Our Conservation Team is headed by David Dench and includes all the staff directly involved in conservation including those working on reserves, planning, agriculture, forestry, wetlands and grasslands.
You can email any of our staff by clicking on their names.
Reserves Team (and click here for the Wider Countryside Team)
Helen Woodman
Reserves Team Leader
Key Responsibilities: Manager of the Reserves Team, overseeing land management , species and habitat monitoring, volunteer recruitment and engagement, and budgetary control of Trust reserves.
Andy Harris
Northern Reserves Officer
Key Responsibilities: Manages the northern Trust reserves; including Upton Warren, The Devil's Spittleful, Ipsley Alders and Wilden Marsh.
James Hitchcock
Central Reserves Officer
Key Responsibilities: Responsible for the management of 19 reserves in central Worcestershire through working with volunteers, contractors, local farmers and the public.
Rob Allen
Southern Reserves Officer
Key Responsibilities: Managing the Trust’s nature reserves in the south of the county in collaboration with our volunteer reserve managers.
John Hodson
Volunteer Squad Officer
Key Responsibilities: Leads the part-time volunteer team tasked with assisting the reserves officers with all aspects of practical habitat management and maintenance on reserves.
Anna Bunney
Volunteer Co-ordinator/Conservation Assistant
Key Responsibilities: Co-ordinates the Trust's volunteers and helps the reserve officers in practical conservation tasks and running volunteer work parties.
Wider Countryside Team
Michael Liley
Local Wildlife Sites Officer
Key responsibilities: Administering the Local Wildlife Sites System in Worcestershire – including listing, review and monitoring of sites, and giving management advice to landowners.
Caroline Corsie
Grasslands and Agriculture Officer
Key responsibilities: Management of the Trust's arable sites and advice to landowners in Living Landscape project areas on environmentally sensitive farming practice.
Steve Bloomfield
Conservation Officer – Planning
Key Responsibilities: Leads the Trust’s input into the planning and development control process with Local Authorities, the public and other partners.
Lucy Wood
Water and Wetlands Officer (part-time)
Key Responsibilities: Co-leads the Trust's wetland conservation activities, including habitat creation and restoration projects. One of two implementation officers on the Bow Brook Project.