1950 - 1952 |
RAF National Service HQ Transport Command |
1952 - 1954 |
Royal Observer Corps |
1955 |
Joined Management Committee of St.Dennis War Memorial Institute and continued in various capacities until I resigned in 2019 due to ill health after 64 years’ service. This included 26 years as secretary of the Working Men’s Club, formed to financially support the War Memorial building, and 40 years as chair of the Trustees until I resigned in 2019. |
1958 - 1962 |
Committee member of St.Dennis AFC (Football Club) |
1970s |
Member of the five man St.Dennis Village Cold War Emergency Committee |
1979 |
Joined the management committee of the Newquay and District Snooker
League, and still continues as its president today. |
1980s |
Committee member of Cornwall Billiard and Snooker Association |
1980s |
Represented Cornwall at Snooker many times
Awarded Cornwall County Tie
Captained Cornwall Snooker Team. |
1990 - 2017 |
Auditor of St.Dennis Cancer Campaign Committee |
2001 |
Joined the board of ClayTAWC, St.Dennis, to become the company secretary, a position I continue to serve as today. |
2005 |
Wrote and published the book St. Dennis and the Goss Moor |
2008 - 2011 |
St.Dennis Parish Council |
2008 - 2010 |
Local Community Liaison representative with McAlpine’s for the dualling of the A30 across the Goss Moor project. |
2009 |
Wrote the book of the Brewer showman family “Nancy”. |
2009 - 2010 |
Chair of the St.Dennis Incinerator Group, (STIG) |
2010 |
Represented St.Dennis Parish Council at the public inquiry for Cornwall Council’s/SUEZ waste incinerator planning application. |
2010 - to date |
Elected chair of Cornwall Waste Forum St.Dennis Branch, which superseded the STIG campaign group, A position I continue to hold today |
2011 |
Represented CWFSDB at the hearing held in the Royal Courts of Justice of its claim against the Secretary of State’s decision to up hold the Public Inquiry inspectors decision to grant planning permission for the waste incinerator |
2011 - 2013 |
A member of the five-man Rural Issues and Opportunities (RIO) committee which obtained funding and drew up plans and managed the construction of the seven-mile Nature Trail across the Goss and Tregoss Moors |
2012 |
Represented CWFSDB at the subsequent Appeal by SUEZ, in the Royal Courts of Justice. |
2015 - 2019 |
Founder member of ethical governance group Cornwall for Change |
2020 |
Wrote and published the Booklet Our Health and Air Quality, The True Facts |
2020 |
At the start of the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, I have circulated reading material by e-mail, such as news and interesting subjects every weekday to a circulation list of over 150 friends and colleagues, I continue with this today |