Trustees and Staff
Trustees Mission
The management and care of the buildings and the collections is carried out by the Wye Rural Museum Trust and a team of dedicated volunteers.
The mission of Brook Rural Museum is to preserve, interpret and improve access to the museum site; to collect, preserve, interpret and exhibit the agricultural and rural history of Brook and East Kent; and to ensure the widest possible public access to the site and its heritage assets.
The Trust
The Wye Rural Museum Trust (reg. charity number: 1055879) was formed in 1996 to take over the ownership of the Museum buildings and collections from Wye College (University of London).
With the help of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and a number of corporate and private donations the Trust was able to buy the site and buildings from Wye College, which then gifted the collections to the Trust, which took formal control in May 1997.
Contact with the Trust can be made by email.
Members of the Trust
Tim Betts
Co-opted Trustee
John Bulaitis
Co-opted Trustee
Jeremy Clarke
Co-opted Trustee
Francis Huntington
Co-opted Trustee
Sir George Jessel DL
Nominated by Canterbury Farmers Club
Caroline Knight
Co-opted Trustee
Julie Martin
Co-opted Trustee
Sir John Mummery DL
Co-opted Trustee
John Nightingale
Chairman
Sheila Sweetinburgh
Nominated by Canterbury Farmers Club
John Tomkins
Co-opted Trustee
Paul Webster
Co-opted Trustee
Mike West
Co-opted Trustee
Officers and Advisers of the Trust
Cllr Simon Betty
Ashford Borough Council Liasion
Rebecca Nash
Mentor
Mike Mooney
Co-Treasurer
Andrew Scarfe
Treasurer
Staff Members
Fran Penberthy
Administrator & Community Liaison Officer
Tom Kennett
Collections Officer
Address
Brook Rural Museum, The Street, Brook, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5PF
