Annette Heslop MBE (Secretary)
Accounting Technician, with many years experience and specialising in computerised accounts. Annette is also a full time Energy4All employee and director. She runs the (growing) Energy4All office in Barrow and is responsible for maintaining the members' register, filing the annual return and producing the year end accounts ready for audit. Annette also deals with visitors to the Harlock Hill and Haverigg II wind farms.
Richard Scott (Chairman)
Plant ecologist formerly with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Merlewood Research Station, with extensive experience in coastal and upland habitats in the UK. In the 1980s he was part of a team carrying out research for ETSU on the yield and distribution of biomass from vegetation as an energy crop. Richard is a founder member of Baywind and also the Chairman of the Baywind Energy Conservation Trust.
John Newbury
I am a Chemical Engineer, living in Cumbria. I have had a lifelong interest in renewable and alternative energy. When Baywind started I was living in the Midlands, I invested and followed from a distance. When I moved to Cumbria in 1998 I became more involved with Baywind, attending some AGM’s. I have been a member nominated trustee of a pension fund so in addition to my engineering background I also bring experience of working on a board for the interests of members and maintaining good governance. In July 2015 I was co-opted onto the board and formally elected at the 2016 AGM.
Grant Jones
A Baywind shareholder since its inception in 1998 & being ‘a green-cooperative believer’, I hold shares in similar co-operatives. Previously, I was a director of Baywind and a trustee of Baywind Community Energy Trust, and retired to allow others to come in at board/trustee level. However I kept in contact with Baywind and its developments, and believed it was a good time to come back. Although I now live in London, I am a Barrovian and regularly return to the north. I am: a practising ‘chartered accountant and solicitor’; a partner in an accountancy firm & hold in-house counsel/director positions in various companies; & a visiting Nottingham University ‘professorship of laws’. My accountancy, legal and director skills, together with my prior experience at Baywind board level, should be of value to the Baywind board and members.
Stephen Lawler
I am a founding member, shareholder and director of Baywind. Although I had to resign from the Board in 1999 because of domestic and work commitments, I am delighted to have been re-elected as a director at the 2021 AGM. I bring a commitment to the theory and practice of renewable energy projects in both my personal and volunteering life. I am a former civil engineer, planning officer and property developer. I live in the Cartmel Valley and was a parish councillor for 10 years. I remain a local primary school governor after 25 years’ service.
Michael Pickthall
Michael is a Senior Project Manager and Trustee, currently serving on a Multi-academy Trust board in Blackpool and previously on the board of Lancaster’s Gregson Community Centre. Michael is also a former professional engineer and has previously served on the Baywind Board in the early 2000s. He has successfully performed his role as a senior manager on 3 continents, as a key influencer and has managed projects up to 40MM GBP. Michael is a keen walker and cyclist.
Ian Byrne
Ian Byrne has been an investing member of the Baywind Co-operative since its inception, and has gone on to join several other group co-ops. Professionally, Ian is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) who runs a small consultancy focusing on energy and carbon accounting and management. Ian’s clients are typically small companies or public sector bodies such as town councils, looking to develop affordable net zero transition plans. Ian has also worked on the development of International Standards and was convenor for ISO 50047 on Energy Savings calculations for Organizations, and ISO 14068-1 on Carbon Neutrality. He is also working on a project in Ghana to bring clean eCooking to off-grid communities using solar microgrids. Before starting his own business, Ian helped set up, then worked for over 25 years, for a small charity promoting energy efficiency. When not working, Ian likes orienteering, studying maps, listening to obscure classical music and travelling hopefully.
