Our Guides
Listed below are some of our guides who have helped to make Shepherds Walks what it is today.
Jon Monks
Jon Monks – Originally from the North West of England Jon’s background was in agriculture.
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Jane Monks
Jane is a fully qualified Nordic walking instructor and her passion and enthusiasm for Nordic Walking is second to none.
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Paul Freeman
Originally trained as a Teacher of Outdoor Education, Paul’s experience crosses the voluntary, public and business sectors where he has worked in a variety of roles spanning community development, health, higher education and small business investment. Paul’s focus for Shepherds Walks is on first aid training and first aid cover for outdoor events. Paul also teaches all of our map and compass courses.
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Andrea Harrison
Andrea's enthusiasm for the great outdoors started at the green age of 5 after she climbed her first mountain in a pair of wellies and a plastic mac! (Gore-tex wasn't invented then!).
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John Gardiner
John has been a volunteer for Shepherds Walks since the end of 2010.John has proved invaluable over this time with his professional attitude to everything he does for Shepherds Walks; he is an active back marker on our walks and has also attended our GPS Training day. John is also a great photographer with many of the images on our blogs and YouTube films coming from John’s lens, so if somebody points a camera at you during one of our events I suspect it will be John!As with all our staff and volunteers John is a competent First Aider and an all round nice bloke.
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Ian Payne
Ian likes nothing better than to escape to the South Downs from his work in busy South East London.
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Mark Nordmann
Mark’s working life was primarily in the financial sector but for the past 15 years his passion has been walking and trekking and he has been an active volunteer with Shepherds Walks since 2015.
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