Our Team

Tim Mackrill

Founder

Tim is a nature conservationist who leads the work of the Roy Denns Wildlife Foundation in England. This includes the reintroduction of White-tailed Eagles and Ospreys. Tim managed the Rutland Osprey Project for more than ten years, having first got involved as a volunteer when he was 15 years old. He is pasionate about inspiring and enabling young conservation leaders, and this, coupled with his own early experiences at Rutland Water, that encouraged him to set-up the Osprey Leadership Foundation in 2018. He has a PhD on Osprey migration and is the author of two books The Rutland Water Ospreys and Spotlight Ospreys. Tim has travelled widely in West Africa to study Ospreys.

Becky Park

Programme Manager

Becky is OLF’s only paid member of the team; she works part-time, flexibly and remotely in Rutland. She is a nature conservationist whose strengths lie in community engagement. She has spent the last 15 years working on projects which inspire and empower others to make positive change for wildlife in the UK and has worked with thousands of people from a variety of backgrounds and organisations along the way. Becky lends her expertise to help us build our community of conservation leaders and to help develop and deliver our training programmes. At such a crucial time for nature conservation, Becky believes that it is the way we engage others that is key to changing attitudes towards protecting wildlife and wild places around the world. Whether you’re part of the grass roots movement or involved in top-down decision making you can influence others, but you need to be equipped with the right skills to be successful. Future nature conservationists face huge challenges, and Becky is passionate about ensuring they have the broad range of skills they need to tackle them.

Barry Dore

Programme Faciliator (Volunteer)

Over the past seventeen years Barry has worked with thousands of people, helping them to unlock potential, become authentic leaders and deliver sustainable change. His passions include inspiring and enabling young leaders in their development, building sustainable communities and being a positive force in building a better world through effective collaboration and communication. Barry is convinced that the effective leadership of the next generation of conservationists will determine the world we shape in the future. Leaders who are authentic and inspiring, who create a vision of the future, unlock the potential of others and work in collaboration to achieve that vision. He is delighted to be involved with the Osprey Leadership Foundation as it has the potential to make a deep and meaningful contribution in inspiring and enabling tomorrow’s conservation leaders.

Ian Jelley

Programme Faciliator (Volunteer)

Ian is Director of Landscape Recovery at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. In this role Ian leads a team of amazing people who are delivering pioneering work to support nature’s recovery. Ian and his team work with other people on their land, making more space for nature and enabling people to take action for wildlife. Ian’s leadership journey started nearly 20 years ago when he attended one of Barry’s courses. Since then Ian has been a passionate believer in the power of leadership, practicing and developing the skills to become more personally effective, and working hard to create the conditions for other leaders to emerge. Through absorbing the leadership material Ian has developed a sense of purpose that’s helped guide his decision making, and he now shares his experience and the learning from others to support and develop future leaders inside and outside of work.

Naomi Atkin

Chair of Trustees

Naomi is Chief Executive of Lingen Davies Cancer Fund, a charity that makes a positive difference to lives affected by cancer in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin & Mid Wales.

Megan Allen

Trustee

Megan has more than 10 years media experience, both as a journalist and a PR, working across the tourism sector. She is founder of Rural Roots PR & Journalism, a creative communications agency based in beautiful Rutland.

Dr Will Norton

Trustee

Dr Will Norton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour at the University of Leicester.

Victoria Price

Trustee

Victoria is a conservationist with over 10-years experience of working in wildlife conservation, both in the UK and overseas. During her career she has specialised in international conservation and continues to work in this area as the founder of Vision Wild Ltd.

Liv Elwood

Trustee

Liv is a conservationist and artist based in Dorset, working for Birds of Poole Harbour as their Charity Manager. Public outreach has formed a significant part of her career, and she has also been involved in the delivery of the Poole Harbour Osprey Project.

Laura Shakespeare

Trustee

With a background in Ecology, Laura currently works for an international marine conservation NGO in a development and fundraising role.

Steve Davis

Trustee

Steve is Head of HR & Resources for Dorset Wildlife Trust