The current Bach Centre team
Kathy Nicholson
Kathy is the person most likely to pick up the phone. She is a veteran of the days when the mother tinctures were bottled for sale in a shed at the back of the house, and for a time she moved to Abingdon when the bottling operations moved in 1991.
A few years later, though, she came back to the Centre as receptionist and main administration support. She shows visitors around and runs the little shop at the back. She is also a Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner and gives advice to callers over the phone.
Kathy has a grown up son called David and lives a few miles away in the village of Shillingford.
June King
June joined the Bach Centre team in 1999.
She works closely with Kathy running the mail order service and giving advice to callers by phone.
She also helps keep the practitioner register up to date and shows visitors around.
June has two grown up children and two grandchildren. She lives not too far from the Centre in the village of Harwell.
Judy Ramsell Howard
Judy is head of the Bach Centre. A trained nurse, health visitor and midwife, she has been here since the mid-eighties, when her father John Ramsell asked her to come and help run the Centre.
Judy pioneered the first practitioner courses in the early 1990s and has been involved in just about every aspect of the Centre's work. She is a trustee of the Dr Edward Bach Healing Trust and was personally trained by John in the making of mother tinctures.
Judy has written several books on the remedies. She has two children, Sam and Fay, and lives in Warborough, about two miles from the Centre.
Stefan Ball
Stefan started full time work at the Centre in 1996 - although before that he helped occasionally with translation work and other bits and pieces.
Stefan has written several books on the remedies. He oversees educational and assessment standards for all Bach Centre-approved courses and runs the Bach Foundation International Register. He also runs the computers - including writing and HTML-ing these web pages.
Stefan lives a mile away in Wallingford, and has three children: Alexandra, Madeleine, and Ethan.
Peter Warren
Peter is based full-time at Mount Vernon, but is employed part-time by the Bach Centre. His duties for us include taking charge of 'back office' functions such as accounts, invoices and so on.
The rest of the time Peter works for Nelsons, as he is responsible for making the mother tinctures used in their products.
Being based at the Centre, he is ready to take advantage of a sunny morning at a moment's notice - essential in our unreliable climate.
Emma Broad
Emma is the Bach Centre gardener, responsible for keeping the garden tidy and not at all neat.
Emma has a keen interest in wildlife gardening. Before coming to Mount Vernon in 2003 she worked for the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, one of the main wildlife and nature conservation organizations in this part of England.
She is a fund of knowledge about the flowers and the garden, and always willing to show a visitor around and point out the remedy plants.
Sheila Warren
Sheila is married to Peter and works part-time at Mount Vernon. Along with Peter she is responsible for keeping the accounts and wage records up to date.
Sheila worked at Nelsons for 32 years before leaving to join the Bach Centre.
She and Peter have 2 children, 5 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. They live a few miles away in the village of Long Wittenham.
Keith Howard
Keith is married to Judy. For many years he was the main remedy maker at the Centre, having been trained to do this by John and Judy.
He is still involved in overseeing the preparation of mother tinctures on behalf of the Bach Centre and keeps an eye on the plants in all their locations so that the mother tinctures can be prepared when the flowers are at their best.
