Staff profiles
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust staff cover many areas of work including practical conservation, wildlife advice, education, commercial bookings and membership.
On this page you'll find details for all the staff at the Trust. You can email them by clicking on their names and access their teams by clicking on the appropriate link.
Colin Raven - Director
Key Responsibilities: Overall management and leadership of the Trust on a day-to-day basis. Development of long-term strategy. External advocacy and work with key partners.
Conservation Team
Our Conservation Team is headed by Helen Woodman and includes all the staff directly involved in conservation including those working on reserves, planning, agriculture, forestry, wetlands and grasslands.
Helen Woodman - Head of Conservation
Key Responsibilities: Management of the Wider Countryside and Reserves teams. Responsible for the delivery of the Worcestershire Living Landscapes.
Rob Allen - Reserves Team Leader
Key Responsibilities: Manager of the Reserves Team. Overseeing land management, species and habitat monitoring, volunteer recruitment and engagement as well as budgetary control of Trust reserves.
Andy Harris - Northern Reserves Officer
Key Responsibilities: Management of the Trust's northern reserves including Chaddesley Wood, The Devil's Spittleful, Pound Green Common and Wilden Marsh.
Dominique Cragg - Western Reserves Officer
Key Responsibilities: Management of the Trust's western reserves including Trench Wood, Monkwood and The Knapp and Papermill.
Eleanor Reast - Eastern Reserves Officer
Key responsibilities: Management of the Trust's eastern reserves including Eades and Foster's Green Meadows, Grafton Wood and Upton Warren.
David Molloy - Southern Reserves Officer
Key Responsibilities: Management of the Trust’s southern reserves including Hollybed Farm Meadows, Hill Court Farm, South West Meadow reserves and Tiddesley Wood.
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.
Iain Turbin - Practical Land Management Officer
Key Responsibilities: The first point of contact for all Trust volunteering enquiries and requests, Iain also runs the Conservation Trainee Team scheme, providing training and experience for people looking for their first nature conservation role.
Michael Liley - Grasslands and 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 - Senior Land Advisor
Key responsibilities: Management of the Trust's arable sites and advice to landowners in Living Landscape project areas on environmentally sensitive farming practice. Management of the Catchment Partnership Agricultural Advisers team.
Jess Nott - Catchment Partnership Agriculture Advisor
Key responsibilities: To engage landowners and farmers to aid in the protection of our environment and reduce water pollution through infrastructure investments and management scheme, the Salmon in the Stour project and work in the Teme CABA (catchment-based approach) in Worcestershire.
Robin Bickley - Catchment Partnership Agriculture Advisor
Key Responsibilities: To engage landowners and farmers to aid in the protection of our environment and reduce water pollution through infrastructure investment and management schemes, a Batchley Brook project and work in the Worcestershire Middle Severn CABA (catchment-based approach).
Emily Williams - Catchment Partnership Agriculture Advisor
Key Responsibilities: To engage landowners and farmers to aid in the protection of our environment and reduce water pollution through infrastructure investment and management schemes.
Daniel Roberts - Water Environment and Agriculture Officer
Key responsibilities: Leading on the Water Environment Grant project, deliverying advice and guidance to landowners.
Steve Bloomfield - Senior 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. Manages WWT elements of the Natural Networks project in collaboration with Worcestershire County Council.
Sean Webber - Natural Networks Officer
Key responsibilities: Delivers habitat surveys, management advice and assistance with grant applications for the Natural Networks project.
Jasmine Walters - Natural Networks Officer
Key Responsibilities: Delivers habitat surveys, management advice and assistance with grant applications for the Natural Networks project.
Resources team
Our Resources Team is headed by Mike Perry and includes all the staff involved in Trust finance and administration, fundraising, membership, communications and education.
Mike Perry - Head of Resources
Key Responsibilities: Leads the activities and the development of the Trust’s fundraising, communications and administrative operations.
