Staff & Trustees

His family business runs two award-winning bookshops and a record store in Bournemouth and Wimborne. He was Chair of Education Swanage between 2009 and 2015, successfully leading negotiations with the Department for Education which led to the opening of The Swanage School. He acted as Chair of Governors for the first two years of operation and continues to play a role as Parent Governor.

She has lived with her family in Swanage for 15 years and is passionate about the development of a greater range of facilities within the town. Dawn has always had a particular interest in film and theatre; supporting in, particular, the Swanage Rep seasons and the Purbeck Film Festival. She believes both present a unique opportunity for work experience for local students.  In her previous home in Hampshire, Dawn led initiatives to reinstate the village fete and chaired the local playgroup and the Community Centre Association.

Nick is employed on behalf of the Department for International Trade giving export advice to South West businesses. He attends a wide variety of concerts and gigs and prior to joining the Mowlem trustees he ran a regular acoustic music night, bringing up and coming singer songwriters from both the UK and USA to an intimate venue in Swanage.

Nick is often to be found backstage in the theatre helping the different companies and societies with the production aspects of their shows, be it stage management, set construction, scenery building and more.

A former chairman of the Swanage Sea Rowing Club charity, Nick is also the Deputy Station Officer of the Swanage Coastguard Rescue Team having served as a volunteer Coastguard Rescue Officer in the town for in excess of 10 years.

First in 1970 a Housing Association in London, then in 1975 an experimental design build section of Direct Labour in Haringey and finally since 1980 a private family business designing and manufacturing playground equipment, where, following the sale of the business to its employees in 2008, he has remained as Chairman. From 1989 until 2008 he was Founder Chairman of Square Chapel Performing Arts Centre in Halifax. He is now retired and lives in Swanage with his wife who is a conservation Architect and the daughter of the Swanage Photographer, Helen Dunman.

She was Head of Creative, Performing Arts and Media before becoming Vice Principal at Bournemouth and Poole College. She has been a trustee for the Wessex Youth Orchestra and for the Study Gallery, Poole, and for 14 years has been chair of the Purbeck Film Festival. As a long-time resident of Swanage, whose children were born and educated here and now live locally, she is excited to join the board of trustees of The Mowlem.

Her career in theatre includes free-lance work at The National Theatre, The Old Vic, Hampstead Theatre, The Arcola and the Bristol Old Vic. Work on TV includes directing for EastEnders, Holby City, Casualty and Judge John Deed. Deborah has written and directed for radio drama inc. BBC Radio 4. She regularly works in major Drama Schools in London and develops her work through her company Paigeworks.