Pamela Warhurst
Pamela Warhurst CBE | |
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![]() Pam Warhurst at Thinking Digital 2012 | |
Chair of Incredible Edible | |
Pamela Janice Warhurst CBE (born 1950) is a British community leader, activist and environment worker best known for founding the voluntary gardening initiative, Incredible Edible, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.[1] In 2009, Prince Charles visited the project in support.[2]
Warhurst is currently Chair of Incredible Edible[3] and was formerly Chair of Forestry Commission Great Britain,[4] which is the largest land management commission in the country. She is also Chair of The Incredible Aquagarden, a social enterprise demonstrating and teaching urban farming , Chair of Handmade Parade a leading community arts enterprise, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts & Manufacturing and is an Honorary Fellow of Landscape Institute and Leeds Becket University. She has an MA in Economics from Manchester University.
She previously served as a member of the Board of Natural England, where she was the lead non-executive board member working on the Countryside & Rights of Way Bill in 2000. She has been both Deputy Chair and Acting Chair of the Countryside Agency, a Labour council leader on the Calderdale Council,[5] and a board member of Yorkshire Forward. She has also chaired the National Countryside Access Forum and the Calderdale NHS Trust.[6]
In 2005, she took the Chair of Pennine Prospects, a regeneration company focusing on the South Pennine region of the United Kingdom.[7] In the New Year Honours 2005 Warhurst was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to the environment.[8][9]
Warhurst lives in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
References
- ^ "Incredible Edible Todmorden Unlimited". Incredible Edible Todmorden Unlimited. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "Incredible...it's a national breakthrough as Tod representatives meet Prince Charles". Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ "ALL REGISTERED RECORDS FOR PAMELA WARHURST". cdrex. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ "Forestry Commission Chair". Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ Brooks, Charlie (2 April 2010). "Quangos bind the countryside in red tape". The Telegraph. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ "Debretts: Pamela Warhurst". Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "Pennine Prospects-About us". Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "No. 57509". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2004. pp. 9–28.
- ^ "Pamela Warhurst". Thinking Digital. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
External links
- "Vegetables are sprouting up among the flowerbeds in Todmorden". Danish Architecture Centre Sustainable Cities.
- Phillips, Morgan (30 January 2011). "Pam Warhurst - One to watch". Becoming Green. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- "Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes". TEDSalon London Spring 2012. TED Talks. May 2012.