To find out more:
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Elaine Hunt
Philippa Atkey
Tim Hobbs
Who Are We?
The Fordhall Community Land Initiative is made up by people who share similar interests and concerns. All are unpaid volunteers (apart from Charlotte and Hannah) who have some time, the skills, or the pure enthusiasm for the cause.
Our supporters are nationwide with a growing number from other countries including Holland and Canada. Not everyone has a specific skill to offer, but all members believe that Fordhall offers an immense value to the community and should be secured for the future. It is this conviction that drives the project forward with such momentum.
The Management Team:
The management team deal with the day to day running of the project; processing the data and share applications, organising the PR, and organising volunteers.
Charlotte Hollins as Project Director and Company Sectretary. Graduated with a 1st Class Honours Degree reading Environmental Management with Mathematics from the University of Central Lancashire in 2003. She grew up on Fordhall Farm and studied Agricultural Sustainability through the majority of her course. She has a great passion and enthusiasm for this project, she is dedicated to making this project succeed and to use it to reconnect people to the land and farming.
Hannah Saunders, Community Development Officer. Hannah has only just begun her role at Fordhall and is settling in very well. Her profile will appear here soon.
The Fordhall Community Land Initiative
Interim Committee Board:
More information on the 2007/8 board can be found by clicking here.
Chairs: Tom Oliver (Head of Rural Policy for CPRE) and Janet Milnes (business consultant).
Secretary: Charlotte Hollins - one of the founders and Leaders of the project.
Treasurer: Tim Hobbs: Princes Trust
Jack Tavernor: Land Agent
Michael Whithouse: Accountant
Philippa Atkey: representative from Market Drayton Taste of the Town Company.
John Hughes: representative from Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Bryan Hunt: retired lecturer.
Alec Nunn: retired from the contruction industry.
Wendy Davies: retired lawyer.
Graham Sedgley: recruitment specialist.
Ben Hollins: representing the tenant farmer.
Helen Howes: Forest School teacher and coordinator.
Chris Lunt: Retired businessman.
Associated Organisations
Community Farm Land Trust Project have assisted greatly on the creation of this pioneering structure. Martin large and Greg Pilley the two leaders of this project have worked with us throughout the past year on creating a structure that benefits both the farm and the wider community. www.communitylandtrust.org.uk
Shropshire Wildlife Trust as well as being on the committee board have agreed to raise a lump sum through grants towards the purchase of the land.
Leeside Wood Recycling Project in London, have advised the Hollins family over the last six years. More recently they (through Danny O'Sullivan) have supplied the wood and built our compost toilet. www.lwrp.org.uk
Find out more: What are we doing?
The administration for this project is part-funded by the European Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) of the EU, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) through the Northern Marches - England Leader + Programme.
.Arthur Hollins - Turned Fordhall over to organics after the second war, and who's passion began the Fordhall Project.
Volunteers at a Working Weekend held at the farm in Feb 05.
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Bryan Hunt
Alec Nunn
Graham Sedgley