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Natural England register of board members' interests 2024

Published 3 May 2024

Applies to England

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This register lists current interests held by Natural England board members. It includes:

  • directorships, board memberships or other positions
  • employment
  • company shareholdings
  • significant landholdings
  • political activity
  • membership of professional societies and associations
  • lay memberships

Dr Tony Juniper CBE

Remunerated interests

  • Director and employee of TonyJuniper.com Limited

Unremunerated interests

  • Board of Trustees – Cool Earth
  • Member of Council of Trustees - Flora and Fauna International
  • Member - Friends of the Earth
  • Member - Greenpeace
  • Member - RSPB
  • Member - Wildlife Trusts
  • Member - National Trust
  • Member – Butterfly Conservation

Marian Spain (ex officio Board member)

Remunerated interests

  • Chief Executive, Natural England

Unremunerated interests

  • Plantlife International
  • Campaign for National Parks
  • National Trust

The Rt Hon Lord Blencathra

Remunerated interests

  • Board Member – Food Standards Agency
  • Board Member – Community Interest Company - Clean Streets

Unremunerated interests

  • Board Member – Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Appointed by His Majesty’s Government to the Council of Europe

Political activity

  • Member of the House of Lords taking the Conservative Party Whip
  • Member of the House of Lords Liaison Committee

Professor Mel Austen

Remunerated interests

  • Professor of Ocean and Society, University of Plymouth

Unremunerated interests

  • Director - Carew Wharf Management Company Limited
  • Chair - Partnership of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in North Devon
  • Board Member – Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Royal Society of Biology
  • British Ecological Society
  • Marine Biological Association
  • Member - National Trust
  • Member - Royal National Lifeboat Institute

Professor Lynn Dicks

Remunerated interests

  • Professor of Ecology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge

Unremunerated interests

  • Trustee, Royal Entomological Society
  • Royal Entomological Society
  • Cool Farm Alliance (member of Science Advisory Committee)
  • British Ecological Society
  • Society for Conservation Biology
  • Member - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
  • Member - Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants
  • Member - Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society

Catherine Dugmore

Remunerated interests

  • Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB, Non Executive Member and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee
  • Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, NED, Senior Independent Director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee
  • Housing 21, Board Member and Chair of Audit Assurance Committee

Unremunerated interests

  • Aldwickbury School Trust, School Governor
  • Member - Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wale (ICAEW)
  • Ambassador – World Wildlife Fund (WWF UK)
  • Member - National Trust
  • Lifetime member – Kew Friends

Professor Clare Fitzsimmons

Remunerated interests

  • Marine scientist, Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Degree Programme Director at the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University

Unremunerated interests

  • Board Member - Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Henry Robinson

Unremunerated interests

  • BHR Resources Limited
  • Trustee – Bowood Estate
  • Trustee – Flete Estate
  • Trustee – Brimpsfield Park Estate
  • Fellow – Royal Agricultural Society
  • Country Land and Business Association (CLA)
  • National Farmers Union (NFU)
  • Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) Landscape Recovery pilot

Significant landholdings

  • Moor Wood Farm

Kim Shillinglaw

Remunerated interests

  • Board member - The Natural Environment Research Council
  • Member - Ofcom Content Board
  • Board member - Axis Studios Group
  • Non-executive Independent Board Member at BEIS
  • External Director - Britain’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
  • Chair – Wellcome Trust Project

Unremunerated interests

  • Board member - Raspberry Pi Foundation

Dame Caroline Spelman

Unremunerated interests

  • Non Executive Director, Commonwealth Games England Board
  • Trustee of Church of England and Chair of Diocese Commission
  • Member of the Conservative Party
  • Trustee of British Horse Society
  • National Trust
  • Royal Society for Protection of Birds
  • Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Peter Unwin

Unremunerated interests

  • Director – Yester Park Maintenance Ltd
  • Chair of Chislehurst Golf Club Ltd
  • Aldersgate Group
  • Royal Society for Protection of Birds
  • National Trust
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