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DCRS Office

Suzy Carr

Suzy is a Director of DCRS and has an crucial role overseeing the day-to-day running of the Centre. All the work Suzy does for DCRS is on a voluntary basis.

Nicky Mullen

Nicky is at DCRS on Mondays and Tuesdays doing all sorts of jobs from project management to booking courses. Her favourite job is eating chocolate.

Chris Wallis

Chris is our 'man to the rescue' is always here to step in and help run events and shows, usually with a bag of yummy donuts in hand. All the work Chris does for the Centre is on a voluntary basis.

DCRS Tutors

Rob Buckley

Rob is the Director of DCRS as well as the Straw Bale Tutor, Welding Tutor and Lime Day Tutor. He's a fountain of knowledge and always in great demand. He's big and green and we wouldn't be here without him.

Emsie Sharp

Emsie runs her glassblowing business, Sharp Glass, from DCRS and idependently runs glassblowing courses. Emsie is very talented and her glassblowing demonstrations are very popular.

Rachel Sargent

Rachel is a local landscape artist and her studio is based at DCRS. She has had many successful joint and solo exhibitions in her 20 years as an established artist. Rachel teaches a landcsape painting course which encourages participents to relax and experiment with their work.

Pete Moors

Pete teaches the Greenwood Furniture course, Hurdle Making and Hedge Laying weekends. Pete is an active member of the Dorset Coppice Group and an expert in his field.

Dave Tomlins

Dave runs our evening blacksmithing courses. Dave trained in classical blacksmithing and runs his own forge part-time from DCRS. If you are local and reqiure any metal work please contact us and we will pass your details on to Dave.

Alex Pole

Alex is our one day Blacksmithing Tutor and runs his own forge at Cricket St Thomas.

Simon Case

Simon runs independent pottery classes from the studio at DCRS.

Ed Closier

Ed is a Stone Mason with over 25 years experience teaching and working. At DCRS he teaches Ltter Carving in Stone (raised letters) as well as Stone Carving.

Anna Lewington

Anna founded Rushworks, a project that harvests and uses rush from the River Stour as it traditionally would have been. Anna works part time from DCRS and teaches our Rush Basket Making course.

Erica Hemming

Erica restores chair seating, both in cane and rush, and teached rush seating restoration at DCRS.

Aranya

Gary Finch

Both Aranya and Gary teach our Introduction to Permacultuyre Design weekends. Aranya is a founding member of Designed Visions which organises and teached Permaculture throughout the South West.

DCRS Office Dogs

If you come into the DCRS Office you will be greated by many lurchers. They are all very friendly, but if you're not too keen on dogs we have stable door so you don't get overwhelmed!

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