularly enjoyed her time spent in the gardening industry, which focused on grow your own and flowering seeds. Living locally to the CRT's headquarters in Cambridge, Julie has always enjoyed the beautiful surrounding countryside. She loves going on family nature walks with her children and is also a member of a local walking group. Contact:Email Please note, Julie works Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri 9.30am - 3pm, and Wed 11am-1pm, so might be slightly delayed responding to your contact. Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Lucy Nightingale Clerk to the Board of Trustees Expand I am a keen walker and love being out in nature in all seasons. This, combined with a lot of time amid the heather and peat bogs of an island in Orkney made me passionate about our countryside and it's long term future. I'm really happy to be working, alongside my colleagues, at CRT supporting our work, as a clerk to the board of trustees. I can occasionally be found out and about, volunteering as a master composter sharing composting tips with others when I can. Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Hayley Neal Head of Development Expand Head of Development Head of Development means that Hayley oversees the fundraising and marketing functions at the CRT, leading a wonderful team to promote and expand the work of the charity. “I love the variety that fundraising brings. I enjoy spending time talking to people about the causes which they are often very passionate about.” She has worked in fundraising and business management for over 15 years in a large range of charitable organisations including heritage, the arts, healthcare, learning disability, mental health, environment, animal welfare, education, and religious buildings. When not working, Hayley can be found taking lovely long walks in the countryside with her family and their mad springer spaniel. Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Ruth Moss Conservation and Mapping Officer Expand Conservation and Mapping Officer Ruth grew up on a 125-acre farm in the North Yorkshire National Park and spent her childhood exploring the farm's grasslands, woods, and moorland. This is undoubtedly where her love for wildlife blossomed. When she was a teenager, her family moved down to Wiltshire where she studied A-level biology. Her love for biology grew and led her to undertake a BSc degree in 'International Wildlife Biology' at the University of South Wales. Her dissertation was an independent research project in plant bioacoustics - a topic she found across when exploring the literature. The notion fascinated and astounded her lecturers. Despite it being a relatively understudied subject area, she undertook the design. She completed the experiment and discovered some very significant results. "I feel very fortunate and grateful to be joining the Countryside Restoration Trust in a role which combines my agricultural interests my upbringing, and my passion for wildlife conservation together." Ruth has recently given a interview to Little Green Change about her role, how she got here and advice to anyone wanting a career in conservation: Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Kerriann McLackland Head of Estates Expand Head of Estates Having been brought up in the countryside and now living on the beautiful South Downs, I am very aware of the inter-connectedness of food production and the natural world. There has never been a more important time for farming and nature to work hand in hand. The changes brought about by leaving the EU combined with the enormous imperative to reverse our lost biodiversity brings both challenges and opportunities for British farmers. What most attracted me to this role is getting stuck in with helping CRT tenants to be at the forefront of delivering a living, working countryside for wildlife and people. As a rural surveyor with many years' experience working for institutional landowners such as the National Trust, RSPB and local authorities, as well as in the private sector, I look forward to both bringing my skills and knowledge but equally to learning from CRT tenants and staff. I am a great believer in collaborative working - it is when everyone brings together their expertise and ideas with the aim of meeting a common goal that the most exciting things happen. Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Vince Lea Conservation Officer Expand Conservation Officer Vince has been fascinated by the biological world since he entered it! Having read everything he could find in his parents' household encyclopaedia, he surprised his teachers at school with knowledge such as the unusual Z- form of DNA. Studying Biological Sciences at UEA opened his eyes to the beauty of biological molecules and the study of genetics. Although he went to study ecology, the potential of crop genetics studied at the John Innes Institute offered him an alternative career path: improving the performance of our crop plants can make more efficient land use possible, freeing up land for nature and reducing the need for chemical treatments on crops. Watching nature was a weekend hobby for Vince and a mid-life career change allowed Vince to be paid for his hobby. His role at CRT has expanded to include aspects of conservation work. He has run a mink-control operation in Cambridgeshire, linked to other operations across East Anglia, and which is hoped will provide a model for future eradication nationally. Water voles have now returned to the Bourn Brook thanks to the removal of many mink over the last ten years. Vince is also involved in some education work at CRT. While he is hopeful that the next generation will have a strong voice for nature, he is concerned about most children's lack of understanding about wildlife. As well as working part-time for CRT in his wildlife-monitoring role, Vince does contract work surveying birds for organisations such as the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and other species for local conservation organisations. He is invested in achieving a sustainable lifestyle, by growing vegetables and harvesting energy to run the home, for example. Vince is a regular contributor to The Lark, and helps spread the word about CRT by talking to the local radio station from time to time. He is always happy to talk about wildlife with anyone! Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside...
