Lance Allan

Town Clerk & Chief Executive

Lance is a keen cyclist. He cycled 800 miles across England in nine days in 2015 to visit all 23 Magna Carta Baron towns, as part of Trowbridge’s Magna carta 800th anniversary celebrations.

As the Chief Executive of the Town Council and its most senior officer, the Town Clerk works closely with the Council Leader, being responsible for strategy and policy, and making recommendations to the Council and the Policy & Resources Committee. The Council’s department heads and service managers report to the Town Clerk. The Town Clerk is also the Proper Officer of the Council, with responsibilities for advising the Council and signing documents on its behalf.

Hayley Bell

Head of Service

Leisure and Facilities

As a mother of two girls, Hayley is constantly busy with attending dance, ballet and swimming lessons! She enjoys going to the gym, cinema, theatre and spending time with her family and friends.

Juliet Weimar 

Head of Service

Resources and Venues

Juliet loves to spend time walking her dog with her family. She enjoys cooking and loves to entertain. Her favourite place to visit is Los Angeles in California, although she loves the South of France too.

Karl Buckingham

Facilities Manager

Karl has many passions including country music and renovating classic VW vans in his workshop. We always enjoy seeing which spare parts come in the post for him – anything from seats to an engine!

Aby Cooper

Customer Services Manager

Aby loves to travel and her favourite country by far is Italy. At home, she enjoys spending time with her family and her little Yorkie, Bertie.

Hannah Lyddy

Museum Manager

History and archaeology have always been passions of Hannah’s and she likes nothing better than exploring a medieval castle or beautiful National Trust property at weekends, or taking long walks in the countryside with Maggie the Labrador.

Aaron Seviour

Active Trowbridge Manager

Aaron’s favourite sport is football and he is also a keen ten-pin bowler. Aaron supports Malaga C.F, although his English club is Grimsby Town. Outside of work, Aaron coaches Welton Rovers U18s.

Varsha Rickitt

Resources Manager

Varsha enjoys visiting National Trust properties and local museums. She also regularly gives up her spare time to act as a volunteer guide at the Lady Hungerford Almshouses in Corsham.

Paul Weimar

Civic Manager

Paul enjoys music production and is a very talented saxophone player. He also enjoys travelling, going out to dinner and entertaining with family and friends.

Becci Knight

Civic Assistant Manager

Becci likes to get creative in the kitchen baking cakes and sweet treats. She also enjoys running and likes to enter races to keep her focused on her fitness – but every now and then she enjoys a cheeky night out with friends

Adam Casserly

Active Trowbridge Coach Development Officer

Adam is an Arsenal fan and plays for Heytesbury FC. He is the Head of Football Development for FC Wiltshire and enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing football and watching films. He also worked for a major tour operator for some years in Turkey, Portugal, Greece, the Canary Islands, and Egypt.

Oli Castleman

Civic Supervisor

Oli enjoys travelling, having spent time working on cruise ships and his favourite country is Peru – where his wife is from! He also likes to cook.

Chloe Holtom

Civic  Supervisor

Chloe enjoys listening to music and seeing her favourite bands in concert. She also loves spending time with her family, and at the weekends you’ll find her socialising with her friends.

Carl Ivin-Maddox

Neighbourhood Services Officer

Carl immerses himself in the world of sci-fi. He attends many conventions around the country, meeting various stars such as Steven Amell, Ron Perlman and Tom Baker.

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Richard Rees

Active Trowbridge Supervisor

Richard’s favourite sports are rugby union and American Football, but he also follows football and supports Swansea City. When he has free time, Richard enjoys relaxing by playing his drum-kit.

Jasmine Todd

Healthier Communities Co-Ordinator

Jasmine enjoys spending time with family and friends, walking her dogs and going to the gym.

Ibrahim Abou El Fadl 

Community Sports Coach

Ibby has 10+ years sports coaching experience and is actively developing Grassroots, Academies and Community Football programmes for a range of age groups and abilities alongside his position with Wiltshire FA – as an Inclusion Advisory Officer. He is also fluent in Dutch and Arabic. Ibby is well travelled having lived in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands and coached abroad in Zambia. He is also working towards his UEFA B coaching licence. Ibby holds a Sports Coaching degree from University of Bath.

