Meet the MAYFACS Trustees
MAYFACS is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) so it has a number of trustees and one project manager. See who's who below.
Update following our AGM (October 2025)
We are very excited to welcome three new Trustees to the MAYFACS team! Matt, Gill and Elizabeth have been appointed within our board at our recent AGM and we look forward to their incredible valuable input and expertise to further develop our charity into the future.
We also have a new Chair of Trustees with Cathy taking over from Lucy. We would also like to say a HUGE thank you to retiring Trustees Caroline and Richard, who have both served as Trustees for MAYFACS for 9 years since the formation of our charity. Lucy has also led our Trustee Board since we formed, but remains a Trustee. We are so grateful for all their hard work and support over the many years.
Cathy Kerr
Trustee & Chair
Cathy and her husband moved to Mayfield from St Albans in 2022 to live closer to their daughter. A relative newcomer to Mayfield, she is enjoying getting to know the area and getting involved.
Cathy brings to her role as MAYFACS trustee extensive experience from her career in health and social care. She is a qualified social worker who has worked in a range of senior roles including 8 years as Director of Adult Social Services in London. She is now retired, but still involved in social care, and chairs the national network of former Directors of Social Services
Lucy Firrell
Trustee
Lucy has lived in Mayfield for over 30 years. Her children attended Mayfield Primary School and Heathfield Community College and she was a governor at both schools. She is a great supporter of the aims of MAYFACS in helping to bring together the many valuable and diverse services and activities in the village, as well as generating new ones.
Tessa Gregory
Trustee
Tessa has lived in Five Ashes since 2001. Once her children started the village pre-school she became involved in the management committee, going on to be Chair. Whilst her children were at the village primary school she became chair of the ‘Friends of Five Ashes School’ (equivalent to a PTA). She became a Parent Governor for the school shortly after, followed by a Community Governor for the Aspire Federation (Five Ashes and Mayfield CE Primary Schools). Tessa relinquished her Governor role but continues to work part time as School Secretary at Five Ashes CE Primary School. She is also a trustee of the Nicholson Trust. Tessa is very enthusiastic about the potential of the MAYFACS initiative, seeing it as an opportunity to harmonise and further develop the activities within the parish of Mayfield and Five Ashes.
Gill Weavers
Trustee
Gill moved to Mayfield with her husband Rob in 2009 and has been very involved in local life serving on the Parish Council for 10 years including as Chairman and starting the initiative for the new Community Hall and Medical Centre which she sees forming a permanent home for MAYFACS once it is built.
Previously she ran her own business in London for over 25 years and aJer moving to East Sussex joined a local estate agent for 8 years retiring from this fairly recently.
In the voluntary sector she has served as a Trustee of a Charitable Trust, been Mayoress of Bromley (meeting over 700 different organisations) and actively fundraised and supported charities such as MENCAP and Help for Heroes. Mayfield is a wonderful village and she is delighted to have been nominated to serve as a Trustee for MAYFACS greatly admiring the work that they do in the community and looking forward to supporting them into their 10th year and beyond
Charles Marshall
Trustee & Treasurer
Charles moved to Mayfield in September 1990, from which time he has been involved in a wide range of community activities and charities. He is a member of most parish church financial and investment committees, is a trustee of the Nicholson Trust and was the founder chairman of the Friends of St Dunstan’s of which he is still treasurer. He was a founder trustee in 1995 of
Mayfield Age Concern ("MAC") and participated actively in the founding of MAYFACS as its successor organisation. He is a trustee of Mayfield Tennis Club, The Wateryard Group and the Argos Hill Windmill Trust and is or has been the financial examiner of many of the voluntary organisations and charities in Mayfield over the last 20 years.
Miles Smith
Trustee
Miles and his family have lived in Mayfield for 33 years. His three children attended the primary school and Miles was at various times treasure of the PTA and vice-chairman of the Governors. He has experience of volunteering in the youth and advice sectors and was, for several years, a member and vice chairman of the Independent Monitoring Board at H M Prison Lewes. He is currently a trustee of the Friends of St. Dunstan's, the Friends of Mayfield Churchyard, of which he is Chairman, and is a trustee and director of the University of Brighton Academies Trust. He believes that our communities will face many challenges over the next few years and that MAYFACS will have an increasing role to play.
Elizabeth Palmer
Trustee
Elizabeth and her husband and daughter moved to Mayfield in 2023. She is enjoying getting involved in Mayfield life, joining the band, the WI , the Bonfire Society and the Horticulture Society. Elizabeth has 24 years experience working in the charity sector at a senior level and has served as a trustee of several charities. Impressed with the scope of work undertaken by Mayfacs and the wonderful staff and volunteers, she is looking forwards to her term as Trustee.
Brian Cook
Trustee
Brian and his wife Moira moved to Mayfield in 2015 having lived in the Tunbridge Wells area for 35 years. He is a retired international investment banker having worked in addition to London in a number of overseas locations including New York, Toronto, Frankfurt, Dubai and Hong Kong.
His interests include Opera, Gardening, Golf and Bowls. He is currently a member of the Mayfield Golfing Society and Chairman and Treasurer of Frants Bowls Club.
Having been in Mayfield for 7 years he has seen as first hand “the excellent work” that MAYFACS undertakes and welcomed the opportunity to become actively involved as a Trustee. He looks forward to helping MAYFACS broaden its activities and bringing them to the wider community.
Matt Green
Trustee
Matt has lived in Mayfield since November 2020 but has been connected to the village for much longer, marrying Sarah in St Dunstans church in 2004. They have three children between 10 and 19 years of age. Matt is the CEO of technology business serving the conveyancing industry called TM Group and has previously worked for Arthur Andersen (where he qualified as a chartered accountant in 2000) and CoStar Group. He and his family are members of the Mayfield Tennis Club and he coaches youth rugby at Tunbridge Wells RFC. He and his wife Sarah hosted two Ukrainians for 18 months which is how he became familiar with the “incredible support” MAYFACS provides to those in the community.