Council Officers and Elected Members

Trustees for the year 2025/2026

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Chairman

David Atkins, JP. RIBA

David was born in Carlton, Notts. attending school at Nottingham Boys High School before architectural training at Nottingham School of Art (1948-53). He has been a trustee since 2004.

He married in 1954 and has three children and four granddaughters.

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Honorary Secretary and Technical Adviser

Alan Wahlers

Alan is a chartered architect, with extensive experience in local government and private practice. Born in Liverpool, he moved to Nottinghamshire at an early age and went on to study at Sheffield University. Upon qualification, a period in local government as senior architect was followed by a spell in private practice before setting-up his own practice in 1987.

Alan joined the NBPT as a technical adviser in 1985 leading a number of successful projects since joining, including setting up the website in 2000 and more recently work on the museums in Tuxford and towards cataloguing the NBPT archives.

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Honorary Treasurer

Jon Dawson, FCA BA

Jonathan is a chartered accountant with 40 years of experience in practice. He joined NBPT as Treasurer on 6 December 2016, bringing a lifetime interest in history, cricket and heritage.


Technical Officers

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Notts CC Technical Adviser

Jason Mordan

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Notts CC Member and Web Design

Janine Buckley


The Council of Management

The Council of Management comprises the Trustees plus representatives of the following bodies

Ashfield District Council – no representative offered 

CPRE – John Ydlibi    

Nottinghamshire County Council – Cllr. Roger Upton  

The Thoroton Society – Rosemary Muge

Nottinghamshire Local History Association – Bob Massey