President, Vice Presidents, Trustees

President

We thank Lord Egremont for his many years of service and support as President of CPRE Sussex.  We’ll be seeking a new President in due course.

Vice President

We express our huge thanks and appreciation to Rodney Chambers who has stepped down as Vice President after many years service to CPRE Sussex.

Rodney served as Chair of the Charity and guided the Branch through a period of considerable change. He represented his local Chichester District Group on planning matters and worked with the Chichester Society to protect the urban environment of Chichester.

We are glad of Rodney’s continued support as a member and wish him well.

Vice President

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Margaret Moore. As a Vice President of CPRE Sussex until her retirement from the post last year, Margaret was a staunch supporter of CPRE Sussex. We greatly appreciated her huge contribution over many years and remember her with affection. We offer our condolences to her family and friends.

Penny Hudd  Trustee

Penny studied Design at the Hornsey College of Art in London and Landscape Architecture at Harvard in the USA where she went on to practice as a designer for ten years, working for The Architects Collaborative, and Benjamin Thompson & Associates.

Moving to Hong Kong she worked with architects GMW and for the Hong Kong Government. On her return to the UK she maintained her design practice while moving into design education, initially as a senior lecturer at Norwich School of Art. This was followed by a move to Glasgow School of Art where she was Head of the Graphic Design Department and then to London to take on the role of Head of the School of Design at Kingston University.

She has been an academic advisor and external examiner in the UK, at the Royal College of Art, Central St Martins, the University of Central Lancashire, University of the Arts, the University of Brighton and in Europe for the Austrian Education Department. She was also for several years a Governor of City College, now Brighton Metropolitan College.

Penny has been an active member and Trustee of CPRE Sussex since 2010.

David Johnson  Trustee

David attended school in the City of London but played out in suburban woods and commons saved, in the c19th, for the public by the Corporation of London. As a toddler he fell in love with horses and farms, starting riding ponies at seven years at a small concern with a local horse drawn milk float round. After university David researched mental health issues, worked with vulnerable young people and developed welfare and social services across London and eventually equal opportunities across the UK and abroad.

Latterly as a visiting academic, he contributed to international MBA programmes in China, Japan, Argentina, Morocco and Europe and led a millennium health service leadership programme in Ireland. Always hankering to live in the country David left Wimbledon for rural East Sussex some 25 years ago to keep horses, eventually moving to the Sussex coast at Shoreham. With his partner, 14 years ago he set up the flourishing Shoreham Wordfest literary festival. He volunteers at the Ropetackle Arts Centre, chairs the local community choir, Shoreham Singers by Sea, sits on his local resident’s group and enjoy the Downs, by foot, bike and the occasional horse.

David has now served as CPRE’s Chair and Vice Chair for a dozen years and is now serving as a Trustee and volunteer where he hopes to help shape the future of a Unitary Sussex, as a biodiverse and beautiful environment and protected countryside, supported by an appropriate economy benefiting all.

Josh Lelliott  Trustee and Treasurer

Josh is an experienced finance professional and chartered accountant, living in Balcombe, West Sussex. He is passionate about rural affairs and the British countryside and, as Treasurer, brings his skills and experience to help to make a positive difference to Sussex.

Having grown up in Sussex, Josh holds a profound appreciation for its diverse natural beauty, from the South Downs and High Weald to the vibrant coastlines, including Chichester Harbour. He believes we have a duty to protect these wonderful places and the countryside way of life.

Professionally, Josh works in corporate finance where he advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and fundraisings across a range of sectors. He is also treasurer and trustee for two community owned biodynamic farms near Forest Row.

Prof Dan Osborn  Trustee and Vice Chair

Dan is Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at UCL. He has worked with businesses, charities, national and local government in the UK and with the European Commission and various Parliamentary groups on a range of legislative and best practice issues. Much of this work has involved protecting the health and wellbeing people and the environment and ensuring that resources, such as water, are used more sustainably. Partnership working to co-produce knowledge and use it is an underlying theme of much of this work. Dan is founding Editor-in-Chief of UCL Open: Environment a multi-disciplinary academic journal publishing across many aspects of the open environment and that on which we live. His own research interests concern how people’s wellbeing relates to their environment and its natural resources.

Sally Pavey  Trustee

Sally Pavey is a resident of the parish of Warnham, West Sussex, having moved there with her family 20 years ago.  Sally has over 30 years experience of international marketing, PR, event management and is currently employed as a consultant.

As a volunteer she has organised many charitable events such as the Cancer Research Pink Gift Fair and Wellbeing event.  She also writes for the local media, is an elected councillor for Warnham Parish Council sitting on HALC, WSALC and the HDC climate change group, and is deputy chair of Horsham Conservative Party.