Ibby’s community engagements with Bath City FC Community Foundation includes delivering a varitey of projects such as; Walking Football, Disability Football, Girls Football Dev and AfterSchool club activities.

He is also a qualified Boxing Coach and previously set-up and delivered Boxercise sessions.

Ibby was part of UK Sport and University of Bath to run football clinics to enhance coach/player developments in Zambia and to strengthen British-Zambian cultural relations.

He is renowned for his sheer enthusiasm and passion to motivate, adaptability and to develop players to reach their full potential as well as ensuring a safe, inclusive and enjoyable environment for all to participate.

Ibby’s past roles was at Centre Parcs as a Leisure Activities Instructor, Teaching Assistant and Behaviour Support at Primary, Secondary and Special Needs schools.

Matt Abreu

Community Sports Coach

Matt joined Active Trowbridge in 2019 on the back of several years coaching grassroots football and holds a UEFA B Qualification. Matt has experience in youth sports such as cricket and rugby and he joined the team to help children develop in a vast range of sports and to gain a love of sport the same way he did. Interesting fact  . . . Matt is a fully-trained hairdresser!

Andrea Bartlett

Museum Retail & Income Generation Officer

Andrea has a passion and great interest for textiles, clothes, arts and crafts, and enjoys making and creating things. She also loves a good story and enjoys reading especially social history, biographies and fiction.

David Birks

Learning and Outreach Officer

David has a secret life as an artist and a sportsman in Bath. He is also married with two cats and a large collection of shark-themed ephemera.

Sharon Bull

Event Bookings & Administration Officer

Sharon loves finding interesting places to visit both at home and abroad, and is always planning her next holiday! At the weekends, she enjoys exploring beautiful National Trust gardens and properties and going for walks with her family and their rescue greyhound Max.

Beatrice Bush

Museum Apprentice

Beatrice enjoys cycling and making small needle-felted creatures. She loves going on family trips at home and abroad and discovering new museums in different cities.  Her ambition is to visit the Miffy Museum in Utrecht.

Christina Connor

Leisure Services Admin. Officer

Christina is an active volunteer with girl guiding and the National Trust, and in her spare time enjoys baking, knitting and spending time with family and friends.

Kathy Davies

Museum Assistant

Kathy has a particular interest in social history and everything to do with spinning, weaving and dyeing.
She loves spending time with her family, and originally coming from London, she loves being out in the Wiltshire countryside.

Jack Davies

Community Sports Coach

Jack’s interests outside of work include rugby and playing darts for a local pub league. Jack plays rugby currently  for Trowbridge RFC 1st team and has representative honours with Bath Academy and Dorset and Wiltshire.

Ben Deadman

Customer Service Advisor

In Ben’s spare time he likes to play pool in the local pool leagues around Wiltshire and also for the County and is now an organiser of the 6-a-side football leagues around Trowbridge and other towns. Ben also enjoys spending time with his friends and family.

Sally Dicks

Community Play Worker

Sally enjoys spending time with family and friends, going on walks and listening to a wide range of music.

Graham Drewett

Head Grounds Operative

Graham is an avid fan of moto GP and is a big fan of Valentino Rossi.

Joe Farnham

Community Sports Coach

Joe previously worked as a vehicle technician however he wanted to step into the fitness industry and follow a personal passion to a career in fitness. In his spare time, Joe enjoys working out, watching and participating in Boxing and MMA, Socialising with friends, playing darts and travelling / exploring new places.

Linda Goodenough

Finance Officer

Lin loves to travel at home and abroad especially if the sun’s out. She enjoys cooking, walking, swimming and Pilates. Her holiday reading choice has to be ‘chick lit’, and if it makes her laugh – even better!

