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the Eternal Forest Trust ltd
Charity No. 1110801
Connecting the Cycles of Life
Mike
Mike Unger has edited all three main newspapers in the North West and North Wales – the Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo and the Daily Post - and won national awards including Editor of the Year, Newspaper of the Year and Campaigning Newspaper of the Year. Since 1997, he has been a management consultant specialising in communications and the media. He was the founder chairman of the North West Arts Board, a director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, and a trustee of the Manchester Science and Industry museum.
Mike has been Chief Executive of The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation since September 2002. He had previously been a Trustee.
Colin is an almost retired Consultant Philosopher and author, and functions as the Company Secretary and Works Director.
In the latter role he is determined to make the woodland accessible to those using wheelchairs. He has always loved trees, even before they became 'hugged'.
Colin
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Bella
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Arabella (Bella) is a writer and Chief Executive of The Eternal Forest Trust. She loves the natural world in all its wonderful variety; for her, the creation of Boduan Sanctuary was the realisation of a long-held dream.
She divides her time between getting mucky in the wood and working in the Charity’s office where the debris gets shed on the carpet.
Nigel has been a Trustee since December 2007. He discovered the Wood and the Charity earlier the same year when a close relative was buried at Boduan.
He has learned Welsh and uses the language daily in his work as a stockbroker. He lives with his wife Sian near Bangor where he enjoys gardening, local walks and community life. He is also a keen cyclist, photographer and hill walker. Bird watching is another of his interests.
Nigel
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Dave
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Dave grew up in the East Midlands, but his dad is Welsh and in 2005 he moved to a cottage near Pwllheli.
He works as a sports and remedial massage therapist and his interests include woodwork and leathercraft.
A member of the RSPB and The Woodland Trust, he became involved with the Eternal Forest Trust to help develop the wildlife and habitat aspects of the wood.
Richard met Bella through a local singing group, volunteered to help in the Wood, and ended up as a Trustee.
By profession he is a Safety Consultant, and is Safety Advisor to the Trust as well as to the Ffestiniog Railway, the Company that owns Land’s End and John O’Groats (and locally the Snowdon Mountain Railway), as well as helping other organisations.
He is a volunteer on the Ffestiniog Railway, and his hobbies include the study of European railway signalling, listening to opera, and drinking real ale.
Richard
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Sylvia
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Like husband Richard, Sylvia knows Bella through a local Community Choir, volunteered to help at the Wood and ended up as a Trustee.
She is a retired Primary School Teacher, and now lists her main passion as her garden.
She loves European travel, music and small glasses of hoppy beer. She recently passed her “A” Level in “Welsh as a Second Language”.
Belinda works for the trust part-time, running the office with a computer stuck to her hip!
Aside from the Trust, she is a classically trained singer who has recently started teaching singing to beginners and is co-founder of 'Viva la Musica', a professional soprano duo singing at weddings, funerals & corporate events.
She is learning to speak Welsh, loves walking in the mountains, is trained in and passionate about Aromatherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine & Shiatsu and is partial to the odd box of posh chocolates!
Belinda
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We've got our Ducks all in a row!
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Volunteers together make all things possible...
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