Trustees
Andrew Fermor – Chairman
Andrew Fermor, Chairman
Andrew retired in May 2010, having practised as a solicitor for 38 years, 34 of them in the Tunbridge Wells area. He and his wife Margo have lived in Rotherfield for more than 30 years. As one of the original trustees of the Millennium Green he has been dedicated from the outset to its development as a valuable amenity for the village. His particular passion is the heritage apple orchard in Upper Wallis Field. Andrew was elected Chairman of the Trustees in 2006.
John Richardson – Secretary 
John Richardson, our Secretary, has lived in the village with his wife, Hilary, for 40 years. They have three children.
John played football and cricket for Rotherfield and was Hon. Secretary for both the football and Sports clubs. He is also presently Secretary for the village Horticultural and Allotments Association.
He taught in London before moving to become Head of English at Beacon in 1970, where he stayed for nearly twenty years. He went on to become Vice-Principal of a large community college in Crediton, Devon, and is now enjoying retirement back in the village.
He produces the twice-yearly “Friends” magazine, “Greenpiece”.
Frank Alexander
Frank Alexander is retired farmer who moved to Rotherfield in 2005 when he sold his farm in Crowborough. He had farmed there for 44 years and also at various times farmed rented land in Rotherfield and Eridge. He also worked in international agricultural project development with various aid agencies over 24 years. The Millennium Green was one of the reasons he moved to Rotherfield and he is keen to help maintain such a valuable community asset.
Peter Davidson-Smith 
Peter has lived in Rotherfield since 1987; three months before the Great Storm. A dedicated supporter of all things rural and village life. A Friend of the Millennium Green since its inception Peter was elected a Trustee in 2008. Frequently seen on the Green through the smoke of a bonfire.
John Dolwin 
John Dolwin, before his retirement, worked locally in Forestry and Arboriculture. He and his wife Jean have lived in Rotherfield since 1967 and this is where they brought up their three children. John served on the Parish Council for 10 years. He also helped with the Rotherfield Scout Group for a number of years, in various capacities. He later served on the Rotherfield Community Tourist Initiative and has been a trustee of the Millennium Green since its inception.
Mike Foley 
Mike Foley is a Devonian. As a lad, he developed an interest in wildlife and in particular birds by roaming the countryside around North Dartmoor and later on, the Exe estuary. More recently, he spent two weeks on an island in the Beagle Channel in the south of Chile working for the environmental organisation Earthwatch – searching for a rare owl that decided not to show itself! Now retired from his work for a pensions company, Mike is married, has been a founder member of the Twinning Association and has lived in the village for 29 years.
Robert Harris 
Robert has lived and farmed in the village all his working life. He has been a Trustee for 5 years and considers his farming background is of value to the management of the Millennium Green. Keen that the village should remain as rural as possible, he feels that the Green is a major asset at the heart of the village community.
Ray Jackson
I was born in Timperley in Cheshire and moved, with my family, to Crowborough in 1969. We moved to Rotherfield in1978 and my first local contact was with the late Sam Pitts at the Copper Kettle who said that if I stayed for twenty years then I might be accepted as a local!! We all did stay and are still here 32 years later. I am married to Brenda and we have three children, and seven grandchildren.
My hobbies are gardening, woodturning and restoring Victorian writing slopes when not caravanning, reading, cooking, looking after my hens and being a member of the local Rotary Club. How I found time to work I’ll never know.
I have been a member of the Crowborough Rotary Club for the last 34 years and prior to that a member of Crowborough Round Table.
Once I retired I wanted to do something which had a local connection hence my involvement with the Rotherfield Millennium Green.
Richard Mann 
Richard has been a trustee of the Green since its inception and was Chairman of the Trustees for 5 years up to 2006.
His particular interest is the natural history aspects of the Green and he led a small group of trustees that developed the Management Plan for the Green during 2006. This provided both a baseline description of the Green and gave a 10 year vision for its management. One key aspect is hedgerow management utilising the techniques of coppicing and layering to maintain the original structure of the fields. He organises the work parties that meet monthly to tackle conservation work on the Green.
Michael White 
Michael has been a Trustee of the Millennium Green from its inception. He has lived in the village of Rotherfield since 1956 when his parents took Milk Lodge Farm. He and his wife Marion ran the village dairy on the outskirts of the village and then on the retirement of his brother, supplied milk to the whole of the village from1965to 1998. Michael also ran a small Plant Hire & Groundworks business alongside the dairy until he retired. Michael’s main passion for the Green is to maintain is as wild and natural as possible.
Treasurer: Kevin Myers (non-Trustee) 
Kevin is a retired Airline Pilot having flown for 34 years. He and his wife, Nelly, have lived in Rotherfield for 20 years. He has been Treasurer of the Trust for 5 years. Although as Treasurer he is not a Trustee, he is very pleased to be part of the management of this important village amenity.