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Back to presentations: Managing and enhancing the visitor experience in botanic and historic gardens
Jenny Mayer is General Manager at English Heritage’s Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. Wrest Park now attracts over 100,000 visitors per year having re-launched in 2011 following the first phase of a 20 year revitalisation project to restore the garden. Previously, Jenny was Property Operations & Marketing Manager at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill in Twickenham. Jenny was part of the team brought in to open the house and garden to visitors after two years of work on this £9m HLF funded restoration project. Having also spent a brief time at Nymans with the National Trust, in a previous life, Jenny was Head of Production at a city-based event services company for several years.