Barry Cullimore - Centre Manager
Barry has worked at Leeson House since 1995. He is a keen runner and climber who really loves living and working in Purbeck. A qualified Primary School teacher with a degree in Geology and Geography, Barry specialises in teaching the A Level courses but also lends his hand with all the other courses that Leeson House runs.
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Mike Gould - Senior Tutor
Mike has been at Leeson House since 2007 after three years of teaching in a Dorset school. He has an Environmental degree, a particular interest in birds and is a qualified bird ringer with the British Trust for Ornithology. He teaches all ages and focusses on A Level Biology.
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Ben Keen - Tutor
Ben joined our teaching team in 2011. He has previously worked as a Primary school teacher and a Field Studies Tutor with the FSC. He was enticed to the area from Watford by his love of the sea and when not working he can be found kite surfing, wake boarding and scuba diving! Ben is one of the Geography tutors.
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Mark James - Trainee Tutor
Mark joined the teaching team at Leeson House in 2007. Previously Mark had worked as an Education Ranger for The National Forest in the Midlands. Focussing on getting young people enthused about the natural world Mark can think of no better place than Purbeck in which to do this. Outside of his teaching work at Leeson House Mark is one of the country's leading circus performers and has peformed around the country with his own show. Mark can often be seen practising in the games room at Leeson House.
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Alison Jay - Trainee Tutor
Alison had never been to Purbeck before she joined our team in 2007, but now she think's she'll probably never leave. Ali has a degree in Ecology and loves living by the sea, walking in Purbeck and eating cake. When she's not teaching she helps to look after the grounds and fights with the slugs for control of the vegetable patch.
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Leight Van De Zande - Site Manager
Leigh has worked at Leeson House for 10 years. He turns his hand to repairing everything that breaks or goes wrong in the Centre and is always ready with a joke for the children staying. He is often seen out and about on his Harley Davidson motorbike.
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Jan Lawlor - Office and Domestic Manager
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Judy Bugler - Housekeeper in Charge
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Tim Saunders - Cook in Charge
Tim is our longest serving member of staff with 30+years of cooking under his belt. Tim has lived and worked in Swanage all his life and spends his free time doing DIY and taking his young sons to football matches.
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Ruth Foster - Administrative Assistant
Ruth has worked at Leeson for almost 5 years. Moving from working in early years education.
Ruth loves living by the coast and taking as much advantage of it as possible.
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