Speakers
The UK HECA Executive would like to thank all the speakers who supported the National Home Energy Conference 2006.
Don Lack - Day 1 Conference Chair
Welcome & Introduction from the Chair
When Don stepped down as National HECA Chair at the HECA Conference 2004, he became the first recipient of the Diana Maddock Lifetime Achievement Award, notably for his services as Chair, since 1996, when he helped form what was then the National HECA Forum.
Don Lack is now the Head of the Nottingham Office for Atkins, managing a multidiscipline team of architects and engineers creating a forward client facing expertise specifically committed to attaining sustainable developments within both new build and refurbishments.
Don is a recognised expert in the field of Energy Efficiency and, in 2004, he was made an Ambassador of Energie-Cités.
Don holds an MSc in Energy and Sustainable Development, is a Fellow of the Institute of Energy and the Institute of Plumbing. His other accolades include a UK Gas Industry Innovation Award 2004, UK Energy Manager of the Year 2002, National Energy Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award 2000 and a Whitbread Community Champion Award 2000.
In 2005, just before leaving Leicester City Council, where he worked as Head of Energy Services, Don was instrumental in winning Beacon Status for his Council in the field of Sustainable Energy. Don also holds the Queen’s Badge of Honour for distinguished Service. It’s a great pleasure for UK HECA to welcome Don back to the podium to chair the first day of this year’s Conference.
The Worshipful The Mayor of Blackpool - Councillor Allan Matthews
Welcome Address
Councillor Allan Matthews was born in Blackpool in May 1946 and educated at Waterloo Primary and Tyldesley Secondary Modern School.
He started his professional career as an apprentice welder/engineer and then became a trainee butcher with the Co-op after the engineering company folded.
He started working for British Gas (then the North Western Gas Board) in 1965 and he attended Preston College to obtain his City and Guilds in Gas Fitting.
He became a member of USDAW at the age of 15 and later joined the GMB, of which he has been a member for over 36 years.
He was elected on the Council on 8 May 1991 as a Councillor for Tyldesley Ward and has served on most of the main committees.
He is, at present, Chairman of the Community Services Policy Review Committee and he also serves on the Development Control and the Education and Cultural Services Policy Review Committees.
He became a member of Blackpool Council of Youth in the early 60s and still retains his interest in youth issues as Chairman of the Council’s Youth (and Development) Forum. He is also the Council’s representative on the Prince’s Trust, currently chairing the Blackpool and Fylde Committee.
He married Angela, who is the Mayoress for 2006-2007, at Holy Trinity Church, South Shore, 35 years ago. They have four grown up boys and three grandchildren.
Councillor Matthews’ main interests are local history and social history and in his younger days he was a keen cyclist and swimmer.
He was appointed as Deputy Mayor of Blackpool on 14 May 2001 and became Mayor of Blackpool on Monday 15 May 2006.
Paul Stowers - Government Office for the North West
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Richard Davies - Director of Marches Energy Agency
Creating the Climate for Change – Communities doing it for themselves
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Richard is a Chemical Engineering graduate of Nottingham University who took nearly 10 years designing, constructing and commissioning chemical plants in the UK and America before deciding that he would really much rather do something more positive for the planet!
He is the founding director of Marches Energy Agency (MEA) the sustainable energy and climate change charity working with communities and organisations in the West Midlands to promote appropriate renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transport and so create the climate for change. The Agency has been established for some 11 years making it the oldest such organisation in the UK.
Richard endeavours to direct the Agency to be passionate, professional, inclusive and honest; and to inspire, encourage and help others to use and produce energy more sustainably, whilst providing positive, enjoyable and rewarding work and volunteering opportunities. Something that he acknowledges is going to occupy him for a few more years yet.
More information about Marches Energy Agency and its activities can be found on the MEA website at www.mea.org.uk
Ray Morgan - Chief Executive of Woking Borough Council
Woking’s Progress in Energy Efficiency
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Ray Morgan is Chief Executive of Woking Borough Council. A member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. He has served in Local Government since 1973. In 1989 Ray joined Woking Borough Council as Director of Finance.
He took a lead role in the Council's formation of its wholly owned and joint venture, Energy and Environmental Services companies, activities which resulted in the Council achieving the Queen's Award for Enterprise in Sustainability in 2001 and Beacon Status in 2005.
Ray enjoys escaping to the sunshine at regular intervals.
Colin Green MBE - Independent Environmental Consultant
Coping with Climate Change in the Garden
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Colin is an accomplished environmentalist, broadcaster and journalist; he works as an environmental consultant and, in 1999, was awarded the MBE for services to the environment.
He is Central TV's wildlife expert and regularly contributes to radio programmes and newspapers relating to the countryside and green issues.
Colin is a keen gardener, working in harmony with nature. He has a great interest in encouraging wildlife into the garden, practicing biological control and has been involved in creating many water conservation gardens.
