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OUR TEAM
Dana Assinder, People Officer
Nick Gray, Land Officer
Katie Read, Land Officer
Anna Wiscombe, Administrator
Millie Forrest, Project Manager
Sam Rose, Director
OUR TRUSTEES
Luke Montagu, Founding Trustee and Chair
An entrepreneur who now spends most of his time managing his family’s estate at Mapperton in West Dorset, Luke founded a series of technology, education and media businesses after graduating from Columbia University. In 2003 he co-founded the Met Film School, which he led as CEO until 2009. Luke is the founding member of Secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence as well as a committee member of the NICE guideline on Safe Prescribing and Withdrawal Management.
Philip Colfox, Founding Trustee
Symondsbury Estate, of which Philip is the owner, has been on a journey over the last 40 years how to migrate from a traditional farming business to a highly diversified lifestyle brand trying to share with everyone the good life, good health, good ambiance and being kind. Currently converting to regenerative farming with ambitions to “wind the clock right back” on food production, while making farming enjoyable and profitable and trying to develop a new tourism landscape for the 21st and 22nd centuries full of bugs, bees, butterflies, beasts, bushes, bogs and blooms.
Dr Tarsha Finney, Trustee
Growing up on Wombramurra, her family’s 35,000 acre cattle property, was an early innovator in Australian regenerative farming practices. Tarsha is a trained architect and urban designer, with an expertise in city building via large scale housing projects. She was Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art where she also led the MA City Design undertaking research work in Sydney, Hong Kong and London into new models of intergenerational housing. Over 25 years of teaching, research and practice her work has been driven by questions of shared resources, collective agency, and social and ecological solidarity in the face of climate change and biodiversity collapse.
We have two further Trustees who have recently joined our team.
OPPORTUNITIES
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