Friday, 17 October 2025

Chaiman Tony Juniper and just three other Natural England colleagues are members of the RSPB

                                                       

Natural England chairman Tony Juniper who also runs his own consultancy

The Government has this week published a register of the additional  interests - paid and unpaid - of board members of the Natural England. As NE members, they all receive renumeration. The register reads  as follows:


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

Member - Friends of the Earth

Member - Greenpeace

Member - Royal Society for Protection of Birds

Member - Wildlife Trusts

Member - National Trust

Member – Butterfly Conservation

Environmental Ambassador - Fields in Trust (formerly the National Playing Fields Association)


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

Unremunerated interests:

Treasurer to the Board of Charitable Trustees at Buckden Recreation Ground and Village Hall Trust (voluntary role)

Investor Relations Society (professional membership)


Professor Mel Austen

Remunerated interests:

Professor of Ocean and Society, University of Plymouth

Unremunerated interests:

Director - Carew Wharf Management Company Limited

Chair - Partnership of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in North Devon

Board Member – Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Trustee (company director) and President Elect of the British Ecological Society

Royal Society of Biology

Marine Biological Association

Member - National Trust

Member - Royal National Lifeboat Institute


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)

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

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


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


Dame Caroline Spelman

Unremunerated interests:

Non Executive Director, Commonwealth Games England Board

Trustee of Church of England and Chair of Diocese Commission

Member of the Conservative Party

Trustee of British Horse Society

National Trust

Royal Society for Protection of Birds

Warwickshire Wildlife Trust


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 Protection of Birds

Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

British Association for Shooting and Conservation

SongBird Survival

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) is a Parliamentary member for Labour Party for mid and south Pembrokeshire constituency

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 Protection of Birds

National Trust 

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