Sally is chair of CAGNE, Communities Against Gatwick Noise and Emissions, founded in February 2014 which is now the umbrella aviation community and environment group for Sussex, Surrey and Kent.  CAGNE assists residents with the ramifications of Gatwick Airport operations and environmental concerns worldwide relating to aviation.  It strongly opposes the rebuilding of the emergency runway as a second runway and unsustainable growth of a volatile and polluting airport. CAGNE is supported by parish councils via the CAGNE Aviation Town and Parish Council Forum, NGOs and CPRE branches.

For leisure Sally loves her countryside home, gardening, walking her dogs and horse riding.

Dr Roger F Smith  Trustee

FRGS is a Sussex-born activist who has campaigned since 1996 against development that is inappropriate and destructive of communities, countryside and the natural environment.

Educated Jesus Oxford (DPhil, and PGCE) and the University of Southampton; a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; variously a professional archaeologist, Royal Air Force Officer, arctic explorer and expedition leader and planner, farm worker, conservation officer, company secretary, and Trustee CPRE Sussex and Protect Sussex Group chair.

He is very concerned for the future of our precious countryside and landscapes.

Corinne Stuart  Trustee and Chair

Corinne brings over 15 years’ experience working with membership organisations, including the Royal Institution and Countryside Alliance. She’s a natural connector, passionate about engaging people and building lasting support for causes she believes in.  

She now leads a national professional body, where she’s responsible for its overall direction and financial health.

Born in Sussex and raised in Kent, Corinne returned to East Sussex in 2019. Her family has deep roots in the Heathfield farming community, and her lifelong love of the countryside is shaped by early memories of rich wildlife and open landscapes — many of which are now under threat.

As Chair of CPRE Sussex, Corinne is dedicated to growing support across the county and helping protect the countryside so it can be enjoyed by future generations.

Dr Jill Sutcliffe  Trustee

Jill was born in London within reach of nine Ancient Woodlands though it was some time before she understood this! She had Scottish and Cornish grandparents so became aware early on of the experiences of the more distant parts of the UK. She attended the Henrietta Barnett School in north London, a voluntary-aided state grammar school for girls founded in 1911 by the social reformer, community planner and pioneer of early female education, Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett.

Her first degree was in Combined Sciences as the Environment hadn’t yet reached the curriculum! Her first job marked out the course she would follow working with student environment groups and supporting their work with newsletters, conferences and liaison. She took part in the first botanical survey of Cornwall evaluating the importance of the sites, setting up the junior branch of the Wildlife Trust and coordinating the local branches.

At last she had both the time and the Environment courses she could apply for – namely the masters and PhD in Environmental Technology at Imperial College. That was followed by working to coordinate the botanical work for 10 years of English Nature now named Natural England.

Alongside her working life she has taken part in a variety of voluntary groups – opening a Women’s Refuge, chairing the Manhood Peninsula FOE group, co-founding the Manhood Wildlife and Heritage Group, encouraging local people to take an active interest in their local environment and chairing KKWG, the Keep Kirdford and Wisborough Green group – opposing an application for “fracking” and becoming the first village in the UK to succeed in getting the application turned down. She co-chairs the Office for Nuclear Regulation, ONRNGO Forum.

Katherine Sykes  Trustee

Katherine grew up on a dairy farm on the Surrey/Sussex border and has a deep and abiding love of cows, fields and trees. Having spent most of her working life in London, she returned to Sussex a few years ago and is now happily living in the South Downs, which she views as the green lungs of the south of England. Katherine is a keen walker, avid gardener and strongly believes in preserving our nation’s beautiful countryside, rivers and seas for all to enjoy.

Professionally, she specialises in strategic and crisis communications, PR, public affairs, policy and campaigns and has spent over 20 years delivering board and senior level counsel to FTSE 100 companies, trade associations, membership organisations and charities, particularly in the health and food sectors. She was previously a City lawyer specialising in product litigation, regulation and public policy. She is an experienced director, non-executive director and trustee.

Prof Clive Webb  Trustee

Clive is by some measures a newcomer to Sussex, having only lived in the county for 25 years. He is Professor of American History at the University of Sussex and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial. He has also written for The Guardian, New York Times and other newspapers as well as appearing on numerous television and radio programmes.

Clive regularly roams the Sussex coast and countryside, experiences that have informed his understanding and appreciation of the county’s heritage. He has translated this into numerous public talks, local radio broadcasts and written contributions for the likes of Sussex Life and Sussex Living. He is currently researching a new history of Sussex based on artefacts from the collections of every museum in the county.