Christopher recently founded BASE ‘08.  The Business and Sustainable Environments conference is set to become a landmark event with its business-to-business approach centred on linking profit with sustainability. In addition, as a non-executive director of Green Row PR, Christopher is focused on helping businesses grow.

The former journalist is also a board member of The Brighter Group and The Argyll Consultancies PLC. Christopher’s eco ethos, however starts at home in East Sussex where he runs a sustainable farm that has successfully become a local showcase. His family run an online ethical shop. This all complements his pro bono work with Plantlife International, the only charity that is exclusively dedicated to the conservation of wild plants and fungi.

As Head of London College of Fashion, Frances prioritises sustainability projects. She is Chair of the Conference for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD) with a special focus on social inclusion and employability.

Recent events at the college include a series of events entitled ‘Is Green the New Black?’ encouraging people to be both fashionable and eco-conscious. Clothes swaps, discussions and wardrobe audits were on the creative menu.  In addition to Green Rewards, Frances advises stakeholders such as the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

Frances received an OBE this year for her contribution to the fashion and arts industries and her continued commitment to expanding and improving educational opportunities within those industries.

Dave won Building magazine’s inaugural Sustainability Leadership Award in 2005 for his work introducing green principles into the worlds of construction and property. Since launching that year as The Carbon Coach, he has coached several high profile individuals to reduce their lifestyle carbon.

Dave invites accountability, and his website reveals statistics about his personal lifestyle. This includes listing car fuel efficiency, low-carbon holiday strategies, and how a radical carbon-lite refurbishment of his home slashed his gas and elec. bills to £44 total per month - for a family of 6!

Dave regularly presents and entertains, and is a former GB rower, engineer, business director, and Cambridge graduate. The social entrepreneur gave away 100’s of purple party balloons labelled simply ‘CO2’ at the I-Count/Campaign against Climate Change march in London, in Nov 2006, illustrating the unseen impact of the energy we waste in our daily lives.

Matthew was appointed as Head of Environmental Solutions in 2008 after creating Royal Mail’s responsible mail programme and introducing Carbon Neutral Door to Door in 2007. He is responsible for Royal Mail’s commercial response to the environment. Working with a wide range of stakeholders, including industry, government and customers, he is also developing programmes to help make mail more sustainable.

Matthew is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and trustee of The Living Rainforest near Newbury.

An environmental scientist, Matt works on a range of carbon management and sustainability consultancy projects. He founded the award-winning CarbonLimited programme at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) which carried out research and experimentation into policy ideas for reducing personal carbon emissions.

Matt has become a regular commentator on public engagement in climate change for a number of broadcast and print media and has worked closely with UK government on policy development. Matt also has a strong interest in built environment sustainability, with national firsts to his name for green roof and solar energy projects.

As Managing Director of Paper Round, Bill has grown the business to become the capital’s biggest office recycling company. They work with SMEs to reduce carbon footprints. What began with recycling bins now extends to recycling IT hardware, furniture, and services over 3500 London offices.

In 2006 Bill founded Carbon Smart to enable more organisations in the fight against climate change. A former Director of the London Community Recycling Network has years of experience working in the waste management industry which are now put to excellent use. He graduated from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences.

In 2007, Leona was project manager for the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act commemoration events. This gave her an understanding of the importance of promoting the Fairtrade industry and led to her setting up BestFairtrade.com.

As the managing director of BestFairtrade.com, Leona aims to raise awareness of the huge range of Fairtrade products available and also to promote smaller businesses. BestFairtrade.com is the only web-based directory for Fairtrade products.

After graduating in International Business, Leona worked in Hong Kong and India where she gained first hand experience of trading in the textile industry. Leona is also a governor of a C of E primary school in Central London.