Our Trainers

Specialisms:

Protected species surveys

Habitat surveys

Preliminary Ecological Appraisal

Ecological Impact Assessment

Biodiversity Net Gain: Developments & Habitat Banks

Habitat Regulations Assessments and SSSI Assents

Crispin has spent his entire working life focusing on trees and woodlands, both in the UK and in Africa. Originally a gardener, then a qualified tree surgeon he moved into management and international operational management of large forestry estates in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Now, in the UK as a Chartered Forester and Senior Consultant with Maydencroft he tackles a wide range of woodland related tasks including direct management, management plans, woodland assessments, surveys, cash flows, financial modelling, strategy development and policy reviews.

Previously, working with the UK’s biggest woodland management company and the UK’s foremost woodland investment company he directly managed large woodland portfolios and woodland investment vehicles.

David joined Maydencroft in February 2024 as Head of the Green Skills Training Academy.

He is an experienced teacher, school improvement adviser, leader, and qualified coach. He is passionate about the power of education to transform people’s lives and has successfully led a team of 30 advisers for a large school improvement company.

Following 30 years of experience working in various educational settings and various local and national projects, he is excited to meet the challenge of enhancing his skills and knowledge in the Green Skills Sector. In particular, realising our pledge to:

• Deliver 30 new environmental courses, increasing employability and positively impacting the environment.
• Give back 10,000 green skills to the rural economy, bridging the gap in expertise shortages.
• Create 100 new jobs and allow many more people to establish careers in the green sector.

Specialisms:

Project Management

Biodiversity Net Gain

Habitat Management and Monitoring Plans

Landscape and Management Plans

Invasive Species

GIS

Environmental Permits

Matt graduated with an honours degree in BSc Environment Management from Cranfield University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (MCIEEM).

He started his career working for Hertfordshire County Council delivering land management advice and support to community groups, landowners and other local authorities within the county. Working with enthusiastic people to enhance their local countryside, greenspaces and designated sites has always been particularly rewarding work for Matt.

Since joining Maydencroft at the beginning of 2010, Matt continued to work with community groups, landowners and local authorities but has added utility companies and property developers to his list of regular clients.

“Helping land managers to fulfil the ecological, environmental and aesthetic potential of their landscapes is a particularly enjoyable part of my work”

As Technical Director, Matt manages a team of motivated, professional consultants that deliver a wide range of services for discrete, individual projects or as part of large framework contracts.

Patrick is a third-generation arborist, his family having been in the industry in Hertfordshire for over 150 years. Having set up his own conservation-based arb company back in the 80s when promoting diversity and conservation within arboriculture was a novel approach, he’s now come full circle working for Maydencroft, initially as an arboricultural contracts manager and then from September 2019, as the company's HSEQ and Asset Manager.

As HSEQ Manager, Patrick is passionate about promoting and maintaining a positive health, safety and well-being culture of the entire workforce.

He’s been instrumental in developing the digitisation of many of our systems, builds, maintains and oversees all our app-based software and is keen to ensure everyone works together to achieve the same goals, is always exploring new and innovative ways of allowing us to work smarter, not harder.

“Being empowered to conduct the R&D has allowed us to streamline and become more efficient in the way we approach health and safety which in turn has led to a more robust system and culture.”

Everything health, safety, environmental, asset related and depots are all part of his brief and he works closely with the MD, ensuring we maintain all accreditations needed and continue to meet our own very high standards.

“My main priority is to ensure everyone is kept safe and healthy, myself included. Knowing I have a good overview of the systems, procedures and, most importantly, the people, enables me to be free from worry at the end of the working day and I can sleep soundly.”

Having responsibility for over a 140 people in a fast-growing company that is predominately made up of a skilled, manual labour workforce can be a challenging task, but Patrick’s appetite for the role has allowed our growth to flourish whilst still maintaining an overview and ultimate control of all the processes.