No stranger to NAM, Helen has been working for the RSPB for the last twelve years, most recently as Grants and Development Manager, and has been closely involved in working to secure funding for the programme.
More latterly, Helen led work to obtain European funding for RESTORE, the multi-partnered RSPB-led international project which incorporated much of NAM’s work between 2012 and 2015.
Looking forward to joining the programme in December, Helen said: “I am delighted to be able to take a more active part in NAM, a programme I have long admired for its commitment and action to promote the benefits for people and wildlife of biodiversity-led minerals restoration.
“I am particularly looking forward to getting to know stakeholders and to hear about the ways we can continue to work closely together to ensure the potential for mineral site restoration to deliver for nature and people can be met on the ground.”
Welcoming Helen to the NAM team, Nigel Symes, Head of the RSPB’s Business Advice Unit, said: “It is great to have Helen onboard after all these years of working together to source potential funding for the NAM programme.
“We look forward to being able to draw on Helen’s experience and expertise as we look to move the Nature After Minerals programme on in its forthcoming 10th anniversary year and work to acquire funding to do so. It is an exciting time for Helen to be joining us and we wish her every success in her new role.”
Nature After Minerals (NAM) is a partnership programme, led by the RSPB, with support from
The NAM programme seeks to support and facilitate the delivery of more priority habitat on mineral sites, that is appropriate, high-quality and sustainable; promote high-quality restorations and use these to show the huge benefits mineral sites have to offer to people and wildlife; and work with conservation and industry partners at a landscape scale, to achieve a strategic approach for restoration to priority habitats.
