I am 49, married with one daughter and live in Bolsover. I have over 30 years experience in Local Government starting out as a trainee and ultimately serving over five years as a Local Authority Chief Executive. I have professional qualifications in Environmental Health and Housing Management and Master’s Degrees in Business Administration and Quality Management.
Seeing at first hand the processes by which national and local policies are developed helped me realise that our actions on climate change fall a long way short of showing the world leadership needed to prevent global temperature rises of over two degrees. I therefore left Local Government, joined the Green Party and started my own environmental consultancy business “A Climate for Change” (AC4C.co.uk). For me action on climate change is part of a process of building a more equal and inclusive society and having undertaken some voluntary work with young homeless people I have embarked on an MA in Social Work.
When not working my hobbies are cycling, music and losing a constant battle with weeds on my allotment. I am very active in the ex-mining community where we live and I have led successful bids to get the funding for our own local gala and to bring young an older people together for film and even Wii evenings. I also lead an environmental action group through which we are investigating the potential of a community-owned wind turbine.
