42 CONTEXT 176 : JUNE 2023 Welcome to new members The following members were voted in at the April 2023 IHBC trustees meeting. Welcome to you all. Supporters Atarah Adams (EM) Andrew Asquith (YO) Eleanor Bird (WM) Douglas Boa (SC) Huw Buckley (LO) Mark Butler (LO) Jane Catterall (WM) Ian Ceney (WM) Matthew Champion (EA) Thomas Corroon (RI) Guy Crabb (SE) Alice Dammery-Quigley (YO) Conall Doherty (NI) Laura Fildes (WM) Tom Forkan (SW) Sam Forsythe (NI) Joe France (EM) Lydia Franklin (LO) Michael Freude (LO) Karen Friend (WA) Brielle Gafan (NW) Robert George (SE) Daniel Gill (SW) David Griffiths (NW) Ken Hannah (LO) Victoria Hellewell (YO) David Hogg (LO) Rachel Hopkins (NW) Hetty Horton (SW) Full members Aiden Ball Albessard (SC) Damien Blower (SE) Sarah Drysdale (LO) Georgia Foy (LO) Hannah Hamilton-Rutter (EM) Daniel Metcalfe (SW) Robert Nicholson (SW) Roxanne Porter-Robinson (LO) Ben Smith (WM) Rebecca Taylor (NO) John Willans (LO) Lucy Wilson (EM) Associate members Timothy Brown (YO) David Buckley (SE) Richard Charge (NO) Anton Fraser (SW) Thomas Holt (LO) Jen Kedgley (LO) Affiliate upgrades Maeve Gorman (NI) Sonia Harvey (SW) Will Holden (NW) Kate Jordan (LO) Samuel Riley (SE) Anna Standring (EM) Samuel Styles (NW) Joanna Hull (SW) Lucy King (OV) Sacha Langdale-Smith (YO) Alice Latham (SE) Krisztina McCulloch (SC) Sophie Meakin (WM) Ruth Mitchell (SE) Michael Nelles (LO) Jim Nightingale (SC) Luke Osborne (SW) Nilgun Oz (NW) Lachlan Paige (EM) Christopher Pettit (EA) Jane Phimester (SW) Alice Porter (SC) Roberto Prieto-Labrador (SE) Joe Raper (YO) Rick Roelofs (LO) Andrew Sage (SO) Gati Shah (YO) Deborah Slade (SW) Anthony Spencer (NW) Matthew Stevens (SO) Sarah Sullivan (SE) Kerry Tickle (NW) Helen Wallbridge (SO) Gerard Walsh (NW) Adam Williams (SW) Alexandra Williams (LO) becoming more important to conservation professionals; that is, the perception that the natural and historic environments are part of a larger whole, rather than being separate entities. I have remarked on this in the IHBC’s 2023 Yearbook. At the Heritage Alliance’s Heritage Day in March, Rene Olivieri, chair of the National Trust, gave a challenging keynote address, in including some witty quotes such as ‘heritage does not stop at the ha-ha’. Referring to initiatives such as open-space networks, he urged delegates to appreciate the complementarity between the natural and historic environment. He quoted from the government’s Lawton Review of 2010, which examined how wildlife and ecological networks could be improved, and suggested that they should be ‘bigger, better and more joined up’. He said that we should be getting environmental organisations on board and should be forging new alliances with them. This theme was borne out by the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s 10 Year Strategy, also launched in March. It has four investment principles, the first two of which are ‘saving heritage’ and ‘protecting the environment’. We need to engage much more with the natural environment and those organisations whose mission is to protect it. David McDonald, chair@ihbc.org George Gilbert Scott’s Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens (Photo: David Iliff, Wikimedia)
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