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CCN 2009/2010 Board of Trustees

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Rebekah Hoyland (Chair) is the co-ordinator of Dean Community Compost and has lived in the Forest of Dean since 1991. She has been involved in Community Composting for over fifteen years. Between 1994 and 2006 she ran a kerbside collection and composting site for kitchen waste in Newnham on Severn. Rebekah also runs a small box scheme of local biodynamic vegetables that are grown by CVT Oaklands Park. She has developed a large hand powered compost tumbler suitable for dealing with 1000kg of food waste a week with minimal input and has worked as a Compost Doctor. From 2007-2009 Rebekah worked as a Compost officer for Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, promoting home and community composting and no dig-gardening.

Jane Griffiths, Sustainable Waste Manager at Garden Organic, has been co-ordinating projects associated with the Garden Organic Master Composter Programme for over four years. Jane is involved in all aspects of the Master Composter scheme: recruiting, training and supporting Master Composter volunteers, and promoting the schemes. She has previous experience in motivating and engaging the general public in home composting in particular working to enthuse and support volunteers in their vital role. She has been involved in the development of training programmes, promoting the schemes and developing course material. Jane has also been involved with the home composting courses provided by WRAP for their Home Composting Advisors and partners as a session leader, facilitator and course co-ordinator. Her role also includes developing new composting research with partners from the concept stages through to reporting.

Dr Rachel Slater works as a Lecturer in Sustainable Resource Management at The Open University (OU). She is involved in lots of waste and resource based research and is a member of the OU's Integrated Waste Systems Research group. Rachel has led on projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department of the Environment Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) and has carried out consultancy work for local authorities and communities based on organic waste management systems. Over the last five years Rachel has worked with the community resource sector, she recently completed the 'Unlocking the Potential of Community Composting' project in partnership with CCN and was a member of the advisory panel for Defra's Review of the Community Waste Sector. The particular skills and expertise Rachel brings to CCN as a trustee includes input into developing and writing funding proposals; strong policy perspectives; an objective and rigorous research approach, and hopefully a bit of banter!

David Ingham has been involved in recycling and organic waste management since 1999 and has worked for the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames in this capacity since 2002. He has also been involved with the Waste Watch national advice line and SWAP (Save Waste & Prosper). David is currently Acting Deputy Manager at the LBRuT and hopes that local authorities can work more closely with and support their local communities to develop more innovative strategies, partnerships and services to minimise and divert waste from disposal and the associated environmental benefits.As a local authority officer David recognises the potential to work with communities as both the generators of waste/resources and as the market that can close the recycling and reuse loop and add value to materials.

Life for Hugh Baker (Treasurer) with CCN started in 2001 as a CCN Compost Demonstration Site. With the grant Hugh received, he built a mobile fully working compost trailer and started Compost Works to promote home composting in Mole Valley, and has been doing so ever since. Compost Works also supports a permanent compost project and demonstration site at a residential centre for people with disabilities. Hugh has been on the CCN committee since 2002, and has been Treasurer for the last few years, although he hopes to retire next year! Over the last year, he has been involved with the steering group helping to put together the new CCN Strategic and Business Plan.

Richard Pearce has a degree in Chemical Engineering and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was employed in industrial sales and marketing before moving into management consultancy in the mid 1970s. He was one of the founder directors of March Consulting Group in 1983 (now part of Enviros Consulting) and was responsible for the company's policy, strategy and marketing work specialising in the environmental and energy sectors. He has over 30 years' experience in market research, business and market strategy and planning, innovation, new product/market development and the raising of funds from both the public and private sectors.In the waste sector, he has undertaken a wide variety of projects concerned with the diversion of waste from landfill covering waste minimisation, waste recycling, special wastes and treatment technologies such as anaerobic digestion, gasification, pyrolysis and energy-from-waste. He has worked for DEFRA on their Waste Implementation Programme, and has undertaken a number of WRAP funded marketing and business planning projects. His experience includes acting as a chair and board member for not-for-profit and charitable organisations such as Envirolink Northwest and Sustainability Northwest.

Kealan Gell is a 25 year old Canadian with Manx ancestors, and big fan the CCN community and activities. As a CCN ex-staffer, Kealan joined the Management Committee in autumn 2008, mostly working on CCN's small scale Anaerobic Digestion research and development project. Kealans interest in composting, AD, excreta and nutrient re-use has brought him to Wageningen University, the Netherlands where he is currently finishing an MSc in struvite fertilizer and working for the Cabrejou Foundation on small island's self-sufficiency, connecting CCN to some EU and University resources, and finding time to play music about economic growth and climate change.

Richard Northridge's childhood was spent in Kenya where the roots of his current interests were seeded. After secondary school in Brighton he took a degree in law in the 1970s and worked for a London law firm for 10 years before moving to Mid Wales in the 1990s to take up small holding in Montgomeryshire. Between London and Mid Wales he spent a couple of years learning about permaculture, or permanent agriculture, in Australia where the concept was "invented" and put into practice. In 1998 he founded Cwm Harry Land Trust which has been concerned with finding the answer to this question: how does a local community own its own waste, extract wealth from that material and retain it for local benefit? In 2007 Cwm Harry started food waste collections in Newtown, the first food waste collections in Wales operated by a community sector organisation and has developed its own In Vessel Composting plant which it opened the following year. It now services about 12,000 households in N Powys and is involved in community supported agriculture.