Gail Jefferson Administrator to Head of Estates and Head of Conservation Expand Administrator to Head of Estates and Head of Conservation Gail joined the CRT in January 2024. Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Andrew James Head of Content Expand Head of Content Head of Content Andrew’s role is to highlight and promote the vital work we do at the CRT to the wider public through all possible media channels. “I have a passion for wildlife and I’m excited by what the CRT stands for – sustainability and the protection of fauna, flora and the wider habitat, alongside the importance of farming.” Andrew has been a specialist magazine journalist and photographer for over 30 years, and he continues to write articles in the UK photography press and online. He’s also something of an adventurer, having led trips to wilderness places such as Antarctica, Eastern Russia, Arctic, Kenya, The Congo, and The Falklands. When not writing or out taking photos, Andrew can be found playing competitively on a tennis court or dabbing oil paint on a canvas at his easel! Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Rebecca Dutton PR and Policy Officer Expand Head of Content Rebecca’s role is to help tell the CRT’s story and highlight the vital work of the charity to the media and public. She also works on policy related to the CRT’s approach to nature-friendly farming. “I love the countryside and being able to write and talk about it in the media as well as help regenerate it for future generations is something I am very passionate about.” Trained as a journalist working both in the UK and abroad, Rebecca then moved into the world of PR, where she has worked for both charities and agencies for the last 10 years. Rebecca grew up in Surrey but was introduced to a more rural way of life when she met her husband, who was born and bred on a dairy farm in North Shropshire. When not working, Rebecca spends her time as a taxi driver for her two young boys and all their sporting activities as well as running, hiking, skiing and exploring the world. Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Nick Dobbs Community Engagement Manager Expand Community Engagement Manager Born in Nairobi, Nick’s early formative years were spent in Kenya, Malaysia, and Singapore where his fascination with the natural world was first nurtured. Nick’s professional background was in the cruise and travel sector and was part of a team that launched 2 pioneering soft-adventure cruise lines. He relocated from Suffolk to Dorset in 1996 as General Manager for Condor Ferries and headed up Veolia Eurolines’ pan-European marketing, commercial and PR interests based in Paris.Whilst running his own consultancy 2011-2017, Nick began volunteering as a licensed herpetologist for the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust (ARC) including giving talks about his field research for ARC, BNSS and Ecology Faculties at UK Universities. In 2017, Nick realised a longstanding desire to work in UK wildlife conservation and joined the Wildlife Trust (principally Dorset Wildlife Trust) as a fundraiser before going on to coach and mentor Woodland Trust’s Southern England membership recruitment team. “Wildlife has co-existed, specialised and thrived alongside farming here in the UK for millennia and I am delighted to join the CRT team to help encourage more Friends to support our efforts in reversing declines in farmland biodiversity”. Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Helena Darragh Head of Conservation and Land Management Expand Head of Conservation and Land Management Helena Darragh has recently joined the CRT and is looking forward to leading the conservation team and activities. Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Emily Coleman Project Officer- Mink Eradication for Waterlife Recovery East Expand Project Officer - Mink Eradication for Waterlife Recovery East Emily has always been passionate about the environment and conservation. After getting her degree in Ecology from the University of East Anglia, she accepted a six-month voluntary position with the Zoological Society of London, conducting field research in Ghana to feed into the development of sustainable wildlife management indicators for integration into timber certification standards. Following this, she worked with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) for almost a decade, firstly in Membership and Development, later in Research Support. For the latter, she oversaw project management processes (from inception/tendering to reporting and evaluation) for work ranging from small consultancy contracts to large-scale research projects. She has also worked as a field surveyor for an ecological consultancy, carrying out surveys for various protected species, but particularly for bats, reptiles and dormice. “I am really delighted to now be with the CRT and the mink project, in a role through which I can make a truly significant, position contribution to wildlife conservation in the UK. It will be a challenge and take a lot of hard work, but it’s just brilliant!” Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Hannah Bosence Volunteer Manager Expand Volunteer Manager I am originally from Devon, I grew up on a small-holding on the edge of Dartmoor but settled in Dorset after moving here for work. I studied Environmental Education at Plymouth University and went on to work in both educational and practical roles in the environmental charity sector. The move to Dorset was prompted by a permanent job offer with the countryside team of Dorset Council, where I primarily worked with volunteers looking after a variety of sites and habitats. More recently I have been working with a land management charity called the Land Trust, looking after their sites in the South West but with quite a lot of travel around the country. I applied for the role because it just seemed such a good fit with my C.V! I'm also a fan of the CRT and think the work being done is really exciting, so it seemed too good an opportunity to pass up. When I get started my main focus will be to get to know and understand the current volunteers, farms and staff of course! And then see if there's anything from my background that might help. I'm looking forward to getting stuck in as I'm quite a practical person, which is something I've missed in my current role which is all office based! In my spare time I really enjoy walking my dog (Betty, a very friendly Flat-Coat x Golden Retriever!) cooking and pottery. Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Jenny Ashdown Assistant Conservation Officer - Dorset Expand Assistant Conservation Officer - Dorset I am particularly interested in wildlife, land management, data and mapping, so I am very excited about this position at Bere Marsh Farm. My role includes collecting and collating wildlife data, starting a wildflower seed collecting group and writing a land management plan for the Angela Hughes Nature Reserve on the old railway line. I am a member of Dorset Coppice Group and Dorset Flora Group, so I enjoy activities with them in my spare time. The flora group field trips to different habitats in Dorset are a great way to learn and to discover new places. When I get time I enjoy craft including knitting and crochet, although I'm not very good at it and I would like to learn more greenwood craft. At home it's never boring with dogs plus goats and chickens that are often trying to get indoors. Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate
Danielle Dewe CEO Expand CEO Danielle was appointed CEO of the CRT in 2021. Her role is to develop the overall strategic direction of the CRT and to oversee the operations of the Trust. Most recently this has involved steering the CRT through an intense period of change management across our multiple sites. Working with the support of the Trustees, Danielle has managed to revolutionise the team and has started to direct the CRT to where it needs to be. Danielle is also responsible for the management of the CRT's property portfolio in conjunction with the Property Team, all Governance, Fundraising and Communications, People and Culture. Contact:Email Please make a donation today so the CRT can continue to restore a living, working countryside... Please select a donation amount (required) £100 Helps with the cost of providing habitats for a range of farmland wildlife. £50 Allows our conservation team to spend an afternoon monitoring the success of the CRT community’s activities. £20 Provides our volunteers with resources to complete essential conservation tasks. Other Donate