Leadership team

Eliot Lyne, Chief Executive Officer

Eliot Lyne joined NWT as CEO in 2021. Before this, he pursued a 15-year career in senior finance and operations roles in many well-known UK Charities such as Scope, Amnesty International UK, Greenpeace UK, Livability and National Children’s Bureau. This culminated in a turnaround role as interim Finance Director and then interim CEO at RNIB.  

Eliot is a qualified Chartered Accountant and started his career at Deloitte and Touche, followed by a few years in the commercial sector. Much of Eliot’s work has been improving the financial and strategic sustainability of organisations, both from the perspective of the resources that they have but also how they choose to use them to further their charitable impact. He is passionate about the power of integrity in leadership to make change happen. Eliot is currently a Stakeholder Non-Executive Director at Water Resources East, and has previously had various charity Trustee roles as well as being a member of the national BBC Appeals Advisory Committee.

Eliot holds a BA in Geography and an MSc in Environmental and Energy Studies. He is married with one daughter. He runs, cycles, gardens, sings and enjoys time in nature in his spare time. 

Natalie Bailey, Director of Engagement 

Natalie joined NWT in 2022 after nearly twenty years working in public engagement roles across the public and private sector including 12 years at the University of East Anglia, a few years producing Norwich Science Festival and a stint working on a global conference in Sydney, Australia. She is passionate about the mutually beneficial relationship between people and the natural world and the importance of nature connection for our mental health. In her spare time she can be found pottering on her allotment, swimming in the Bure and drinking copious amounts of tea!  

Kevin Hart, Director of Nature Conservation 

Kevin’s professional career in conservation and land management has been focused in Norfolk since the late 1990’s. He joined NWT in 2011 as the Broads Area Manager before becoming Head of Nature Reserves in 2012, and then Director of Nature Conservation in 2019. He has worked for much of his career in the charity sector in the county which has been home to his family for more than 5 generations.

He currently has responsibility for nine patch based teams managing over 5,000 hectares of the rarest and most special habitats to be found in the county. Kevin is totally committed to preserving and enhancing the incredible wildlife of Norfolk, he is a Trustee of Kelling Heath on the North Norfolk coast and is a mentor and guide to other land management professionals.

As well as over 30 years of professional experience, Kevin holds a BA in Countryside Management and a Post Graduate Diploma in Ecology and Land Management. He is married with a son and a daughter and when not at work will be found on a tennis court or up a mountain!

Rachel Savage, Director of Development and Partnerships 

Rachel Savage has over 25 years’ experience in the charity sector. She has considerable experience of delivering large scale fundraising and marketing campaigns, strategic and financial planning, brand and audience development, and supporting organisational change. Prior to joining Norfolk Wildlife Trust, she worked as Director of Client Development for a full-service marketing agency supporting a number of charities both large and small. She has also held senior management, marketing and fundraising positions at the RHS, Save the Children and Voluntary Service Overseas. Her role at NWT includes leading the fundraising and membership teams along with our five Visitor Centres and Norfolk Wildlife Services, our ecological consultancy. 

A passionate gardener, she is a trustee of The Gardens Trust, spends a great deal of her spare time in her veg patch and has recently completed her PhD in nineteenth century garden history.

Helen Hebditch, Director of Nature Recovery

Helen joined NWT in 2025 as Director of Nature Recovery. Over a 20 year career as a conservation biologist and science communicator she has worked internationally for organisations like WWF-Australia, Fauna and Flora, Marine Stewardship Council, WWF International and the Chagos Conservation Trust. From managing threatened species project, to campaigning against international wildlife trade and developing large scale rewilding programmes, Helen’s experience has been diverse.

But her drive to make a difference in the UK resulted in her joining the wildlife trust family, firstly with Kent Wildlife Trust where she led the development of the Wilder Blean Initiative, and now leading the nature recovery team at NWT.

Although she has a BSc in Conservation and Animal Biology, Helen spent many years as a veterinary nurse in Australia where she worked with wildlife, from crocodiles to wallabies, but art is her other love and she’s a printer maker and co-creator of a biennial art festival.

Clare Sisson, Director of Finance and Support Services

Clare qualified as an auditor at KPMG before moving into industry working for engineering companies and charities. Her thirty-year experience across a broad range of finance roles and organisational sizes has given her a pragmatic, hands-on approach.

Since moving to Norfolk a decade ago, Clare has taken up rugby playing for Wymondham rugby club where she is also a Trustee. She also enjoys yoga, swimming and other water-based activities.