Trustees and Staff

Peter has been on the Board of Trustees since 2011.

Peter is a former Headmaster of an Anglican school, with multiple years’ experience of Christian ministry with young people.

He was a lay member of the C of E’s General Synod, its Board of Education, and Vice Chairman of Scripture Union.

Peter serves as a Licensed Lay Minister at St Luke’s, Bath, He enjoys presenting ‘Open the Book Bible storytelling assemblies’ in local schools. He is also is on Bible Society’s OTB Advisory Group.

He and Angela have three adult children and six grand-children. They enjoy travelling, music, swimming, rugby and the occasional pub lunch. To his wife’s despair, their 200-year-old cottage is over-crammed with books.

Colin was appointed as Trustee in 2023.

Colin is a Chartered Surveyor who spent his executive career (until 2000 ) with some of the largest of the UK’s property investment and development organisations.  Since then he has been a professional Non Executive Director or Trustee with a wide variety of Organisations- often being appointed initially for his property experience and expertise.

A committed Christian, he has served in his local large evangelical church in most roles -including three stints as a Church Warden.

Colin is married, with 2 children (and 3 grand children), he enjoys his friends, travelling, reading, golf – and remembering some great times scuba diving around the world.

Mariama has been on the Board of Trustees since 2018.

Mariama is Head of Outreach Solutions at the University of Oxford. Her professional background is in secondary education as teacher of Spanish and head of careers across several schools in the South East. She has been involved in activism and community work from a young age.

Her work in the community has involved volunteering as a Lay Chaplain at the Westminster Hospital. More recently, Mariama worked on the go Lottery funded ‘Women off to Work’ (WoW) project at the Abbey Community Centre, Warminster, which supported and enabled disadvantaged local women to gain employment and/or become entrepreneurs. She currently sits on the Editorial Board of the ‘magnet’, an ecumenical Christian magazine published by Hymns Ancient and Modern.

Mariama is married to Oliver, an ordained priest in the Church of England. She enjoys walking, cooking and reading.

Tim has been involved in children’s, youth and young adults’ ministry for 20 years, with a particular focus on evangelism. He is passionate about creating attractive environments for people to explore the Gospel. He currently oversees CPAS Venture and Falcon holidays, and the preaching team at his local church in Leamington Spa. He’s a Bath rugby fan, member of the local mountain bike club and often daydreaming about his next bike-packing adventure! He’s married to Kerstin and has two daughters.

Rev. Roger Driver is currently Rector of St Michaels Without, a church in the centre of Bath.  He has been an ordained cleric in the Church of England for 31 years, and before moving to the city 5 years ago he served in several Parishes in inner city Liverpool.  An avid lover of sport he follows rugby and football, but is also a qualified cricket umpire standing in the West of England Premier League and for the MCC!

Erica has worked for The Willats Trust since 2001.

She is the Property Manager for our properties in Bath.

Erica previously worked as a ParaLegal for law firms. She then moved into the administrative role at the charity and now manages the The Willats Trust’s estate in Bath.

She has two school age children, a horse and a black Labrador, Bramble, who you may see if you visit the office.

Contact Erica about Properties

Méri has worked for The Willats Trust since September 2020 as our Grants & Office Administrator.

Contact Meri about Grants

Accountant