Who we are

Ian Boyd

Ian is Director and oversees the work of the Island 2000 Group as a whole as well as having a hand in many of  the individual projects and programmes. Ian has had over 20 years experience in conservation and landscape management with organizations and  nature reserves around the country; he is still most at home grovelling in bogs.

 

Kate Wilson

Kate is our Office Manager and the Trust's Company Secretary; she has her hands full just trying to keep the rest of us organized. Kate has an Environmental Studies degree, and heads up governance and the dreaded health and safety for I2K.

 

 

Martin Gibson

Qualified as an Environmental Scientist, and with a background in sustainable transport, Martin now leads our tourism and heritage interpretation work. Foolishly Martin revealed a glimmer of technical knowledge, so now has the delight of managing our IT systems.

 

 

Hannah Birks

Hannah is our Arts Project Manager, developing new projects, commissioning new artworks, supporting artists and generally being creative. She has a BA Hons Fine Art and an MA in Arts Management and previously worked for IWC Arts Unit. Hannah likes learning to play the trumpet slowly and loudly and, when not at I2k, works part time with a group of public artists and makes rather beautiful jewellery too.

 

 

Daniel Roberts

Inventor and plumber turned Poetry Project Manager, organizing our work on public and community poetry, with particular links to Island buses! Dan has worked on all manner of other projects for Island 2000 as well, from the huge seafront Xylophone at Shanklin to the Island 2000 research boat 'The Purple Kite'.

 

 

Paul Creer

As Contracts Manager Paul handles the majority of our environmental consultancy work work. Paul is an Island naturalist of long standing with  particular expertise in badgers.

 

 

Jill Taylor

Jill puts her administrative skills to work in the Education and Community team, keeping on eye on the budget and assisting with the many projects being developed. .

 

Sam Buck

Sam runs our busy Gift to Nature project, working with tourism businesses to give visitors the opportunity to give something back to the environment. In the little time this leaves her she is studying hard for an MSc in Integrated Environmental studies.

 

Rowan Adams

Rowan Adams is our Land Care project manager. She is a botany graduate (and has a Diploma in Landscape Architecture and an MSc in Environmental Forestry) with 25 years of experience as a gardener, parks officer, landscape architect and tree officer. She's particularly interested in agroforestry, forest gardens, and permaculture. In her spare time she tries to fit even more fruit, nuts and other edible and useful plants into her garden. And don't get her started on why trees and soil organic matter will save the planet...

 

Suzie Mundell

Suzie is part of the Education and Community Team and manages the Newport Rivers Project, as well as getting involved with some of the messier creative projects in schools.  She is also quite fond of the odd minibeast safari.

 

Kevin McNamara

Kevin has been working as a Project Manager at Island 2000 since September 2005. He is taller and has less hair than his picture suggests. Interests include crystals and lurcher racing.

 

Barry Townsend

Barry has been with Island 2000 from the very start as treasurer and all-round steady hand on the financial tiller. His interests are golf, Portugal, golf and golf.

 

Sean Ridler

Sean runs our conservation and wildlife programme. He has been a specialist ecological adviser to the Trust for a while before we installed him on the inside. He is a rather good musician and paints too.

 

 

Jo Johnson

Jo is the other half of our arts team working with Hannah to create and manage our public art projects, commissions and events. Jo was exhibitions curator (and a lot more besides) at the Quay Arts Centre before we poached her. She is an ace desk-top publisher and has beautiful pixie twins, Pip and Rosie.

 

Danny Giblin

Danny works in the education and community section of the Trust where he runs our Growing Places curriculum garden . His technical expertise (he is also Head of Design Technology at Ryde High School) are also invaluable in the making and shaping of our wild ideas. Danny is a famous dog-lover, theatre set-and-scenery builder and accomplished wood-turner; truly Renaissance Man himself.

 

Simon DeSmet

Simon is with us on a graduate placement scheme from Plymouth University but we don't really want him to go back. He is managing to take on a huge number of projects and is proving quite invaluable. His main interests at the moment are persisting with the worst motorbike in the world and planning the reintroduction of the European Beaver to the Island.

 

Tracy Underwood

Tracy began as a volunteer but quickly demonstrated powers of organization and competence that rather scared us and so we thought we'd better employ her. She now manages and coordinates the work of Arc, our environmental consulting arm.

Jonathan Ward

Jonathan runs his own very successful publishing company making Space as well as lecturing on fine print and book-making at various universities. He works part-time for Island 2000 bringing his creative and technical skills to bear on our own publications unit 'Brill Books'.