Each Trustee brings a unique set of skills and some serve on additional committees within the Trust including finance, education, house and curatorial, health safety, and environment and development. Staff report to the trustees at the meetings. Geoffrey Dyer is a well-respected private client tax lawyer based in Toronto with over 45 years of extensive domestic and international experience. For much of the past 30 years, he has also undertaken extensive community work.
He led a heritage conservation project for the South Rosedale area of Toronto and over 10 years served on the Board of Toronto Botanical Garden, including almost 6 years as its Chair. In the course of his law practice, he was instrumental in establishing the True Patriot Love Foundation for the support of Canadian Military Families. Geoffrey met Christopher Lloyd and Fergus in the spring of and worked with them and a number of others in establishing the Great Dixter Charitable Trust.
He has been on the Board of the Trust for many years and serves as its Chair. Geoffrey is a recipient of a City of Toronto award for his contribution to parks and public spaces. John has worked as a Chartered Accountant for over 30 years and is based in St Leonards-on-Sea with over 30 years of experience offering a full range of services that are tailored to professional partnerships, businesses, and private individuals, specialising in property vendors and developers, and charitable, not-for-profit and community organisations.
Charles Hind is a Life Trustee and as Chairman of the House Committee has a particular responsibility for the buildings on the Great Dixter estate and their contents. Heinz Curator of Drawings. John is the owner of Ashwood Nurseries in South Staffordshire. He is a Chelsea Gold medallist, plant breeder, plant collector and, above all, a passionate gardener.
Under his guidance, Ashwood has become world-renowned for its specialist crops including hellebores, hepaticas, cyclamen, snowdrops, lewisias, salvias and hydrangeas. Tom is an editor and writer based in Watertown, Massachusetts. He has held senior editorial positions at Boston College Magazine , The Gardener, Country Journal and was the editor of Horticulture magazine for 22 years.
