Trustees

George has been a passionate supporter of Avalon Camps since 1989. He spent most of his working life in the Construction Industry. For a number of years he worked for J C Bamford Excavators Ltd. In 1982 he became part owner and joint Managing Director of Holt JCB Ltd before retiring in 1998.

In 2017 he was instrumental in Avalon Camps becoming a charity. George has used his commercial expertise to ensure Avalon Camps will continue on a sound financial footing for many years.

Susan has been involved with Avalon Camps for many years. She organises camp volunteers, ensuring Health & Safety compliance and helping with day to day activities. Susan has an honours degree in Social Administration from Loughborough University. For many years she worked as​

Training Officer for Somerset Social Services before running her own business in Safe Manual Handling & Ergonomics

Avalon’s camp manager for many years, Nigel runs the camp for a week each year whilst his wife Lois acts as catering manager for the camp. For the other 51 weeks of the year Nigel runs his own car retail outlet.

Tim is a former Avalon Camps – Young Leader and was educated at Kings of Wessex Academy Cheddar. He graduated with a BSc in Paramedic Science from the University of the West of England. Tim is as a frontline Paramedic for the NHS in central Bristol. He has frequently undertaken additional learning around medicine. Using this additional training he aims to pursue a role as an advanced Paramedic. He is passionate about helping people with a particular interest in improving mental health for young people, especially young men. He feels very strongly about suicide prevention and aim to help reduce suicide rates wherever possible.