Trustee
Steve is a natural resource manager and explorer with a fascination for the natural world. He has travelled and worked all over the world including longer periods living in Alaska and Tanzania. Brought up exploring the rivers and marshes of the Norfolk Broads in England, Steve moved to Plymouth to do a degree where he spent much of his time exploring the moors and the sea, including qualifying as a diver. Since then he has been based mainly in North Wales (where he also did an MSc in Forestry) with shorter periods working in Scotland, the north of England and a number of years overseas.
His work has always focused on people and the natural world and he has worked in practical conservation and contracting, nature reserve warden, forester, lecturer (including running an MSc module for Oxford Uni for a number of years and supporting a degree course development in Stellenbosch), trainer and development worker (overseas).
Over the last 20 years he has been running the company he established (www.r4c.org.uk) specialising in community and stakeholder engagement. Within the company as well as his obvious subject area, Steve tends to lead on major organisational reviews, innovative participatory engagement and often works as a critical friend to senior personnel.
More recently Steve has been spending time running a smallholding and eco-venue; founding and developing a member owned national co-operative for wilder camping in the UK (www.nearlywildcamping.org) ; and most recently developing Nearly Wild Exploration (www.nearlywild.org) , an ethical company specialising in helping people re-connect with nature.
In his spare time Steve does many outdoor pursuits (including mountain biking, climbing, canoeing, caving, surfing, sailing, and many others) in search of natural world experiences and is a keen artist (specialising in his own style of pen and ink watercolour). For Steve outdoor pursuits are a means of travel, as well as providing some fun, adrenalin and time out to clear the head!