Meet the team
We are a group dedicated to political transparency.
We are worried about climate change,
and the inability of politics to grapple with it.
Caroline
I am a retired Health Visitor who moved to Witney 20 years ago having spent 34 years working & bringing up a family in Uppsala, Sweden.
My eldest son & three granddaughters are still in Sweden but my daughter, my youngest son, and their families live in the UK. I have always been involved in community issues and work as a volunteer at Cogges Farm Museum, mainly in the craft & gardening groups. I am also a member of Edible Gardens: we have two small garden beds in town where we grow mainly vegetables and fruit to demonstrate and encourage people to take up gardening.
I feel very strongly that Climate Change is the most important challenge we have to tackle as urgently as possible.
Gavin
Born in Oxford, Gavin lived abroad before returning to Witney, Oxfordshire. After studying history & international relations at university, Gavin currently works for Forest Peoples Programme, a human rights NGO based in Gloucestershire working alongside communities living in tropical forests.
We know climate change is happening and its effects are devastating to see. MPs are uninformed and fail to address the climate change crisis adequately with sloppy proposals and broad, ineffective legislation. This cannot go on.
In his spare time, Gavin plays basketball for the local Witney Wolves team and enjoys music, cooking and swimming.
Hugo
I qualified as a vet in 1969. It was a lovely way to earn a living! Later on, I met a Danish lady in Yemen. That was over 50 years ago and we’re still together. Our children are grown, and we’ve a granddaughter who is also going to be a vet. The way we’re treating the planet, though, will her granddaughter be able to do that? Climate change is frightening. Hence this site.
Veterinary work aside, my passion has been the psychology and teaching of literacy: see my website www.hugokerr.info
Win
Win Burton took a Modern Languages degree and moved to Brussels when Britain joined the EEC in 1973. She worked in the Ecumenical Centre – an office for the Churches to discuss with European Institutions the need for this entity to be something more than legislation, administration and things economic, but a Community with a human face. We tried to speak truth to power.
After a lengthy career break (marriage, 4 children of whom 2 deaf necessitating the learning of Sign Language) she returned to coordinate a multi-faith programme, “A Soul for Europe”. In 2006 she moved to Oxfordshire in retirement.