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Natural England register of board members' interests 2026

Updated 7 May 2026

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
• Environmental Ambassador - Fields in Trust (formerly the National Playing Fields Association)
• Member of the Cambridge Zero Management Committee
• The Leverhulme Trust
• Member - Friends of the Earth
• Member - Greenpeace
• Member - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• 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

Cynthia Alers

Remunerated interests

• Non-Exec Board member - UK Endorsement Board
• Non–Exec Boad member - Power Probe Plc
• Remuneration Chair – Power Probe Plc
• Director - MassWill Biotechnology Company (has not received remuneration for last 5 years)

Unremunerated interests

• Trustee and Chair of the Board of Trustees Director - Uppingham School

Professor Lynn Dicks

Remunerated interests

• Professor of Ecology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
• Fellow and College Lecturer in Zoology, Selwyn College, Cambridge

Unremunerated interests

• Founding Trustee of East Suffolk Trust (EaST)
• Nature-Based Systems lead and Committee Member for Fenland SOIL
• Royal Entomological Society Fellow
• Co-Chair of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Global Food security
• Cool Farm Alliance (member of Science Advisory Committee)
• Member of Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Research Portfolio Scientific Advisory Board, Scottish Government
• 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

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

Dr Alastair Leake

Remunerated interests

• Policy Director, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
• Director, Game & Wildlife Scottish Demonstration Farm
• Director, Allerton Research & Educational Trust

Unremunerated interests

• Rutland Agricultural Society, Trustee Director since 15 May 2018
• Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (Administration) Ltd. Director
• Secretary - Ruggles Equestrian Ltd
• The Earthworm Society
• Historic Commercial Vehicle Society
• Linking Environment & Farming (LEAF)
• Fellow of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Societies
• Fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Management
• Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
• Honorary Fellow of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany
• Member of the BASIS Professional Register
• Chartered Environmentalist, Society for the Environment
• Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, Environment and Land-use Group
• Wildlife Estates European Scientific Committee
• Voluntary Initiative National Steering Group
• Bracken Control Group
• SG Rodenticide Monitoring Group
• Policy Strategy Group

Political activity

• Coordinator for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Game & Wildlife Conservation

James Scott

Remunerated interests

• Project Board member, Manydown Project
• Partnership Board member, Wintringham Project
• Senior Adviser, Dorrington PLC
• Group Director of Strategy and Planning for Urban&Civic Estates Limited

Unremunerated interests

• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Royal Academy of Art
• Hurlingham Club
• Carlton Club
• The Law Society, Solicitor and Member
• Director, Geodemos Ltd – (a longstanding dormant company that has never traded)

Kim Shillinglaw

Remunerated interests

• Board member - The Natural Environment Research Council
• Member - Ofcom Content Board
• Board member - National Highways
• Non-executive Independent Board Member at DSIT
• External Director - Britain’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)

Unremunerated interests

• Board member - Raspberry Pi Foundation

Mark Tufnell

Remunerated interests

• Calmsden Farms
• Calmsden Estate, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Unremunerated interests

• Director of Calmsden Limited
• Director of Upper Coln Farm & Stud ltd
• Bare Trustee of Cotswold Conservative Association
• Trustee of: Calmsden Poor Downs Allotment
• Trustee of: The Colesbourne Estate
• National Trust
• Country Land and Business Association
• National Farmers Union
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
• British Association for Shooting and Conservation
• President of Glos Root Fruit & Grain Society
• Council member of Three Counties Agricultural Society and Chair of its Risk and Audit Committee
• Trustee of The Carlie Tufnell Charitable Trust
• Lead farmer in the Cotswold Farm Cluster group, the cluster is a recipient of funding from the Facilitation Fund
• Chair of Cotswold Grey Partridge Group
• Chair of Cotswold Central Hills Deer Management Group

• Chair of North Cerney Parish Council

• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Chartered Institute of Taxation

Political activity

• Eldest son, Henry Tufnell, is Labour MP for mid and south Pembrokeshire
• Resigned membership of the Conservative Party in April 2024

Peter Unwin

Unremunerated interests

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