Directors and steering group

Henry Astor
Steering Group

Jonty Brunyee
Steering Group

Vicky Robinson
Steering Group

Nick August
Director

Sam Sandberg
Steering Group

Paddy Hoare
Steering Group

Victoria Macnamara
Steering Group

Matthew Izod
Director & Steering Group

Tim Coates
Director & Steering Group

Andrew Bullock
Steering Group
Cluster Governance
The Cluster’s governance model is designed to help Cluster decision-making and ensure the facilitators, consultants and individual members can effectively shape the work of the Cluster.
NECFC is registered as a Community Interest Company. It has 3 non-executive directors, who are all farmers, and who take decisions collectively. It has two independent facilitators.
The Cluster’s Steering Group represents and reports to the wider membership and acts as the connector between Directors, Facilitators and Members. The Steering Group meets approximately four times a year, reviews strategic decisions, advises on operational decisions where necessary and acts as a sounding board.
​Steering Group members are nominated and endorsed by NECFC members at the AGM. Length of service by the Directors and by each member of the Steering Group is not specified. All Cluster members are encouraged to consider serving on the Steering Group for a period.
Team

Tim Field
Facilitator

Oli Newman
Catchment Sensitive Farming Advisor

Lewis Fagence
Evenlode Landscape Recovery Project Manager

Caroline Greenwood
Facilitator &
Stakeholder Engagement Lead

Rachel Murphy
Evenlode Landscape Recovery Farm Liaison


