Judith Cooke Vice Chair Expand Professional background: Civil servant, mainly criminal justice, negotiator and market researcher in private and public sectors, project manager for range of change projects including improving budget management and delivering diversity. Local background: living in Lake District for last 15 years, working in health and criminal justice, parish councillor and member of Lake District National Park Authority for 8 years (chaired planning committee for 4 years). Interests include walking, boating, swimming as well as involvement with local groups. Trustee of Wordsworth Trust and member of heritage and garden societies.
Martin Brimmer Trustee Expand Professional background: academic, senior civil servant – Cabinet Office and Department of Education, ministerial support labour and employment, industrial relations and pay policy. Additional skills: Charity law, governance and Trustee responsibilities.
Philip Cropper Trustee Expand Professional background: Retired stockbroker/ investment fund manager and previously fellow of the Institute of Securities.Additional skills: Fundraising for a number of charities often through film making and current chairman of Art Fund Cumbria.
Sarah Hodgson Trustee Expand Professional background: Founder of a Windermere based international tour operator specialising in guided mountain adventure holidays. BSc Hons Geography, University of London. MTUK Mountain Leader. Professional specialisms in marketing, branding and social media. Local background: Living in Ambleside, with my husband who is an author of Cicerone Lake District guidebooks, a child who goes to school locally, and Maximus my Bernese Mountain Dog. Interests: Fell walking, mountaineering, ice climbing, adventure travel, trail and fell running.
Catherine Grezo Trustee Expand Professional background – landscape architect in the public sector for 30 years. Responsible for landscape, ecology and tree officer teams. Project management of landscape projects, advising planning authorities on landscape matters including protected landscapes. Advised a number of environmental charities on landscape issues. Special interest in historic parklands, worked with English Heritage on reassessing all listed parklands within the county. Born and brought up in west Cumbria, Catherine moved back to Cumbria in 2011 and now lives in a village near Cockermouth. Interests include historic parks and gardens, natural history, walking, volunteering, art. She works part time at a museum and art gallery.
Antony Leeming Trustee Expand Professional history: Plant scientist, farmer, builder, landowner Voluntary sector: Former Chairman Planning and Policy, Lake District National Park Authority Former Chairman North West Region, National Trust Interests: Landscape architecture, ornamental forestry, upland ecology, rural and manual skills
Dave Felton Trustee Expand Professional background: Music, book and digital publishing; most recently founder of Inspired by Lakeland, a Cumbrian publisher specialising in books and gifts relating to wild places. Local background: Live near Keswick. Volunteer for Princes Trust and The Lake District Folk Weekend. Interests: Wild places, traditional music, pizza, walking.
Lucy Hetherington Trustee Expand Professional background: television producer & executive, commissioning and delivering numerous documentary and current affairs programmes, mainly for BBC and often international partners. Family roots in Cumbria; life-long connection to Crook and Staveley area. Interests include fell-walking, swimming, and exploring the artistic and cultural heritage of the Lake District.
Tiffany Hunt Trustee Expand Professional background: National Trust staff member for 28 years and was successively Regional Director for Northumbria, Yorkshire and the North West. Currently Chair of the National Lottery Heritage Fund Committee for the North. Awarded an MBE for services to the NW’s heritage in 2015. Now a Cartmel resident, my love of the Lake District derives from long standing family connections with Cumbria and walking, swimming and skating there since childhood. Other interests include gardening, natural history, music, books and volunteering with various organisations in Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Michael Day Trustee Expand Professional Background: Emeritus professor and former Director of the School of Education, Roehampton University. Previously senior civil servant in Department for Education. Trustee of the National Foundation for Educational Research and Board member of the US based Center for International Educational Benchmarking.A Windermere resident, and family connections with Cumbria for many years. Supporter of Lake District Summer Music, Hafner Orchestra, Lakeland Arts, Royal Windermere Yacht ClubInterests: Walking, rock climbing, sailing, music, architecture and planning, DIY, education, cultural history