Campus Community: Mickey Garrod

 

York Biotech Campus is home to leading organisations spanning the bioscience sector, including agri-tech, food biotechnology, and healthcare. This diverse range of businesses brings a variety of job roles and people to the site.

Few individuals embody the ethos of YBC quite like Mickey Garrod, Facilities and Workplace Services Lead at Defra Group Property. As one of the longest-serving members onsite, having joined what was then CSL (Central Science Laboratories) in 1999 in the Estates department, Mickey is truly part of the fabric of the campus and over the years played a vital role in its operations.

Overseeing project management for Defra and APHA, he is something of an oracle when it comes to the site. In this blog, we explore Mickey’s responsibilities, his greatest achievements, and his impactful charity work as a Trustee for Ryedale Special...