Meet the team

Bob

Chairman of trustees and executive

Our landscape is a creation of unparalleled beauty. The union of nature with human endeavour. What took millennia to create can be destroyed in an instant if we fail to value it.

CPRE’s dedication to protecting our landscape is why I joined. Simply that.

Barbara

Volunteer and membership manager

My passion for our wildlife and landscape feeds into my artistic practice. I record and share the wildlife on our doorstep. Working with CPRE feels like a natural extension to my own work, just zoomed out to the wider picture. CPRE focuses on the landscape as a whole – on issues of soil and water that affect us all. It’s satisfying to see how our work makes a difference.

Andrew

Director and trustee

A local planning application for over 90 acres of polytunnels adjacent to my garden made me value how well-informed objection to intrusive planning needs to have a voice across our community. CPRE Herefordshire needed trustees, members and volunteers and I had no hesitation is stepping forward. Positive projects using citizen science has also afforded me the possibility to be part of the solutions making Herefordshire a better county.

Rosalind

Trustee

I have had a life-long interest in plant life, both wild and cultivated and am a keen gardener. We are destroying the planet through the destructive policies and practices that we are all engaged in to a greater or lesser extent. I want my grandchildren to inherit a viable planet.

I joined CPRE because I believe that the way in which the land is used is of prime importance in ensuring that there will be good, healthy environments for all forms of life. Planning decisions play a crucial role in determining the future of our beautiful county, our part of the planet.  So I became active in CPRE Herefordshire because of its work commenting on planning applications.  You can find out more about our work on planning applications here.

Virginia

Trustee

Years ago I developed a personal philosophy based on a mantra…’children and the land’. It seemed to me that, in essence, they are all that matters. Our children should be reared to become healthy, contented and productive adults; we all have a duty to look after the land, especially the soil, to ensure the future health of the planet and thus the human race.

I joined CPRE because, in our attempts to protect the environment, I believe their aims and ideals meet these priorities.

Nicola

Trustee

I joined CPRE because of its focus on the planning system. Town planning in Britain grew from a desire to control the impact of man on the environment and to create beautiful settlements.  Britain has largely avoided urban sprawl, this is due to our planning system.

I hate placeless development and development which ruins its setting – there are so many examples of beautiful and sensitive buildings and places – planning is our most powerful tool in improving what we build today.  You can find out more about how to influence a planning application here.

Jenni

Secretary, administrator and CFO

I have always felt the positive benefits of being outdoors, the love of having such awe-inspiring surroundings. However, over numerous years I have become more concerned with the need to protect our rural communities and countryside, feeling helpless to bring about change alone, I realise that we need to tackle these issues that we all face together and this is why I have joined CPRE Herefordshire.

Paul

Trustee and executive

My involvement in working on the CPRE Herefordshire’s citizen science project began around 2 years ago.  In that time I have travelled extensively around this beautiful county helping to identify areas for our volunteers to safely test water.  I see our efforts in this work as being vital in helping to find solutions to the problems the Wye and our other rivers currently face.  More recently I have become a Trustee of the organisation and want to ensure we protect Herefordshire’s beautiful countryside in every way we can.  You can find out more about our citizen science project here.

Angharad

Web and digital media controller

My interest in nature started early having been lucky enough to grow up in the Herefordshire countryside.  Becoming a part of CPRE has been brilliant.  I’ve learnt a lot about our countryside and enjoy working together to protect it.  If you have two minutes spare click here to sign a petition to save our rivers.  Together we can make a difference.

Yolande

Dark skies lead & executive 

My family has been linked to the land for many generations so my connection to the countryside started from a very young age, and I’ve been lucky to live and work in various rural communities in the UK and New Zealand as well as backpack and volunteer in many different countries around the world.

My eclectic career in public health, community development, woodland management, regenerative agriculture and more recently, as a Herefordshire Councillor has only deepened my commitment to protect the countryside from inappropriate development and outdated urban planning policies put upon rural communities. I am proud to serve Herefordshire CPRE.