Natural England register of board members' interests 2024
Published 3 May 2024
Applies to England
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