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)
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.
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.
Steve Davis
Trustee
Steve is Head of HR & Resources for Dorset Wildlife Trust
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.