The Trustees
Dedicated to preserving the historic property and ensuring its use aligns with the values and mission of the Old Manor Farm Preservation Trust.
Our Mission
The Trustees of Old Manor Farm are dedicated to preserving the historic property and ensuring its use aligns with the values and mission of the Old Manor Farm Preservation Trust. The trustees oversee the maintenance of the farm’s heritage, manage community outreach initiatives, and support charitable endeavours rooted in Christian principles. Their work helps maintain the legacy of Old Manor Farm while fostering its role as a center for local community engagement and religious activities.
The Right Reverend Bishop David Richard John Evans
Trustee
David was born in 1938 and pursued his education at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he earned his BA in 1963 and his MA in 1966. He began his ecclesiastical career at Clifton College in 1963, was ordained as a Deacon in 1965, and became a Priest in 1966. His journey in ministry took him to various parts of the world, serving as Bishop in Peru from 1978 to 1988 and concurrently as Bishop of Bolivia from 1982 to 1988. He later served as an Assistant Bishop in Bradford from 1988 to 1993, followed by a role as General Secretary of the South American Mission Society (SAMS) from 1993 to 2003.
David also held several honorary positions, including Honorary Assistant Bishop in Chichester (1994-1997), Rochester (1995-1997), and Birmingham (1997-2003), while continuing his ministry as Honorary Curate in the Stourdene Group of parishes from 2003 to 2010. Since his retirement in 2003, he has remained active as Honorary Assistant Bishop of Coventry and currently serves as the Patron of the CMJ.
David enjoys spending his free time playing golf and engaging in philately. He is married to Dorothy, with whom he shares three married children and ten grandchildren.
The Reverend H. Beverley Tasker
Trustee
The Reverend H. Beverley Tasker was born on May 22, 1941, and has led a life marked by service, both in ministry and in the military. He was educated at Grange and Hanson Grammar Schools in Bradford, Yorkshire, before serving in the Royal Air Force as a Ground Wireless Fitter in military intelligence during the Cold War. After his military service, he trained for the ordained ministry in the Church of England, studying theology and philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. His ministry began with an urban curacy in Manchester, followed by serving as Chaplain at the Christie Hospital, Manchester, and later a rural curacy in Bingley, Yorkshire.
During his time in the Royal Air Force, he held a short service commission as a chaplain and earned a BA in philosophy and literature. Reverend Tasker went on to serve as a parish priest in the villages of Somerset for thirty years. He was also involved in trusteeships before his retirement, including the Feoffees of Compton Dando and the Board of Governors of St. Brandon’s Clergy Daughter’s School.
He married Barbara, a strong and influential Christian, while at Oxford, and together they had a daughter, Jane, who is happily married with three sons. Sadly, Reverend Tasker’s wife has passed on.
Nicholas Winnington-Ingram
Trustee
Nicholas Winnington-Ingram (Nick) is a British National who lives with his wife in Hungary.
Gerald Winnington-Ingram
Trustee
Gerald is a British national and former practising Barrister-at-law (technically referred to as being an ‘Unregistered Barrister’), with a background as a senior executive and CEO of private and plc companies, industry-centric and strategic consulting – such as having been a regional lead Principal of IBM Global Services – and as a seasoned entrepreneur and start-up ‘Founder’.
He has specialised in strategic planning, business development and corporate legal/business affairs, and has an eclectic experience of some 30 years, predominantly in the TMT (Telecom Media Technology) industries. He also has now a decade of grounding in environmental sustainability, focusing on impact enterprises with innovative, disruptive technologies and solutions, and in particular the up-cycling of ‘waste’ to resources and renewables.
Gerald identifies with the epithet “sustainopreneur” (aligning entrepreneurialism and sustainability innovations so that problems are turned into business opportunities), and in focusing on sourcing and/or creating and commercially executing viable and socially beneficial and sustainable – as well as often disruptive – innovations. In additional to having a passion for team-founding and nurturing purpose-driven enterprises, he is committed to the vision of organisations reinventing themselves, and ‘The Teal paradigm’, and a global paradigm shift from traditional hierarchical corporate structures and practices to one where corporate entities embrace such values (e.g as in the B-Corporation model).
Gerald now has a major focus and purpose in creative vocational higher education, with a strongly holistic approach embracing Meaningful-Media and the educational development of ‘Impact’ centric entrepreneurialism.
Aligned to this purpose he shares the progressively globally recognised commitment to working on bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, personally/spiritually fulfilling and socially just presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our times. He lives with his wife in Hong Kong and has family in England.