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Tim Day - Director of Development & Alumni
Tim Day was educated at Bilton Grange (74-83) and Rugby (T 83-88) before spending a gap year on the staff at Holmwood House Prep School. He subsequently read Classics at the University of Liverpool and trained as a teacher of Classics with Mathematics at the University of Nottingham. Tim taught Classics at Norwich School for 13 years where he was Housemaster of a day house, Head of cricket and 1st XV rugby football coach.
Tim moved to Rugby in 2006 as a teacher of Classics before serving as Deputy Housemaster of Whitelaw and then Housemaster of Michell from 2009-2022. In his three years as Registrar, Tim particularly enjoyed his role in the recruitment of Arnold Foundationers and local children through the bursaries generated by the Lawrence Sheriff bequest.
Tim remains an active all-round schoolmaster, teaching junior Latin, refereeing rugby whenever possible and supporting the army section of the CCF, where he has earned the Cadet Forces Medal. A lifelong prop forward at many and various clubs, Tim's other major interests are record-collecting and supporting county cricket, primarily at Leicestershire CCC, where he has served on the Nominations Committee.
As Director of Development and Alumni since 2025, Tim supports Rugbeian Society events and is President of the Bilton Grange Society. He looks forward to collaborating with all the schools in the Rugby School Group, and promoting the mission to raise funds for the provision of transformational bursaries.
Tim is married to Lucy and their three children are Rugbeians, and the youngest a Biltonian.
Natalie Pretsell - Assistant Director of Development and Alumni
Natalie joined the Rugbeian Community in June 2025 having spent five years in the independent school sector and a long management career in children’s social care prior to this. Natalie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Criminology, a Masters in Social Work and a Certificate in Fundraising with the Chartered Institute of Fundraising.
Joining as the new Assistant Director of Development and Alumni, Natalie is looking forward to meeting with all alumni from across the Rugby School Group community and raising funds for the life-changing Arnold Foundation and various other fundraising streams across the Group.
Outside of work, Natalie has a young family who she enjoys spending time with and can often be found on long dog walks with her two canine companions Daisy and Fynn. Natalie also enjoys reading, gardening, running and training for Hyrox.
Tracey Ahmet – Alumni Relations Manager
Tracey joined the Rugbeian Society in 2010 and since then, has built up an extensive knowledge of everything alumni. Previously she worked in the events industry for several charities and a luxury hotel primarily in organising events and conferences.
Over the last twelve years Tracey has not only developed an engaging and inclusive events programme, but also expanded the Rugbeian internship scheme, promoting the aims of the Society to engage and support younger Rugbeians. She also co-edits the Floreat publication.
She has attended too many events to count and relishes meeting as many Rugbeians as she can from all over the world!
In her spare time Tracey enjoys feeding up the rest of the team with her delicious baking, shopping, reading, vacationing, and can often be found getting her steps in around The Close or at Draycott Water.
Abbie Barns – Global Data Manager
Abbie joined the Rugbeian Community team in June 2021 from her previous role as a credit controller at a pharmaceutical company. Prior to this she attended the University of Sheffield where she completed a Batchelor of Science in Geography before moving back to her hometown of Daventry.
Outside of the office Abbie can often be found on top of a hill in the Peak District or gallivanting all over the UK meeting friends from university.
Evan Lack - Data and Research Manager
Evan joined the Rugbeian Community team in May 2017 after 19 years in higher education fundraising at Oxford University. Evan was curious to see how schools development would differ, so seized the opportunity to combine his love of research and data geekiness here at Rugby.
Evan missed his calling in life to work for GCHQ or become a spy, so is thrilled that he gets to indulge his professional inquisitiveness here instead and therefore play a pivotal behind-the scenes role in Rugbeian Community activities.
Away from a computer, Evan is a keen birdwatcher, aviation enthusiast, landscape and nature photographer, weather watcher/storm chaser, astronomer and UFO conspiracy theorist. Otherwise, Evan loves being a ‘dad’ to his two dogs and is still beaming with pride that his eldest was Mini Poodle British Flyball Champion in 2016.
Liselle Dixon - Rugbeian Community Liaison Officer
Liselle joined the Rugbeian Community team in February 2022, after 14 years working in schools, initially creating and running science events, facilitating leadership courses and finally recruiting and training graduate teachers. She believes the most wonderful part of any job is encouraging, witnessing and supporting the progress of students, colleagues and trainees.
Previously, working as a supervisor in business travel for a good many years enabled her to see many very exciting places, but having two sons, both currently at university, has led to less exploration for the time being.
Liselle loves swimming, skiing, sailing, kayaking, but is just as happy travelling either to a swanky hotel or a tent in a field to sit in the sunshine with a good book. Liselle's highlight of the year is when she supports on the school Duke of Edinburgh expeditions.
