The Trust – our Trustees
Our Trustees combine a diverse range of professional skills, experience and talent with a hands-on, locally focused approach.
Together they are specialists in heritage restoration, conservation, architectural design and history, business and commercial management, project co-ordination, community engagement, design and finance.
Kevin Moore - Chair
Kevin was Master of the Worshipful Company of Communicators in 2015, and now chairs their Charitable Foundation.
For 7 years he was Chair of East End Homes, Tower Hamlets’ largest registered social Landlord, and he has also chaired the Hackney Society and the Conservation Area Advisory Committee for Central and South Hackney.
From 2006 to 2014 he was the Chief Executive of Walworth Garden Farm; an environmental education charity based in South London, and was Chief Executive of Stepney City Farm from 2015 to 2017.
Andrew Byrne – Vice Chair
Andrew trained as a Quantity Surveyor in the 1980s before moving into project management - mostly involving historic buildings. He was administrator for the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust in the 1990s and has repaired several listed buildings outside the sphere of the Trust.
He has written two books and numerous articles on Georgian architecture and currently combines work as a freelance architectural historian with historic buildings consultancy. Andrew is the founder of LONDON 1840, a not for profit project, that is building a 1:1500 wooden scale model of London as it was in that year.
John Baker – Treasurer
John was the Head of Financial Planning & Reporting for Research and Enterprise at London South Bank University from 2018 to 2025, previously working there as Planning Manager, Strategic Project Manager and as a Faculty Manager.
John has worked in administration in the Arts, as Facilities Manager at Riverside Studios and Building Manager at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. He was also a trustee of the Association of University Adminstrators (AUA), now known as AHEP, an educational charity for the development of professional services staff in Higher Education.
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Justin Webb
Justin Webb is a founder member of the Sheerness Dockyard Preservation Trust.
Educated at Kings College London, he is a resident of neighbouring Naval Terrace and has worked tirelessly for the acquisition and suitable restoration of the Dockyard Church.
In 2010 he compiled the application for SAVE to have the Dockyard Church put on the notable watch list of the World Monuments Fund.
Stuart Taylor
Stuart is a landscape architect at Groundwork London, specialising in community-led design projects and historic landscape restoration. He was formerly a landscape architect at Historic England and a caseworker at the Georgian Group.
Stuart is a member of casework committees for both the Georgian Group and London Parks and Gardens Trusts. He is also a founder member and acting Chair of the Ivy House Community Pub - London's first community owned pub and Asset of Community Value.
Matt Brown
Matt runs a local design & printing business with a wealth of skills and local contacts from which trust has greatly benefited.
He is the Chair of the newly formed Sheerness Town Council which strives to bring improvements into Sheerness.
A graphic designer and print specialist by trade Matt is a keen local historian.
William Palin – Patron
Will is Chief Executive of Barts Heritage. He was formerly Conservation Director director at the Old Royal Naval College and prior to that director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage. He is a trustee of the Georgian Group.
Following the Dockyard Church project completion and opening, Will resigned as Chair in early 2024. He was asked to represent the Trust as a Patron which he agreed and was unanimously ratified by all Trustees.