Simon Roberts - Chief Executive, Centre for Sustainable Energy
Beyond the ‘Wilful Individual’: an effective local authority response to the new Climate Change Programme
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Simon has been Chief Executive of the Bristol-based national charity, the Centre for Sustainable Energy since 2002, having been working in sustainable energy since 1985. This includes two previous spells with CSE and five years running Friends of the Earth's national energy campaign (1989-94). Before his latest return to CSE, he spent four years as a senior manager at Triodos Bank.
Simon is a Board Director of the South West England renewable energy agency (Regen SW) and a member of NSCA's Local Climate Policy Advisory Group. He sits as the South West representative on the DTI's new Regional Energy Group and he is a member of the Government's Renewables Advisory Board where he leads its Finance and Investment Working Group. He recently led a major project for Defra, the UK Climate Change Programme Review, examining the potential for action by regional and local authorities to curb carbon emissions.
Peter Brunt - Energy Strategy Unit, DTI
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)
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Peter Brunt - Energy Strategy Unit, Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) Peter worked in Local Government as a Best Value Policy Officer, and on Environment & Business and Transport Taxation issues in DETR and Defra before joining the Energy White Paper team in 2002. Following publication of the White Paper, Peter now has responsibility for regional delivery of energy policy as part of DTI's Energy Strategy Unit. He is also seconded part time to Defra to work on the review of the Government's Climate Change Programme.
Ian Robinson - Independent Consultant
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Debbie Critchley - Senior Executive Officer, Government Office for the North West
Partnership working on domestic energy, we are all in this together.
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Debbie Critchley is a Senior Executive Officer with Government Office North West, based in Manchester and is currently a Senior Environmental Officer, a job she has been doing for the last four years. This involves delivery on all aspects of the Sustainable Development agenda with her colleagues. She works on making GONW itself sustainable, reporting on SD delivery, the Water Quality agenda, SD education, supporting the Mersey Basin Campaign, Local Environmental Quality and more importantly for this conference, delivering the fuel poverty and domestic energy agendas in the North West. This is an area of work in which she has a passionate belief that the region can make considerable improvements to its performance on fuel poverty, domestic energy saving and the use of microgeneration renewables, through effective partnership working. She and her colleague, Paul Stowers, are working jointly with key agencies in the region to make this aspiration a reality.
David Weatherall - Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes
Your concerns: our solutions
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David Weatherall is the Partnership Co-ordinator for the Energy Saving Trust.
Baroness Maddock - Member of the House of Lords - Day 2 Conference Chair
Keynote Address
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Diana Maddock has been a member of the House of Lords since 1997. She was Housing Spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats 1997-2005, and is a member of the European Union Select Committee.
Diana’s early career was in teaching. She taught in secondary schools in Southampton and at the Extra-mural department of Stockholm University.
Diana became involved in politics in the 1970s. She was a Southampton City Councillor 1984-93. On the Council, she led the Liberal group and had particular interest in housing and energy conservation. She was the Member of Parliament for Christchurch 1993-97. During that time, she was spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats on housing, the family and women’s issues. She also successfully piloted a Private Members’ Bill through Parliament which became the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995.
From 1998-2002 Diana Maddock was Federal President of the Liberal Democrat Party.
Diana is President of the National Housing Forum, President of the Micropower Council and President of the Anglo-Swedish Society. She is a Vice-President of the National Housing Federation, the National Home Improvement Council and National Energy Action. She is also a Trustee of the National Energy Foundation, the Wessex Medical Trust and the Richard Newitt Trust.
Diana Maddock is a Non Executive Director of Utilicom Ltd.
Angela Mawle - Chief Executive, UK Public Health Association
UK Public Health Association (UKPHA)
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For 13 years Angela was a nurse and health visitor. But during this time she began to build her interest in environmental matters. Becoming an elected member on Southampton City Council, where she lives, she set up and chaired the Council's first Environmental Committee. Taking her environmental interests further, she took a degree in Environmental Sciences at Southampton University and then an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College.
She then made what some might describe as a 'career leap' - to environmental consulting, working as an Environmental Scientist, at Mott MacDonald, Consulting Engineers.
In 1990, she went back to Imperial College, this time contributing to research and teaching on environmental pollution and the organisation of finances and human resources.
Four years later, Angela took up the post of Director of the Women's Environmental Network (London) and the International Coalition for Development Action (Brussels), where she campaigned on environmental issues including waste minimisation, air pollution and sustainable development. Angela then moved back to her earlier interest - health in communities - but now added the environmental element, taking up the post of Sustainable City Manager for Bristol City Council.
In June 2003 Angela became the Chief Executive of UKPHA, a role which has enabled her to champion the vision that public health is about the environment and society in which we live. Whilst at UKPHA, Angela has developed links and projects on fuel poverty, green exercise and more recently planning and housing.
Lorraine Donaldson - NEA
National Energy Action (NEA)
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Barry Steele - Senior Technical Officer, Northern Ireland Housing Executive
2007 Conference in Northern Ireland
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