What’s your favourite time of the year?
Crisp winter mornings, where you come down on to the site and the North Atlantic stretches out from the bridge like a sheet of glass. There is a nice fresh air and no wind (sometimes). It’s still busy but it is quieter than what we are used to in the summer. You can just enjoy the nature around you, away from the hustle and bustle.
What does the National Trust mean to you?
Conservation - conserving what we have for future generations. It’s bigger than you and I. It’s about the kids… our children, and then their children. It’s about making sure we look after what we have for the future.
What do you love about your role?
The visitors that come from 160 different countries welcoming them and showcasing what we have here, the people that I work with here they are the characters that make the place special, and the place, there is connection with this wonderful little part of the world and I hope to work here for a long time to come.
If you could have any other job what would it be and why?
I’d love to work to some degree in football. Be it youth football or on a bigger scale. My own team is Everton but it’s cold sometimes here in the winter, so I’d love to work at Barcelona FC in the heat!
Give us one reason why we should visit a National Trust property?
To get out and enjoy the spaces and connect with culture and history of things around us, in our local environment that we wouldn’t normally know about.
Tell us one thing we might not know about the National Trust?
We are the nation’s largest farmer (UK). We look after about 618,000 acres of land and about 2,000 tenants.
And what about something we might not know about Carrick-a-Rede?
We have those two previously working quarries. One was a limestone quarry - called Larrybane - which is now a GOT location. And then the stone for Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow came from the Dolerite in Brockie quarry, which is also at Carrick-a-Rede.