Yesterday, I became a Trustee of the Suffolk Naturalists’ Society. I’d been co-opted to SNS Council last year to lead improvements to the way SNS recruits and supports Suffolk County Recorders (CRs). But with some Trustees coming to the ends of their terms this year, SNS Council desired to formalise my position.
I’m grateful to the SNS Chair, Joan Hardingham, for inviting me to become a Trustee, and to the membership for electing me. My work as a Trustee will continue to focus on support for CRs. I’m privileged recently to have been appointed County Lichen Recorder myself, so I know that there’s much the SNS can do to support those new in the role.
On another note — after the AGM at which I was elected a Trustee, the SNS held our Spring Members’ Evening. I was excited to be able to give a presentation on my find of the endangered lichen Anaptychia ciliaris at Holton Pits — not yet extinct in Suffolk as had been thought!
