Sustainable St Albans is charity no. 1173118. We have a trustee group which meets monthly, volunteers who work with us on projects, events, administration and communications and an annual AGM. We are a member of the UK and international Transition Network.
Our governance
Our charitable objectives are:
1) to promote the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment, acting primarily within the City and District of St Albans, by promoting, for the benefit of the public, the sustainable use of resources; and
2) to advance the education of the public in the sustainable use of resources and the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment, acting primarily within the City and District of St Albans.
Our policies
To ensure best governance and transparency, we have policies on the following:
- Safeguarding Policy
- Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy
- Health & Safety Policy
- Data Protection Policy
- Project Approval and Spending Policies
- Complaints Policy
- Environmental Policy
- Reserves Policy
- Ethical Partnerships Policy
- Conflict of Interest Policy
Our trustees
These are our current trustees. You can email any of them using firstnameDOTsecondnameATsustainablestalbans.org, or email the whole group at TrusteesATsustainablestalbans.org. We are always interested in new people joining the trustee group. If you’d like to get involved or find out more, please get in touch.
Jill Watson, Chair of Trustees
Jill has lived in St Albans since 2004 and joined Sustainable St Albans as a volunteer in 2018. She is Chair of the Trustee Group and link trustee for the SustFest Project team.
Jill especially enjoys being part of the projects that encourage bringing the community together to share our sustainability experiences and goals. Jill delights in collaborating with the District’s local community groups and their great ideas and great amounts of energy through SustFest, the Sustainability Markets and our ongoing events.
She has a Biotechnology and Environmental Conservation background and owns a small business too.
Lesley Flowers
Lesley has been a trustee since 2013, and is the driver behind the successful Our Planet Our Future initiative, which began putting on specialist talks and events in Harpenden in 2018, and the Harpenden Sustainability Markets, which has has been running successfully in Harpenden since 2021, in partnership with Harpenden Town Council.
Lesley spent many years work establishing Playing Out St Albans District, which has now been running successfully since 2019 in conjunction with St Albans City and District Council . Lesley together with Nicola Wyeth has also been running the local Our Street Party initiative since 2014; they have recently supported up to 100 streets a year to hold community street parties.
Lesley also co-ordinates the Thermal Imaging Camera project across the district, and co-ordinated Open Food Gardens for several years.
Lesley has lived in Harpenden with her family for over 20 years.
Duncan Gibbons
Duncan is a qualified solicitor who has spent most of his career as a finance lawyer in the City, working both in private practice and in-house. He now works as a consultant. He started his career as a logistics officer in the British Army.
Duncan is a Trustee on a local Multi-Academy Trust, is Company Secretary for The Green House (a project to establish a community eco-hub for the St Albans district), and volunteers at Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust. He became a trustee of Sustainable St Albans in 2023 and has lived in St Albans with his family for over 25 years.
Duncan is link trustee for the Schools Group.
Ollie Eggleton
Appointed 2024
Dr Sikiru Ismail
Appointed 2024
Our volunteers
These are the people who make things happen – meet a few of our wonderful volunteers here…
Judith Leary-Joyce – Thermal Imaging Camera Volunteer
Judith has been concerned about the environment since the early 1970′ s and has always strived to do all she can to promote sustainable behavioural change, especially in cleaning up her own act. Having learned a lot along the way Judith is now a self taught eco-renovator and is committed to helping others with their journey towards low energy living. Judith is also a St Albans Thermal Imaging Camera Volunteer.
Martin Malcolm-Brown – member of the Harpenden Sustainability Market and Our Planet Our Future organising groups
Martin Malcolm-Brown is a well known face at Sustainable St Albans events. He generously volunteers his time at the Harpenden Sustainability Markets, Our Planet Our Future talks and debates. By day, Martin can be found working as a salesperson and retail supervisor.
Philip Nalpanis – Newsletter Editor and Membership Secretary
Philip has had an interest in environmental issues since his mid-teens; having done postgraduate research in meteorology he has some understanding of the physics behind climate change and hence has taken a particular interest in this. In the last few years he has been involved with Sustainable St Albans, editing their monthly newsletter and maintaining its membership register. Through this and his involvement with A Rocha, a Christian conservation and environmental charity, he has gained a wider appreciation of current environmental challenges. As a member of St Paul’s church, St Albans, he is encouraging the church and its members to live more sustainably.
Our events and project teams
Our work wouldn’t happen without enthusiastic, energetic and willing volunteers, sharing their time, interests and skills with the community to help us all move towards a more sustainable district. New friendships and experiences abound: why don’t you get in touch to see how you can get involved too?
Our most recent AGM’s
Open this link for most recent Annual General Meetings (AGM’s) notes.