Board committees

Anthony Rae / Ben Jackson / Bonnie Horsman / Clive Parsons / Dave Coleman / Hilary Griffiths / Jeremy Birch / Jess Gold / John Halladay / Mark Hammond / Michael Hughes / Mike Smyth / Pat Chapman-Pincher / Paula Whitney / Simon Counsell / Stewart Crocker

 Anthony Rae

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected Board member for North East and Yorkshire and the Humber
• Member of: Engagement Committee; Campaigns Committee (Chair)
• Elected: 2002, (re-elected) 2005 and 2008
• Due for re-election: 2009

Studied at Manchester University. 20 years experience of strategy development, urban regeneration, communications and marketing and corporate strategy.
 
Full time volunteer with Friends of the Earth Yorkshire & Humber. Co-ordinator of Calderdale Friends of the Earth.

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 Ben Jackson

• Friends of the Earth Limited
• Recruited: 2009

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  Bonnie Horsman

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected member for Northern Ireland
• Elected: 2009
• Due for re-election 2012

MA (Trinity College Dublin) and MSc in Leadership for Sustainable Development (Queens University Belfast). Group Coordinator of Friends of the Earth, Banbridge & Mourne. Steering Group member of Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland (TIN). Board Member of Warrenpoint Harbour Authority. Heads up a consultancy company called 'New Way Solutions' that focuses on the interface between environmental idealism and commercial practice.

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 Clive Parsons

• Friends of the Earth Limited
• Member of: Operational Excellence Committee (Chair)
• Recruited: 2006

Started career as a local government accountant, also worked as Finance Director of Turning Point and KPMG.  Currently works freelance on IT projects for the BBC.

Has 4 young children and enjoys taking them hill walking to learn from the natural world.

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  Dave Coleman

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected Board Member for the North-West
• Member of: Engagement Committee (Chair)
• Elected: 2004, 2007
• Due for re-election: 2010

With a career in business, currently owns a management training consultancy.

Enjoys listening to music, cycling on and off road, white-water kayaking, climbing.

Was Co-ordinator of Manchester Friends of the Earth in 2003.

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  Hilary Griffiths

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected Board member for South East
• Member of: Engagement Committee
• Elected: 2007
• Due for re-election: 2010

A career in education, currently teaching secondary school Science and Maths in a variety of different schools.

Enjoys walking, squash, theatre, natural history and geology.

Co-ordinator of Guildford and Waverley Friends of the Earth.

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  Jeremy Birch

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected member for South West
• Elected: 2009
• Due for re-election 2012

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  Jess Gold

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected member for London
• Elected: 2009
• Due for re-election 2012

Studied at Manchester University. Following a career promoting school councils, she has established Project Earth Rock, a programme to teach about sustainability and climate change through song. She likes dancing, anything musical and protesting.

Joint co-ordinator for Camden, she is interested in how you can make local groups more satisfying and effective for all involved.

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 John Halladay

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected Board member for South Central
• Member of: Engagement Committee
• Elected: 2008
• Due for re-election: 2011

John's particular interests in the environmental field include recycling, the concept of individual carbon allowances and the effect of increasing world population on the environment. He works as a Human Resources consultant greening the employment practices in UK companies and is also the joint co-ordinator of Bracknell & District Friends of the Earth.

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 Mark Hammond

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected Board member for East and West Midlands
• Member of: Engagement Committee; Operational Excellence Committee
• Elected: 2004, 2007
• Due for re-election: 2010

Solid State Physics BSc and BA in Art & Design.

Enjoys gardening, mist propagation, music, computer hardware and other electronics, airbrushing, ray tracing (programming), and thinking.

Mark is registered partially sighted.

Friends of the Earth member since 1988. Co-ordinator of Rugby Friends of the Earth. 

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  Michael Hughes

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected member for Cymru
• Elected: 2009
• Due for re-election 2012

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 Mike Smyth

• Friends of the Earth Trust (Chair)
• Member of: Operational Excellence Committee, Campaigns Committee
• Co-opted Trustee: 1983

A solicitor specialising in commercial law recently retired as a partner of Lawrence Graham, a major London legal practice.  Advises Friends of the Earth on commercial legal matters. 

Local Group member of Friends of the Earth since 1973, currently with the Guildford and Waverley group.

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  Pat Chapman-Pincher

• Friends of the Earth Trust
• Member of: Campaigns Committee; Operational Excellence Committee
• Recruited: 2006

Masters degree in Environment, Politics and Globalisation.

Career in the IT industry working both locally and globally.

Member of the East London Groundwork Board. Hopes to bring a global business perspective to the work of Friends of the Earth.

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 Paula Whitney

• Friends of the Earth Trust and Limited
• Elected Board member for the East of England
• Member of: Engagement Committee
• Elected: 2005, (re-elected) 2008
• Due for re-election: 2009

A retired teacher. Started career as a BBC Company Secretary.  Set up The Green Lamp restaurant in Colchester. 

Founder member and Co-ordinator of Colchester Friends of the Earth.

 

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 Simon Counsell

• Friends of the Earth Limited (Chair)
• Member of: Operational Excellence Committee;Campaigns Committee
• Co-opted: 2006

Graduated in Environmental Science. Joined Friends of the Earth as a volunteer in 1986 shaping our rainforest campaign.

Director of the Rainforest Foundation in 1997. Led international efforts to protect the rainforests and their inhabitants.

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 Stewart Crocker

• Friends of the Earth Trust
• Member of: Operational Excellence Committee; Engagement Committee
• Recruited April 2008

An earlier career in farming led to twin passions for nature conservation and international development. Currently Director of Fundraising and Communications for Hope and Homes for Children. Enjoys organic gardening and Fell walking.

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