Devon Rural Skills Trust
- Country
- England & Wales
- Charity number
- 1213811
- Status
- Registered
- Registered
- June 25, 2025
- Legal form
- CIO
Address
- Address
- 1a Jesmond Road
Exeter
EX1 2DG
Contact
- Phone
- 07815189911
- [email protected]
- Website
drst.org.uk
Activities
The Devon Rural Skills Trust is a charity dedicated to safeguarding crafts practiced in Rural Devon. Crafts such as Hedgelaying, Drystone walling etc. We do this by offering courses to the public, running a training scheme that allows young people to learn these crafts allowing them to gain employment with these crafts, and by attending public events to educate the public on Devon's Heritage.
Objects: To Promote Preservation Of Rural Crafts And Skills For The Public Benefit Providing And Promoting The Advancement Of Education, Instruction And Training In All Such Rural Skills And Crafts As The Trustees In Their Discretion Consider Worthy Of Protection And Preservation.
Classification
- How
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- What
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
- Who
- Children/young People, Elderly/old People, The General Public/mankind
Areas of operation
- Local Authority
- Devon
Trustees
| Name | Appointed |
|---|---|
| Tim Wills (Chair) | May 5, 2025 |
| Alan Cooper | |
| Christopher Mark Baker | |
| David Stephen Dingle | |
| Davin James Foster | Sept. 30, 2025 |
| Jessica Jordan | Sept. 30, 2025 |
| Joseph Orpen | Sept. 30, 2025 |
| Laura May Tunstall | |
| Mathew Howard Stanley Richards | Sept. 30, 2025 |
| Nick Dawe | |
| Nicholas Andrew Kirkham |