LANDMARK TRUST - Key Persons
Bruce is responsible for all of Landmark's fundraising, leading a team of six that raises vital support for our work and looks after the incredible supporters which make this possible. He directs the strategy for capital appeals to support each building rescue, and manages relationships with some of our most generous individuals, trusts & foundations, companies, and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Much of Bruce's career has been in fundraising, including past roles with Landmark, at the NSPCC, and both of Oxford's universities.
Unusually for such a small team, Landmark has employed its own in-house Historian since its foundation in 1965. Caroline has been Landmark's Historian since 2000. Documentary research into Landmark's buildings lies at the heart of the Historian's contribution to all aspects of Landmark's work, feeding into the understanding of its buildings and how to restore them. Caroline writes, speaks and lectures extensively about Landmark's buildings to a wide range of audiences, and oversees Landmark's outreach programmes and archives. She writes the Landmark History Albums and gathers the books for ‘library' that is such a well-loved feature of every Landmark.
Caroline read Modern History from Jesus College, Oxford, before spending ten years in international marketing for blue chip companies, during which she took a part-time MA in Early Modern History at Birkbeck. A further decade was spent living in Barcelona and Connecticut and bringing up her three children. Buying a 15th-century church house in a Berkshire village prompted an interest in historic buildings and led to an MSc in Historic Conservation at Oxford Brookes. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she has served on the committee of the Society of Architectural Historians. In 2018, she began studying for a part-time DPhil in Architectural History at Oxford University, on Fired Artificial Stone 1650-1850, which is still ongoing.
Caroline loves art, music and theatre, and values them as much as historic architecture as sources to inform our understanding of the past and present. With Anna, she co-authored Landmark: A History of Britain in 50 Buildings, and in 2004 edited Dearest Augustus & I: the Journal of Jane Pugin. She has published numerous academic and articles on Landmark's buildings and is a regular specialist contributor on television and radio. Caroline has as many research interests as there are Landmarks. Some particular specialisms are Coade stone (Belmont), A W Pugin (The Grange), James Boswell (Auchinleck House), Llwyn Celyn and the Llanthony Valley - and the histories of pineapples (The Pineapple) and rabbits (The Warren House)!
Derek joined the Landmark Trust in 2004, originally taking up the post on Lundy as Island Manager and Lundy General Manager in 2005. A Marine Electrician by trade, Derek has previously worked for B.A.E. systems in Scotland and Devon where he visited Lundy for the first time in 1984. Prior to joining Landmark, Derek spent 19 years as the South West Regional Service Manager for Hotpoint Domestic Appliances.
Derek manages The Lundy Co Ltd, the Landmark owned company which manages Lundy, its supply and passenger vessel, M.S. Oldenburg and the Islands winter Helicopter Service. Derek has a keen passion for Scuba Diving and is married with two children, splitting his time between Lundy and Appledore on the mainland.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Trustee of the Royal Collection Trust
- Writer, Historian
Anna Keay is a writer, historian and curator, with a special interest in 17th-century British history. Anna became Director of Landmark in July 2012, following two years as a Trustee.
Born in the West Highlands of Scotland, Anna was educated at Oban High School in Argyll and Bedales in Hampshire and read history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where she won two academic scholarships. Her PhD on court ceremonial in the reign of Charles II was supervised by Professor John Miller at the University of London.
From 1996 to 2002 Anna worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces. From 2002 until 2012 she was Properties Presentation Director at English Heritage.
Anna has published several books, including The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown; The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power and The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth. Anna co-wrote Landmark: A History of Britain in 50 Buildings with Landmark's Historian Caroline Stanford, and has presented several TV documentaries - notably the six-part Channel 4 series about the Landmark Trust Restoring Britain's Landmarks that aired in autumn 2015. In November 2017 she presented Channel 4's Big Ben: Saving the World's Most Famous Clock, exploring the history and restoration behind Big Ben. In 2019, she presented a two-part documentary on Landmark's restoration of Llwyn Celyn, the £4 million Restoration: Historic House Rescue. As a follow-up in 2021, she presented a programme about the rescue of Cobham Dairy entitled £1 Million Restoration: Historic House Rescue.
Anna is a Trustee of the Royal Collection Trust, a Governor of Bedales School, a Non-Executive Director of Big Yellow Group PLC and an Ambassador of the Weald & Downland Living Museum. She is also a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by the University of East Anglia.
Anna's parents are the writers John Keay and Julia Keay. She is married to Simon Thurley and they have two children, the family dividing their time between London and King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Job Titles:
- Head of Corporate Services
Our Head of Corporate Services, Jen has worked at Landmark since 2017 and manages a team of six. A chartered certified accountant, Jen previously worked in the commercial sector and holds a degree in Law from Kings University London and a Masters in Voluntary Sector Management from Cass Business School. She has also been honorary treasurer at Anti-Slavery International since 2017.
Job Titles:
- Head of Land and Property )
Job Titles:
- Head of Historic Estates
- Head of the Historic Estate
Susan is Head of the Historic Estate responsible for managing the reactive and planned maintenance repair works to the existing portfolio of Landmarks throughout the UK and in Italy, as well as overseeing the project management of refurbishing new Landmark properties.
Along with a team of regional surveyors and a central admin support team, Susan also manages a small in-house crafts team who support essential planned maintenance repair work to the surveyors and the regional property managers.
Prior to working for the Trust, Susan worked for Martin Ashley Architects, a small architectural practice specialising in conservation and for Historic Royal Palaces as a conservation surveyor based at Hampton Court Palace. Susan is a Chartered Building Surveyor and a SPAB Scholar.
Job Titles:
- Head of Visitor Experience
Vanessa is Head of Visitor Experience, spanning Landmark's marketing, communications, engagement and visitor services. Vanessa studied history at university and has a passion for sharing heritage with as many people in society as possible. Growing up in Nottingham, she cultivated her love of historic buildings through trips to Wollaton Hall, Hardwick Hall and Nottingham Castle.