STEPHEN (STEVE) SHARP

Steve is a director of LGV CIC and LGV Ventures CIC and is Chair and director of LGV’s MH-2 Co-op. Steve grew up in Surrey but has lived in Llangattock with his family since 1990. His career included sales and project management roles for Thames Water, Thorn EMI and Unilever and he founded and managed successful logistics and language services businesses for 20 years. Steve also ran a vineyard in Hay-on-Wye, worked as an export communications and website consultant for UK Trade & Investment for 17 years and has a self-catering business in Llangattock. Steve has been involved with various local community organisations including Crickhowell High School PTA, Crickhowell and Abergavenny tennis clubs, his local Ffawyddog Common group and sings with The Old Recs. He joined LGV in 2011 to further his interest in renewable energy and to put something back into his local community. Steve took on responsibility for developing the organisation’s micro hydro projects in 2013 and he is delighted that, after a long period of planning and fund-raising, two schemes are operational and a further three schemes are due to be commissioned in 2017.

SIMON WALTER

Simon is one of the founding members of Llangattock Green Valleys and is currently Chair and a director of LGV CIC and LGV Ventures CIC. He is also a director of LGV MH-2. Simon grew up in Llangattock but moved to London in his late teens to find work. His career has been varied. He started out in engineering, then worked in construction, spent time with a plant hire company, moved into data logistics, then chucked it all in to become a despatch rider. He now runs his own web design and hosting company, with clients ranging from top London photographers to an international leadership development company. He moved back to Llangattock in 2004 and has a keen interest in the practical application of renewable technologies. On the home front, both he and his partner are working steadily to make their home more energy efficient and environmentally friendly, including planting up a two acre field with over 2,300 native broadleaf saplings – the start of a brand new woodland. He hopes that being a director and helping to develop a second renewable energy co-operative in Llangattock will benefit both Members and the community as a whole.

JACQUELINE (JACKIE) CHARLTON

Jackie is one of the founding members of Llangattock Green Valleys and is a director of LGV CIC, LGV Ventures and MH-2. She has lived in Llangattock since 1989 and her professional background is in equality and diversity consultancy. Jackie has served as a Non-Executive Director of a local health trust and a Non-Officer Member of a local health board. She also spent 10 years as a Welsh Assembly Member of the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority, during which time she developed a keen interest in local community-based social enterprises and community-based environmental entrepreneurship. In 2009, this led her to set up a local woodland group, which is now a thriving concern with a growing membership. Llangattock Community Woodlands is a charity and currently works with local landowners to improve and sustain small local woodlands by involving volunteers and the local community.  Jackie’s broad experience has given her strong practical and management skills, as well as a thorough understanding of how community-based renewable energy schemes can bring people together to achieve a collective goal and share the benefits. She is committed to the success of the LGV family and to ensuring that it brings benefits to the whole community.

PETER BLOOD

Peter joined LGV in 2014 and became a director of LGV CIC and LGV Ventures CIC in July 2016.  He grew up in Derbyshire; his mother came from Skenfrith. He studied physics at Leeds and then worked for Philips in Surrey for 20 years, including a period in the States, before moving to Cardiff University in 1990. He was Head of the Physics Department for a period, and after a number of
other senior roles he retired in 2011.  Peter is a member of Crickhowell Choral Society and still does some work for the university in an advisory role.  One of his retirement projects was to move to a house built to low energy standards in a location which would reduce car-miles to amenities, but finding a plot proved difficult.  Instead, a suitable property for refurbishment was found in Llangattock, the completed project achieving certification by the Passive House Institute. He has a knowledge and enthusiasm for low energy building as a means to reduce energy use and CO₂ emissions and as a director of LGV he has been investigating possible new projects LGV could undertake, working with the community, to reduce CO₂ emissions yet further.