Will is happily married to his very supportive and loving wife, Maria. They have four beautiful children: Nicola (9), Joanna (7), William (5), and Lucy (3).

Will’s outdoor living and wilderness survival background includes:

• 4 years spent travelling overseas hitchiking all over the world with most nights spent sleeping under an old poncho.
• Wilderness expeditions often undertaken in extreme conditions in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Colorado Rocky Mountains, European Alps, Scandinavian wilderness, Californian Cascade Mountains, and a 1000 mile trek across France and Spain from Le Puy to Santiago.
• 5 years with the British Army as a Rifleman in 6 Rifles, The Rifles’ reserve infantry battalion.
• Countless adventures – from jumping freight trains into the unknown, to hitchiking across war torn countries, to staying on a Canadian First Nations reservation in the Rocky Mountains with the Aseniwuche Winewak. 
• 10 years as a skilled bushcraft instructor with extensive experience teaching groups how to survive in the wild.

His Catholic youth ministry experience includes:

• Working on full time evangelisation teams running retreats, parish missions, and doing outreach in schools.
• Working in a Catholic retreat centre.
• Working as a school chaplain.
• Coordinating youth ministry across Bournemouth and Poole.
• Coordinating youth ministry across Portsmouth Diocese.