Our Trustees and Council
Our Trustees and Council
At the heart of the Association are our Board of Trustees and our Council, supported by Committees. Officers, Trustees and members of Council are elected by the membership. Co-option may take place between AGMs. Committees are chaired by trustees or members of Council, but committee members may be drawn from the wider membership or be volunteers co-opted for the special expertise or skills they bring.
The Board of Trustees comprises the Officers and up to six additional trustees
Officers
John Ward (Chair)
Former Director of Strategy and Planning at the New Forest National Park Authority; Former member New Forest Committee; Trustee St Barbe Museum; Board member New Forest Villages Housing Association.
Gale Gould (Vice Chair)
Practising commoner, historian and lecturer, currently studying for doctorate degree at the University of Southampton. Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Patron of the Chalke Valley History Festival.
Keith Braithwaite (Hon. Secretary)
Administration and customer services; Former company website manager
Brandy Gill (Hon. Treasurer)
J.P. (West Hampshire bench); Member of the Police Advisory Group for the New Forest.
Trustees
Dionis Macnair
Verderer; Practising Commoner; Former Hon. Sec.(34 years) and present Council member, New Forest Pony and Cattle Breeding Society; Member Pony Publicity Group; New Forest representative British Horse Society Breeds Committee.
Peter Roberts
Former chairman, New Forest Association; Former Verderer; Former President Hampshire Field Club; Author and editor of books about the New Forest.
Brian Tarnoff (Chair Habitat and Landscape Committee)
Mobile cinema projectionist; Writer.
William Ziegler
Former chairman New Forest Association; Chairman New Forest Trust.
Council
Council Comprises the Board of Trustees and up to fifteen additional members Council brings together on a regular basis individual members of the Association with a wide breadth of knowledge of the New Forest, engagement with other New Forest organisations or professional skills valuable to the work of the Association, and who are volunteers, serving on Committees or otherwise actively engaged in roles supporting the Association. They represent many viewpoints about the New Forest but are united in their commitment to the Association.
Council meetings are a forum in which to discuss with and advise the Board of Trustees on any New Forest issues pertinent to the Objects of the Association that its members wish to raise.
Bernie Austin
Retired chartered surveyor and architectural consultant; Former Chairman Lyndhurst Parish Council; Founder of Lyndhurst Junior Football Club.
Graham Baker (Chair Planning and Transport Committee)
Former Chairman of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, New Forest District Group.
Maureen Bromley-Smith
Former education business partnership manager.
Clive Chatters
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust officer; Former Chairman National Park Authority; Naturalist and author.
Michael Chilcott
Former Hon. Secretary New Forest Association; Former Chairman Campaign to Protect Rural England, New Forest District Group; Former District and Parish councillor.
Jonathan Cox
Freelance ecologist and nature conservation adviser; Author of several English Nature and other nature conservation publications.
Roly Errington
Member New Forest Consultative Panel; Trustee New Forest Ninth Centenary Trust; Chairman National Park Authority Western Escarpment Conservation Area Steering Group; Member New Forest National Trust Advisory Board; Vice Chairman Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley Parish Council; Member Hampshire County Council liaison committees for Cemex and Tarmac mineral operations in the Avon Valley.
Eve Gillmon
Hale Parish Councillor; J.P.
Dr Keith Howe
Exeter University Agricultural economist; Senior Research Fellow Exeter University; Honorary Research Fellow Royal Veterinary College, London University; Trustee Exmoor Society.
David Humbert
Member New Forest Show Committee.
Graham Long
Natural history generalist, particularly focusing on molluscs; Trained as a chartered surveyor; Former Congregational Church minister; Guardian Country Diary contributor.
Bob Morris (Education Working Group)
Former member New Forest National Park Authority
Leo Randall
Retired lecturer; Member New Forest National Park Authority and former planning committee chairman.
Richard Reeves
Local historian; Member New Forest Consultative Panel; Committee member, New Forest History and Archaeology Group.
Neil Sanderson
Freelance ecologist and leading lichenologist.
Jenni Tubbs
Member Habitats and Landscape Committee; New Forest Association representative on Forestry Commission Open Forest Advisory Committee; New Forest Friends of the Earth representative; Member New Forest Consultative Panel; Member Conservation Committee, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust; Former officer Nature Conservancy Council.