Neil Sinden

Neil Sinden is a member of the Festival’s Steering Group.

Neil is Director of CPRE London, a branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Previously he worked at Ruskin Land in the Wyre Forest, one of England’s most important woodland nature reserves. He is a trustee of the arts and conservation charity Common Ground; has been a trustee of Civic Voice, the umbrella group for local civic societies; and, until 2015, was CPRE’s national Director of Policy and Campaigns. Neil worked at Common Ground in the 1980s on their ‘Trees, Woods and the Green Man’ programme, including launching an orchard conservation campaign and the first national Apple Day in 1990.