Mrs Debbie Dance MSc, MRICS, IHBC, RSA
Debbie Dance has been the Director of Oxford Preservation Trust since 1999, the successful Oxford based charity which owns over 900 acres and listed buildings in and around the City. She has spent her career in the built environment beginning as a commercial property surveyor before gaining an MSc in Historic Conservation (distinction) at Oxford Brookes University and moving on to work for the Birmingham Conservation Trust before returning to Oxford. She has completed a number of award winning conservation projects including the regeneration of Oxford Castle.
Debbie holds a number of national roles, and is currently Chair of the Historic Towns Forum (October 2009), a Trustee of the Churches Conservation Trust and is national conservation judge for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors International RICS Property Awards. She is a past chair of the UK Association of Preservation Trusts, and member of the Heritage Lottery Fund South East.

Ms Lucy Anderson Jones
Lucy Anderson Jones has worked in development in the arts and cultural sectors for more than 20 years. From 2002 she was a freelance consultant. She maintains this strand of work alongside her role at OPT. Previous to 2002, she was Director of King’s Lynn Festival and Arts Centre, General Manager and Interim Director of Riverside Studios.
Until 2010 she was chair of The Wrestling School (producing the work of Howard Barker) and Moving Theatre, Vice-Chair of TaxAid and a Trustee of Kinetika.
She read PPE at Oxford and is a past winner of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers’ Festival.

Mrs Jane Baldwin
Assistant Director

Mrs Eluned Hallas
Administrator

Ms Jacquie Martinez
Planning and Projects Officer

Miss Lauren Schofield

After graduating from Exeter University in Archaeology and Ancient History Lauren spent a year building her experience in the heritage sector, learning on the job about planning, fundraising, and advocacy. She started at the Trust in May 2011 and is responsible for looking after the members, running trips and events and promoting the work of the Trust.