The WREN Team

Board Members 

Richard Alexander (Treasurer) is a Chartered Certified Accountant, with a practice in Wadebridge.  He is currently updating his own business plan and aiming to become a sustainable business by 2015, including solar panels on the roof, reducing paper use and nominating a sustainability champion within the business to really try and help us live and work within our environmental limits.

David Atfield (Academic and Student Liaison) recently retired as a lecturer in organisational behaviour and strategy at Cornwall College. He is particularly interested in helping make the internships and research by students from Exeter University and Cornwall College a reality and in ensuring WREN's own research is informed by and conforms with best practice.

Duncan Burwood is a GP with a long-standing interest in environmental issues. With oil prices rising wants to make renewable energy widely available as soon as possible.

Jerry Clark (Technical Director), has a degree in Environmental Science, and is a life-long environmentalist with technical expertise in renewable energy and green building.

Tony Faragher (Company Secretary) has a long-standing interest in environmental issues.  Professionally he worked as a manager and service developer with economically and socially excluded people (offenders, substance misuse, mental health) and so is especially   interested in the social justice aspects of energy policy.

Elizabeth-Jane Frankel (Art/Events Director) is an artist whose professional practice encompasses environmental and public site specific projects, including running public consultation programmes for large projects.  She runs a holding raising rare breed livestock.

Stephen Frankel (Chair) raises rare-breed livestock. The farm is powered from renewable sources and he seeks to bring those benefits to the wider Wadebridge population. He has extensive experience of international and UK health and development programmes, and an academic background in epidemiology, anthropology and public health.

Adrian Jones (Editor of the WREN Newsletter) has been interested in environmental issues for a long time.  He has been involved in running a number of small businesses and has skills in IT and graphic design.  He worked in New York to help families after the World Trade Center disaster.

Peter McGregor (Development Director) is an academic with extensive research experience in pure and applied zoology. He has taken a longstanding interest in the wider issues of renewable energy and development, and became practically involved through grant applications for PV systems at Cornwall College Newquay and Wadebridge Community Primary School; both are installed and performing well.

Caroline New is a website and graphic designer who lives and works in Wadebridge.  Caroline also carries out art based workshops in local primary schools and is particularly interested in working with local schools to get the WREN message across. Her background includes a degree in Environmental Science.

Amanda Pennington (School Coordinator) was voted onto Wadebridge Town Council in August 2011, and is amum to three young children. She has volunteered in the Energy Shop for some time, and is interested in the positive benefits that renewable energy can bring to the local community. She hopes that one day all energy will be clean energy.

Harry Wild (Campaigns Director) works for the Eden Project, is a Town Councillor and a member of the Wadebridge Chamber of Commerce. She has an Honours Degree in creative writing and business, and was a founder member of Wadebridge School Eco Group. 

Co-opted professional advisors (able to vote as full Board members) 

Jake Burnyeat is a commercial advisor to WREN. He has been a renewable energy professional for 7 years. His experience includes the development of wind projects in he UK and mainland Europe; helping large international corporations to develop and implement their renewable energy strategy; and the start-up and management of renewable energy businesses.  He is the founding director of Green Trust, a Cornwall based community wind power company that is working with WREN on large-scale wind. He is also a director of Communities for Renewables - an initiative being set up by Regen SW and Green Trust to provide support and investment for community energy projects across the South West.

Nigel Flanagan (Legal advisor) qualified as a solicitor in 1998 specializing in Property law.  He has experience in start-up ventures, local authority working practices and working in dynamic business environments.  He acts for commercial clients involved in renewable energy projects.

Project and support roles

Leonie McGregor (WREN Administrator) read Law at the University of Nottingham, practiced as a solicitor in Reading, and has since then held a variety of administrative and related posts.  

Debbie Morton (WREN Intern) has a BSc in Animal Biology from the University of Stirling, is currently studying for an MSc in Applied Carbon Management at the University of Glasgow, and is primarily responsible for maximising the uptake of energy efficiency measures within the household and business communities.