Julie Allen - Membership Officer
Key Responsibilities: Promotes and encourages Trust membership and carries out all membership services.
Anne Williams - Membership Development Officer
Key Responsibilities:Promotes and encourages Trust membership, working with staff and volunteers across the Trust as well as partners and supporters in the wider community.
Sian Bakewell - Grants Officer (part-time)
Key Responsibilities: Generates income for the Trust’s work through grant applications and bids to other funding sources.
Rebecca Bradshaw-King - Funding Development Officer (part time)
Key Responsibilities: Generates income for the Trust’s work through grant applications and by delivering a range of fundraising activities, schemes and initiatives.
Charlie Bird - Dropping Well Farm Project Development Officer
Key Responsibilities: Developing the Saving Worcestershire’s Heathlands project to secure funding for the purchase of Dropping Well Farm.
Liz Bunney – Hardwick Green Meadows Project Officer (part-time)
Main responsibility is the delivery of the Trusts community engagement project in and around our Hardwick Green Meadows Reserve, in Eldersfield Marsh in the southwest corner of the county. This project works with local schools and the community more widely. The project officer helps to facilitate an understanding of the importance of these historic floodplain hay meadows and traditional hay meadows.
Wendy Carter - Communications Lead
Key Responsibilities: Leads the Trust’s communications work. This includes press and media liaison, publications, website, social media and interpretation.
Nick Packham - Senior Engagement Officer
Key Responsibilities: Oversees our engagement work. This includes our work with schools and young people and our campaigns and events. Nick also oversees engagement projects ranging from oral history to community engagement in specific areas of Worcestershire.
Marissa Ryland - Engagement Officer - Education
Key responsibilities: Main responsibility is developing and delivering our work with schools at Lower Smite Farm, on nature reserves and in schools working alongside our sessional tutors and volunteers. Marissa manages the wildlife garden at Lower Smite farm and helps deliver a wide range of engagement work.
Sadie Carr Simons - Engagement Officer – Campaigns and Events (part-time)
Main responsibility is the design and delivery of a range of public campaigns and events. These aim to raise awareness and inspire people to act to support wildlife and nature conservation across Worcestershire. Sadie also supports wider engagement activities for the Trust.
Ben Rees - Engagement Officer – Youth (part-time)
Main responsibility is working with young people, typically between the ages of 11 and 18. Ben works to raise awareness and inspire this age range helping to instill a genuine appreciation of wildlife and nature conservation. Ben is working with schools, other groups and individuals in this age range. Ben also supports wider engagement activities within the Trust.
Laura Thomson - Finance and Administration Manager
Key Responsibilities: Oversees a wide range of financial and support duties including maintenance issues, recycling, health & safety and first aid.
Pauline Gardner - Administration Assistant
Key Responsibilities: Carries out a wide range of clerical and support duties at the Trust.
Moira Conn - Finance and Administration Assistant / Meetings & Conference Organiser
Key Responsibilities: Carries out a wide range of clerical and support duties in her role as Finance and Administration Assistant. Moira also manages all enquiries for our meetings and conference rooms and supports meetings and events on the day.
Emma Wurmli - Volunteer Development Officer (part-time)
Key responsibilities: Improving communication with volunteers and helping to recruit new volunteers for a wide range of opportunities at the Trust.
Membership Recruiters
You will see our team of membership recruiters at events, shops and high streets across Worcestershire. They talk to members of the public about our work to encourage more people to join us as members to support us. This team are employed by South West Wildlife Fundraising Limited, a company jointly owned by Worcestershire Wildlife Trust and seven other Wildlife Trusts in the South West of England.
Steve Cameron
Area Manager
Responsible for overseeing the team of Membership Recruiters.
Paddy Smith
Membership Recruiter (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Chris Morris
Membership Recruiter (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Ben Darnbrough
Membership Recruiter (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Simon Warr
Membership Recruiter (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.