Meet Dame Fiona
Dame Fiona Reynolds is widely recognised as one of the UK’s most respected leaders in conservation, public service, and education. Over several decades she has shaped national thinking on heritage, landscape protection, and rural policy, and continues to play an influential role across public and charitable institutions.
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Dame Fiona Reynolds is widely recognised as one of the UK’s most respected leaders in conservation, public service, and education. Over several decades she has shaped national thinking on heritage, landscape protection, and rural policy, and continues to play an influential role across public and charitable institutions.
She is currently Chair of the National Audit Office, the Governing Council of the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England and Cambridge University’s Botanic Garden. She was previously Director-General of the National Trust.
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Fiona has lived in Coates, near Cirencester since 2002 with her husband Bob Merrill and their three daughters grew up here. She is Patron of New Brewery Arts in Cirencester and President of the hugely successful Cirencester History Festival which was founded in 2024. She is President of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and a Vice-President of CPRE nationally and its Gloucestershire Branch.
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