Laura Grey

Customer Service Advisor

Laura can often be found in the kitchen creating lots of yummy treats and bakes with her son, who is her trusty helper (and harshest critic).  When the wooden spoons are put down, she can be found exploring new places to keep her sous chef occupied and happy!  Fun fact: Laura can list multiple places for a Gruffalo hunt!

Jenna Grieve

Resources Assistant

A Trowbridge girl at heart, Jenna enjoys holidaying in Devon or Cornwall with her family, and her favourite meal is barbecue ribs.

Sean Horobin

Community Sports Coach

Sean’s favourite sports are football, street surfing and cricket. Sean supports Manchester United.

Chloe Johnson

Community Play Worker

Chloe has just completed a degree in Business Management at Bath University. In her spare time, Chloe enjoys dance and regularly performs in productions by TAOS Musical Theatre Group and Trowbridge Players.

Paige Jones

Apprenticeship at Active Trowbridge

Paige joined Active Trowbridge in January 2022 as an Apprentice sports coach. Paige has a background in athletics having competed in 1500m and  cross country. Netball is Paige’s preferred the sport she enjoys taking part in the most and is qualified to lead on. In her spare time Paige enjoys long walks and exploring.

Conor Martin

Apprenticeship at Active Trowbridge

Conor began his apprenticeship at Active Trowbridge in January 2022. Conor is former rugby player for Melksham and he also used to play Football for Bristol Rovers youth team.
Conor’s favourite food is a roast dinner and in his spare time enjoy playing golf.

Matt Morris

Community Sports Coach

Matt in his spare time enjoys sharing a pizza with friends, and would like to learn to fly fish.

Brett Partner

Community Sports Coach

Brett’s hobbies include football, golf and spending time with his family. Brett is married to his beautiful wife, Charlotte and has a Labrador puppy called Harper.

Hannah Randall

Museum Assistant

Hannah is an avid crafter who loves to crochet, sew and enjoys naturally dyeing her own wool. Growing up in Gibraltar has given Hannah a passion for history and she loves to spend free time exploring historic sites and old churches – the older the better!

Nikki Ritson

Learning and Outreach Assistant

Nikki spends her free time indulging her love of animals – she’s cuddled a New Guinea singing dog, hand-fed a cheetah, and tickled a tapir!

Craig Robbins

Community Sports Coach

Craig joined Active Trowbridge in January 2020 as a Community Sports Coach, Craig’s favourite sports are football and rugby, however he is keen to develop his knowledge further in a variety of sports. He has played football for Wiltshire Football Academy since 2017 while earning his level 3 BTEC in sports development. Craig is a Liverpool football fan.

Harry Rutty

Community Sports Coach

Harry in final year of his university course studying for a BSc in Applied Sports Science. Outside of work and study commitments, Harry enjoys going to the gym and playing football, currently playing for Bradford Town.

Georgia Shanahan

Accountancy Officer

Georgia enjoys keeping active and often going swimming, running and dancing. She also loves to perform and has been in several productions from Les Miserables to The Jungle Book.

Victoria Spriggs

Community Events Officer

Vicky enjoys spending time outdoors with her children and two springer spaniels – walking, camping and foraging.  She loves watching rugby and follows both Bath and Frome.  She likes restoring old furniture in her spare time and loves exploring flea markets and car boot sales to find a bargain.

Lin Stevens

Receptionist

Lin is young at heart and enjoys keeping up with her five grand-children aged between 5 and 16. She loves entertaining, and is a “mad keen” gardener, having entered Trowbridge in Bloom competitions in the past.

Harriet Tate

Community Sports Coach

In her spare time, Harriet enjoys dance classes and spending time with family and friends.

Louisa Van Zalinge

Customer Service Advisor

Alison-Nina Ward

Council Secretary/Town Development

Alison-Nina likes nothing more than being in her garden – whether digging, planting or relaxing on her patio, she is at her happiest. Alison-Nina is also a big Corrie fan and tries never to miss an episode.

Trowbridge Ted

Trowbridge Town Council Mascot

Ted loves being out in the community and runs plenty of activities throughout the year. If you see him around town, don’t be shy to ask for a picture!