Debbie Dance

Debbie Dance was appointed a Trustee in April 2008. She has been the Director of Oxford Preservation Trust since 1999, the successful Oxford based charity which owns over 900 acres and listed buildings in and around the City.

 

 

 

She has spent her career in the built environment beginning as a commercial property surveyor before gaining an MSc in Historic Conservation (distinction) at Oxford Brookes University and moving on to work for the Birmingham Conservation Trust before returning to Oxford. She has completed a number of award winning conservation projects including the regeneration of Oxford Castle.

Debbie holds a number of national roles as well as her role as a Trustee of the Trust she is currently Chair of the Historic Towns Forum (October 2009) and is national conservation judge for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors International RICS Property Awards. She is a past chair of the UK Association of Preservation Trusts, and member of the Heritage Lottery Fund South East.