foundation committee
 
Brief biographies of the founding Council members are provided in the first newsletter.
 
Dr Barry Traill, zoologist and conservation advocate
Tim Low, environmental consultant and author
Amanda Martin, fundraiser and conservation advocate
Steve Mathews, environmental consultant and conservation advocate
Paola Parigi, resource economist
Lucy Vaughan, planning and environment lawyer
Paul Baddeley, financial analyst
Kate Blood, horticulturist and weed expert
 
We deliberately decided to work as a small group in the first year, working quietly to think through a strategy and legally incorporate and set up the organisation. However, we are now legally incorporated, taking members and moving to our next stage of seeking the funding to do the work identified in our strategy.
 
The Councillors of course work voluntarily. Our intention is to obtain funding as soon as possible to establish a small professional team of people who will lead on the work required, and provide a core to assist and organise an active base of members and supporters working voluntarily.
 
One point we would especially like to emphasise. As noted above, our initial founding Councillors were self-selected to do the initial work. We deliberately aimed to get a small group with mixed skills in campaigning, fund-raising, ecology, marketing and legal matters. This helped us work quickly through the initial stage of actually setting up. However, I would stress that our constitution is democratic, and in future members will vote to determine Board membership. I hope and expect that members will be active in ensuring that ISC stays active and focussed in working to stop invasives.
 
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