Our Team
Dave Passingham
Dave was Technical Director and then Managing Director of a computer aided design software company. Since retiring he has been involved in running environmental and community projects in South Warwickshire.
Dave has had a special interest in Community Energy Companies for the last 8 years and now manages a portfolio of investments in over 30 such companies. He has a degree in Engineering Design and has recently studied Energy for a Sustainable Future.
Tony Guy
In 2016 Tony was Awarded the MBE for "services to scouting and young people in Warwickshire and Blackpool". In 2002 GMC developed the concept of an electric light commercial vehicle and with London Taxi International built three demonstrators.
Tony was then a founder Director of Modec Ltd, and as Sales Director and then Operations Director established Modec as a World Class producer of Electric Vehicles. Tony was awarded the “Green Fleet Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2005 “. In November 2017, Tony became a Director of Heart of England Community Energy (HECE) located just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. HECE is the UK’s largest community energy company by size of assets. The land on which the solar farms are built cannot be used for agricultural purposes which makes it a particularly appropriate location for solar farms.
Tony McNally
Tony is the Managing Director of Climate Change Solutions Ltd (est.2003). He jointly organised the first Midlands Environmental Business Conference NEC, from which it was established and continues to date as the MEBC (Club).
Tony was involved in organising the Pledge to the Planet and Tree of Life campaign, with John Talbot, David Middleton Jonathon Porritt, leading to and featuring in the UN Earth Summit Rio 1992. He also participated in Coventry and Warwickshire Savers as a local Agenda 21 NGO.
Rebbeca Hampson
Rebecca serves as the Head of Finance and Deputy CEO for Stratford Town Trust, bringing over thirty years of finance expertise, with more than fifteen years dedicated to the charity sector.
Rebecca trained as a chartered accountant with PwC in Birmingham and has lived and worked in Warwickshire for over twenty years. When not at work she enjoys spending time outdoors - dog walking, gardening and cycling. Family time is also important for her. Recently jam and gin making with produce from the garden have become new hobbies too.
John Stott
John is a chartered member of the Energy Institute and worked in the electricity generation industry. He is very interested in finding ways of minimising climate change and renewable energy is an important part of the solution.
He has invested in over 50 renewable energy projects and is well informed about renewable energy and in particular, the technicalities of solar power. He has helped a community solar project with technical advice and helped a local business to purchase a solar power system. For ten years, he promoted the low carbon message by writing the green column in a local electronic newspaper.
Eric Appleton
Eric works in the Innovator Support Platform at the Energy Systems Catapult, helping small and medium businesses get clean energy innovations to market. He has a keen interest in digital platforms and how these can be used to unlock the potential of local energy systems.
Eric has over 20 years’ experience in digital technology and telecommunications having previously held senior management positions BlackBerry, AT&T & BT, covering roles responsible for channel sales, software licensing, supplier and partner management, cost optimisation and governance.
Susan Juned
Originally trained as an ecologist, Susan gained her Masters and PhD at the University of Birmingham studying biodiversity.
After a research career Susan became the Government Liaison officer for a Defra funded resource management organisation, and founded the BREW Centre for Local Government that advised and supported local government with commercial waste and sustainability pilot projects.
Responsibilities included business planning, liaising with Government on policy and consultation and being an advisory member of the DEFRA Zero Waste project. She was a member of the West Midlands Regional Technical Advisory Board for waste planning.
For 24 years Susan served as a local councillor on Stratford on Avon district council and for ten years was a County Councillor. She helped to set up, then chaired, an energy efficiency charity, Act on Energy, and remain a trustee. She is also a trustee of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
For the past ten years Susan has worked on a range of initiatives including advising universities on dissemination strategies for research, working with sustainable development projects and advising businesses on resource management and renewable energy projects. Susan was a long term adviser on the Urban Futures team for a consortium of universities and have served on a number of national policy development working groups, mainly on rural and sustainability themes. She has also carried out work looking at the effectiveness of fuel poverty pilots and have been a long-time advocate of community energy and using the benefits for local communities.
Paul Fairburn
Paul’s main concerns are climate change and inequality. When he moved to Stratford-upon-Avon in 2021 he was keen to do something about both.
He immediately made his new home as energy efficient as it could reasonably be, he joined StratfordClimate Action and volunteered at the foodbank. Paul worked with Net Zero Stratford in 2022 to set up the local Repair Café and in2024 launch the Climate Hub in Stratford.
Paul worked in commercial radio for over 30 years, and he set up a charitable trust which guaranteed that 100% of the money
raised by radio listeners (well over £1m) went to deserving children’s causes in the West Midlands. He was also a pension fund
trustee, and later worked with the United Nations on three tours to South Sudan in 2012/2013. Paul likes to quote Al Gore’s rallying cry: “The will to act is, itself, a renewable resource.”