About Us

Catherine is from a Tees-side family, although she has never lived there, and moved around the country with her NHS job for over 30 years. She lived and worked in Newcastle and the Tyne Valley, South Wales, Swindon and Lancashire before settling in Morpeth in 2016. She volunteered in a Lancashire Country Park before moving to Northumberland and now volunteers with the Wildlife Trust. She does conservation, survey work and public engagement work on many of their reserves, including Northumberlandia and Hauxley, and on the Ospreywatch Project at Kielder.

Catherine has been involved with Climate Action Wansbeck from the beginning. As a Committee member she has been working on some of the administrative jobs that need doing when a new organisation starts up, as well as supporting our Market Stalls and the Ecofair. She is really looking forward to getting going with more projects locally to get Northumberland towards net zero and to combat biodiversity loss.

Margaret was born and brought up in Morpeth but has lived most of her life in Ashington. She studied Fine Art at Sunderland and Newcastle University and subsequently became an art teacher. As a practising artist she was particularly interested in nature and the environment and until recently kept bees. Her mission was to understand how they lived and to protect them from harm.

Margaret's concern about what is happening to the planet has been long-standing. On a personal level, she tries to live sustainably and has made a commitment to never to fly.

Margaret was delighted to become involved with Climate Action Wansbeck and has been a committee member from its onset. This has given her the opportunity to meet and work with like-minded people on sustainability projects in Morpeth and Ashington.