Kentish Stour Countryside Project

 
  Name: Jon Shelton
Job title: Countryside Manager

Jon Shelton, Countryside Manager
  Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Geography, Dip CMGT, MSc Coastal Zone Management
Background: Originally from Batley in Yorkshire, studied in London before moving to Kent. First job in conservation with BTCV in London. Worked as Countryside Ranger and Community Woodland Officer before joining the KSCP when it first started in 1992.
Interests:
Sports - tennis, squash, football (supports Leeds Utd),; allotment, music, cinema, travel, photography.
 
  Name: Matthew Hayes
Job title: Countryside Officer, Canterbury and Lower Stour

  Qualifications: BSc Rural Resource Management
Background: Originally from Hampshire, moved to Essex to study for a degree at Writtle College. Finished there and began volunteering to gain experience in practical conservation, jumping all over the country from Hampshire to Wales then Cornwall. First paid job in Warwickshire. Moved back to Essex where worked as a country park ranger before arriving at KSCP!
Interests: walking, cycling, canoeing, wildlife watching, music, trips away in the camper van and the occasional pint.
 
  Name: Debbie Adams
Job title: Countryside Officer, Ashford
  Qualifications:BSc (Hons) Landscape Management
Background:Born in Kent. Lived in the Ashford district before moving to Hadlow near Tonbridge to study a University of Greenwich Degree course at Hadlow College. Worked as a British wildlife keeper before becoming a Countryside Ranger at Bewl Water. Then moved on to East Sussex to work part-time on a mixed farm, during which time trained as a Farm Environment Advisor for a farm consultancy company.
Interests:Wildflowers, walking, animals, farming, photography, music and relaxing in a country pub with a roaring log fire.
 
   
  Fred

Born to a happy (though perhaps momentary) relationship between a Pointer & a Pyranean Mountain Dog, somewhere near Teynham, Kent.
Experience: 10 months spent in Larkey Valley Woods near Canterbury.
Special skills: Springs to 6 feet at mention of walk.

Morgan

Experience: From Yorkshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Mull, worked on the boats at Bewl Water, been on the London underground and spent more hours than he cares to remember in tractors.
Interests: Tennis balls, tennis balls, tennis balls.

Stan

A small Jack Russell. The most fearsome of the three dogs!
Experience: Spent a year patrolling a farm yard in Essex before joining the KSCP.
Interests: Rat catching and anything to do with food.

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Kentish Stour Countryside Project
Sidelands Farm, Wye, Ashford, Kent TN25 5DQ
01233 813307
kentishstour@kent.gov.uk