Worcestershire Wildlife Trust team March 2025
Our staff
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.
Mike Perry - Chief Executive Officer
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.
Tomos Holloway - 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.
Thomas Watkins - Central Reserves Officer
Key Responsibilities: Management of the Trust’s central reserves including Chaddesley Woods NNR, Piper's Hill and Dodderhill Common and Trench Wood.
Jack Reeves - Climate Change and Wildlife Officer
Paul Harris/2020VISION
Key Responsibilities: Monitoring Trust greenhouse gas emissions and managing projects to reduce emissions and improve sustainability, investigating impacts of climate change on our reserves and adaptation strategies.
Andy Bucklitch - 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.
Conservation Trainees
Key Responsibilities: Conservation trainees carry out practical maintenance and habitat management on nature reserves across the county. Trainees volunteer with us for 12 months and receive training in practical skills relevant to the role, whilst gaining the knowledge and experience needed to begin a career in wildlife conservation.
Our current trainees are: Derren Ball, Jack Hobday and Jess Morrison.
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.
Jasmine Walters - Wildlife and Farming Officer
Key Responsibilites: Leads the Trust’s input into Local Wildlife Sites and assists with delivery of nature based conservation work at a landscape scape. Oversees the Lower Smite Farm volunteers. Provides ecological evidence and monitoring support for WWT’s land management.
Beth Norris - Wildlife and Water officer
Key responsibilities: Leading the Trust’s input into water and wetland advice, assisting with delivery of nature-based conservation work at a landscape scape. Trust representative on 4 Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) partnerships, co-host for Worcestershire Middle Severn CaBA.
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.
Finley Reynolds - Natural Networks Officer
Key Responsibilities: Delivers habitat surveys, management advice and assistance with grant applications for the Natural Networks project.
Becca Bratt - Natural Networks Officer
Key Responsibilities: Delivers habitat surveys, management advice and assistance with grant applications for the Natural Networks project.
Simone Mansi - Severn Treescapes Trees and Woodland Advisor
Key Responsibilities: Delivers habitat surveys, management advice and assistance with grant applications for the Severn Treescapes project.
Fundraising and Engagement Team
Our fundraising and engagement team is managed by Ally Tideswell and includes all staff involved in Trust fundraising, membership, communications and education.
Ally Tideswell - Head of Engagement and Fundraising
Monkwood by Ben Rees
Key Responsibilities: Leads the activities and the development of the Trust’s fundraising, communications and engagement operations.
Kate Doyle - Senior Membership Officer (job share)
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.
Elise Hill - Senior Membership Officer (job share)
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.
Joanna Kelly - Membership Officer
Key Responsibilities: Promotes and encourages Trust membership and carries out all membership services.
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.
Neil Beasley - Membership Sales Manager (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Chris Morris - Sales Team Leader (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Lynn Mundy - Membership Recruiter (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Gavin McSweeny - Membership Recruiter (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Paddy Smith - 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.
Nia Morris - Membership Recruiter (part-time)
Responsible for recruiting new members of the Trust.
Rebecca Bradshaw-King - Senior Fundraising Officer
Key Responsibilities: Manages the Fundraising Team. This includes developing and delivering fundraising bids, building relationships with funders and prospective funders, and developing fundraising systems and processes to generate income for the Trust’s work.
Caitlin Stuart - Fundraising Officer
Key responsibilities: Generation of income for the Trust’s work by identifying funding opportunities, bid writing, building relationships with corporates, and delivering a range of fundraising schemes and initiatives.
Wendy Carter - Communications Lead
Key Responsibilities: Leads the Trust’s communications work. This includes press and media liaison, publications, website, social media and interpretation.
Vacant - Communications and Digital Officer
Avon vale landscape from Bredon Hill © Wendy Carter
Key responsibilities: Helping to reach wider and more diverse audiences through social media, our website, press and publications.
Nick Packham - Engagement Team Leader
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 from working with schools to community projects in specific areas of Worcestershire.
Marissa Ryland - Senior Wilder Schools Officer
Key responsibilities: Main responsibility is leading on our education work covering the exciting schools program we run at Lower Smite Farm, our outreach work with schools and the support we give to teachers to ensure outdoor learning is embedded into all school work.
Hayley Probert - Wilder Schools Officer
Children on a bridge by Ross Hoddinott/2020VISION
Key responsibilities: Delivering our schools provision at Lower Smite Farm, running various fun and engaging school programmes to school children, ensuring school children have quality exposure to nature at a young age.
Lucy Thirkell - Wilder Learning Development Officer
Key responsibilities: Leading on our schools project aimed at increasing the confidence, skills and capacity for teachers in Worcester to embed more outdoor learning into their teaching.
Joseph Gillard - Saving Worcestershire's Heathlands EngagementOfficer
Key Responsibilities: Joe is responsible for leading practical educational sessions on our heathland nature reserves with the aim of getting more local young people connected to and appreciating heathland habitats.
Beccy Somers - Saving Worcestershire’s Heathlands Engagement Officer
Key responsibilities: Delivery of the Saving Worcestershire’s Heathlands project. Beccy is working with the local community, which surrounds Dropping Well Farm Nature reserve, in Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport to increase understanding of the importance of Heathland habitat and encouraging people to take action for nature in their local area.
Ion Riley - Community Warden Officer
Key Responsibilities - Responsible for face-to-face engagement with visitors on our most popular reserves and also for recruiting and managing a growing team of Engagement Volunteers.
Laura Ealam - Green Farm Engagement Officer
Key responsibilities: Engaging the local community about our work on Monkwood and Green Farm, our recent land purchase, including leading on events and training.
Julie Grainger - Project Manager - Wilder Worcestershire Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature
Key responsibilities: Overseeing our flagship community engagement project focussing on connecting underrepresented communities to nature in Droitwich, Worcester and surrounding areas.
Connor McGoldrick - Project Officer - Wilder Worcestershire Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature
Key responsibilities: Focussing on running sessions, activities and events for various groups in order to reduce barriers for people to engage with nature and to ensure local spaces for nature have local people to care for them.
Anna Josiffe - Project Assistant - Wilder Worcestershire Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature
Key responsibilities: Focussing on supporting events and activities as well as supporting the administrative and reporting side of the project, ensuring we deliver and record our progress as best as we can.
Finance and Operations team
Our Finance and Operations team is headed by Tom Jenkins who oversees our finance, administration and facilities operations.
Head of Finance and Operations - Tom Jenkins
Key Responsibilities: Oversees a wide range of financial and support duties including maintenance issues, recycling, health & safety and first aid.
Moira Conn - Finance and Administration Officer / Meetings and Conference Organiser
Key Responsibilities: Supports the financial functions for WNCT Enterprises Ltd (the Trust's trading subsidiary) in addition to a variety of support duties. Moira also manages the hiring of our meetings and conference rooms at Lower Smite Farm.
Pauline Gardner - Administration Assistant
Key Responsibilities: Carries out a wide range of clerical and support duties at the Trust.
Karen Baxter - Finance and Administration Officer
Key responsibilities: Carries out a wide range of clerical and support duties in her role as Finance and Administration Officer.
