The Carbon Literacy Trust
The Trust
Registered Charity Number: 1156722
The Carbon Literacy Project has always been a massive collaborative project from its conception.
It involves people and organisations from all sectors and walks of life working together and contributing time, materials and funding to advance understanding and action on climate change.
In creating and establishing The Project, Cooler Projects (itself a not-for-profit, Community Interest Company) made it clear that The Carbon Literacy Project materials and the intellectual property it created would not be retained by Cooler.
Instead this work was to be held in trust for the benefit of the people of Manchester and beyond. As soon as The Project was sufficiently established, an independent charitable trust would be founded to take on responsibility for The Project.
The Carbon Literacy Trust was formed in September 2013 and incorporated and recognised by the Charity Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in March 2014.
Its charitable aim is “to advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment” through the dissemination of Carbon Literacy.
The Trust is fortunate in having a board of trustees reflecting a huge depth of knowledge and understanding of climate change and its environmental and economic impacts, of work for the public good and individually, a depth of sectoral reputation and expertise which they each bring to bear in support of The Project.
Trustees
For any queries regarding The CL Trust please contact via email – chair@carbonliteracy.com
Dr. Ali Abbas, Chair
An award-winning environmental campaigner, a senior business analyst with a world-class financial software house, and Chair of the Manchester: A Certain Future CO2 Monitoring Group (part of the steering group overseeing Manchester’s climate change plan), Ali is hugely experienced and respected, putting The CL Trust in safe hands.
Twitter: @ali_mfoe
Dr. Ruth Wood
Ruth is a Research Fellow at the international Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research – a worldwide centre of expertise in climate change science and a Lecturer in Environment and Climate Change at the University of Manchester. Describing herself as a “Carbon counter, energy modeller, sustainable lifestyles enthusiast” she is already an experienced charity trustee. At the Tyndall Centre, she has been involved in a number of projects including assessing the greenhouse gas impacts of shale gas extraction, aviation and food consumption, city-scale responses to climate change and assessing the resilience of infrastructure to climate impacts.
Twitter: @FRuthWood
Robin Lawler
Chief Executive of Northwards Housing, Chair of Plus Dane Cheshire, and immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Housing, Robin has a depth and breadth of expertise in social housing. Manchester-based Northwards manages north Manchester’s council-homes, was recently awarded “Excellent” on the Social Housing Equality Framework, re-awarded the Customer Service Excellence award, and is established within the Sunday Times Top 100 places to work in the public sector. Individually Robin is a keen cyclist, but professionally, amongst other accolades, Northwards was awarded a SHIFT (Sustainable Homes Index For Tomorrow) Silver award in September 2013 for its energy-saving work.
Twitter: @robin_lawler
Neil Bradley
Neil is a solicitor for Shoosmiths LLP in Manchester specialising in Real Estate, working in all aspects of commercial property transactions, including landlord and tenant, development, lending and the property aspects of restructuring and insolvency work. Having training initially as a civil engineer, his degree dissertation considered whether “developing in an environmentally sustainable manner offered a competitive advantage” the answer at the time was “not really”. How times have changed! Neil considers the Trust’s work disseminating Carbon Literacy essential to making sustainability the norm. He is a member of Poynton Round Table contributing to group events and supporting their charity fundraising throughout the year.