We are delighted to be able to share with you that we have recently appointed four new trustees and four new associate trustees to our board, strengthening our efforts to fight climate breakdown.
Earlier this year we embarked on a recruitment campaign and were overwhelmed with both the quantity and quality of applicants.
Our Chair, Tracey Hart said
“We were inundated with applications from a wide diversity of brilliant candidates, illustrating the level of interest in and demand for action on climate breakdown. Candidates came from all walks of life but were united in their desire to protect Cumbria from ever more extreme weather.”
Our new board members have been selected specifically to steer the charity to meet its aim for a zero carbon Cumbria by 2037.
Kirsten Prosser, Patrin Watanatada, Joanna Howard and Harrison Stewart have been appointed as full trustees. Respectively they bring expertise in business support, home energy service management, and integrating climate change education at university level.
Four people have been appointed as associate trustees, with Vicky Simpson, Martyn Ditchfield, Charlie Addison-Adams and Tony Ferguson bringing expert knowledge of plant-based diets and young people, rural deprivation, agriculture and environmental policy and accountancy and sustainability respectively.
Our Chief Executive, Karen Mitchell, commented:
‘We’re really pleased to be able to give the Associate Trustees their first experience of being on a charity Board and hope that they will be inspired to become full Trustees, with all the legal responsibilities that entails, in due course.’
Established in 1998, our mission is to inspire and support individuals, communities, organisations and businesses across the county to decarbonise. By 2037, we wants to see a net zero county which is socially, environmentally, and economically beneficial for all.
We win funding from trusts and foundations to bring new projects to Cumbria, ranging from helping people at risk of fuel poverty to improve their home energy efficiency and save on bills, to its Green Enterprise Hub, which helps businesses to reduce carbon emissions. It also leads the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership – the largest initiative of its kind in the country, bringing together a large number and diversity of organisations to plan and deliver Cumbria’s pathway to net zero carbon.