Senior Management Team
Kathy Wormald, Chief Executive Officer
Kathy joined Froglife in 2007, after nearly 20 years in the NGO sector. She has a background in accountancy and management and her broad range of experience includes poverty relief, human rights, environment and conservation; Kathy has been a trustee for the Pesticides Action Network Europe, the Women’s Environment Network and the Bhopal Medical Appeal.
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Jenny Tse-Leon, Head of Conservation & Impact
Jenny joined Froglife in 2014 and works as the Head of Conservation & Impact. She is responsible for our reserves, citizen science projects (such as Toads on Roads and Garden Wildlife Health), the work we do to evaluate the impact of our projects and representing Froglife on policy matters at a Westminster level. She also leads Froglife’s Communications. Her expertise is in engaging people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with nature conservation.
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She feels that engaging people from all walks of life, especially those that wouldn’t normally take part, is critical for conservation in the long-term.
Sheila Gundry, Head of Operations
Sheila joined Froglife in September 2017 as Development Manager for Education, Learning and Communications and in 2021 took over as Head of Operations.
Reporting to the CEO she oversees Froglife’s projects and manages the majority of the staff across the organisation.
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She is a qualified secondary school teacher and is particularly interested in active, hands on learning techniques. Outside work she is often to be found exploring wild places and having adventures in the natural world.
Andrew Smart, Head of Science & Research
Andrew joined us in May 2023 after 25 years of working in Higher Education, teaching zoology and conservation. He worked on the conservation of loggerhead and green turtles in the Mediterranean in the 1980s and great crested newts and common toads on the Avon levels in the ‘90s.
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Moving to Cornwall has limited his work on great crested newts, but Andrew has carried on working on palmate newts and freshwater invasive species and has been involved in lizard surveys on the Cornwall Coast Path.
Peterborough Team
Clare Middleton, Reserve Warden & Trainer
Clare joined Froglife in 2022 as the Learning Officer for the Green Pathways Project in Peterborough and was successful in getting the Reserve Warden and Transforming Lives Trainer role from July 2023.
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The best places to find Clare in her spare time are out and about nature spotting, in her garden growing veg or on the riverbank fishing.
Hannah Keeley, Project Manager
Hannah joined Froglife in June 2025 to project manage the delivery of Peterborough’s ‘Green Talent’ project.
She has a background in project management, community engagement, outdoor education, and volunteer management and development. Most recently, she managed Heritage Fund projects at Nene Park, including Moments with Trees and the development phase of Your Community Greenspace.
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Outside of work, Hannah enjoys exploring woodlands with her border collie, growing vegetables, and cooking healthy dishes with home-grown produce. She also loves attending live music events across a variety of genres.
Hannah enjoys meeting new people, experiencing new cultures, and travelling both within and outside the UK.
London Team
Harry Forshaw, Project Manager
Harry joined Froglife in February 2024 to project manage delivery of the London Blue Chain. His previous experience sits within community engagement and youth work, volunteer management, and project management. Most recently, Harry worked for an East London youth service called Spotlight, as their Empowerment Lead, where his role helped to create opportunities for young people and older community members across Tower Hamlets.
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Outside of work, Harry enjoys running, cycling, birdwatching, collecting records and DJing.
Rose Williams, Project Manager
Rose is a Brixton-based nature lover who first started with Froglife as a trainee on the London Blue Chain project. She now manages our Leaping Forward for Dementia project, also in London.
As a regular user of The London Green Chain (a network of footpaths linking green spaces in south east London), creating a wildlife corridor for reptiles and amphibians along the route was a dream come true!
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In her free time Rose can be found either in her garden growing veg, watching cricket, or out photographing birds in London.
Midlands Team
Christina Nijjar, Project Manager
Christina joined Froglife in September 2022 as the Coalface to Wildspace Project Manager. She is excited to be working on a new and innovative project in the Midlands- an area not previously worked in for Froglife!
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Her favourite reptile is the beautiful slow worm.
Elsbeth Leighton, Project Assistant
Elsbeth joined Froglife in November 2022 as the Coalface to Wildspace Project Assistant. She has a degree in Zoology and a Master of Research degree focused on conservation and ecology.
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Elsbeth loves all amphibians and reptiles, but she is especially fond of the charming common frog.
Scotland Team
Louise Smith, Development Officer
Louise joined the Froglife team in January 2017 and manages the Green Pathways project and the Green Pathways for Life Project both based in Glasgow.
After graduating in 2015 with an MSc in Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology she had been volunteering with several different conservation charities near Glasgow to increase her land-based conservation experience.
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Somerset Team
Zak Mather-Gratton, Project Officer
Zak joined Froglife in January 2020 as Project Officer on the Somerset Green Pathways for Life project. He has a BSc in Ecological Science from Edinburgh University, and an MSc in Sustainable Forest and Nature Management from Copenhagen University.
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Yorkshire Team
Darren Starkey, Operations Manager
Darren joined Froglife in February 2021 to manage the Yorkshire Tails Of Amphibian Discovery Project. In 2022 he took on the role of Operations Manager.
Darren previously worked for the RSPB managing two large nature reserves in Yorkshire and before that, he worked for the Environment Agency in several conservation and project management roles. Darren is a graduate of York St John’s University where he gained a BSc Honours in Environmental Science.
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Andy Goff, Development Manager
Andy joined Froglife in 2025 as the Coalface to Wildspace Development Manager in Yorkshire. He has worked across the public, higher education and third sectors in roles that encourage people to become actively involved in their community especially in conservation and environmental projects.
In his spare time Andy can be found exploring the moors with dog Ted and growing fruit and vegetables on his allotment.
Anastasia Hinchcliffe, Trainee
Anastasia joined Froglife in March 2025, as a trainee for our Coalface to Wildspace Yorkshire project. She has always had a passion for conservation and a love of amphibians, finally deciding to pursue this path fully after over a decade in the healthcare sector. She is also currently studying for an MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Leeds.
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In her spare time, she can be found growing fruit and veg, lurking by her garden pond (and those of anyone she knows) and caring for her various pets.
Finance and Office Team
Marie Homewood, Finance Manager
Marie started her working career in the pub trade until she had her children and decided to hang up the party shoes. Not knowing what she really wanted to do she went into the travel industry where she worked within Finance Departments and Aviation Admin.
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Ashlea Mawby, Communications Officer & Toads on Roads Coordinator
Ash was first involved with Froglife back in 2011 as a participant in the ‘Wildlife Ambassadors’ project and had been an enthusiastic volunteer thereafter, being awarded various accolades for her commitment. She joined the Froglife staff team in June 2016 as the Conservation Youth Worker Trainee for the Green Pathways project in Peterborough.
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Froglife Ecological Services
Kathy Wormald, Director
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James McAdie, Head of Operations
James joined Froglife in 2010 to take over the FACT project (formerly Peterborough Environment Enrichment Project) and since moved on to become the River Nene Dragon Finder Project Manager (until the projects’ end in May 2019) and Head of Projects. He now serves as the Froglife Ecological Services’ (FES) Head of Operations.
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Research Students, Interns & Volunteers
Josie McPherson, Intern
Josie is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the E4 Doctoral Training Partnership through the Natural Research Council.
Her research focuses on individual behaviour in frog species, including field trips to study poison frogs in French Guiana and Panama.
As part of her doctoral program, Josie is doing a internship with Froglife where thus far she has analysed amphibians use of under-road tunnels, produced briefings, and verified wildlife observations submitted through the DragonFinder app.
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