CPRE Berkshire welcomes Rajiv and Eira to the team

We are delighted to announce that we have several new members of the CPRE Berkshire team. Following last year’s appointment of Andy Smith, an experienced journalist and a former director of CPRE Surrey, as our Media and Communications Officer, we have recently engaged the services of Rajiv Chelani as our Projects Manager.

Rajiv has been actively involved with various environmental initiatives in Berkshire, including Transition Maidenhead, promoting sustainability, renewable energy and recycling in the local area. He was also the founding director of a co-housing project for the Thames Valley, and has worked in the private, public and voluntary sectors in a variety of management and consultancy roles. He joins us in a part-time role, working with CPRE Berkshire chair Greg Wilkinson, branch secretary Gloria Keene and media/comms officer Andy Smith, to initiate and deliver projects that broaden our impact on the wider community.

In addition, we now have a Local Transport Champion in Berkshire – Eira Jones. A new CPRE volunteer, Eira’s role is to help us deliver CPRE’s vision of a more comprehensive and cohesive bus network for rural areas. In this capacity she will be talking to local councils, and to community and amenity groups throughout Berkshire, as well as working with CPRE activists to make the case for better bus services. She has already been busy publicizing Better Transport Week (12-18 June), run by CPRE’s partner the Campaign for Better Transport. Eira can be contacted via the CPRE Berkshire office.

We are always on the lookout for more volunteers for the Berkshire Branch of CPRE. In particular we still need more ‘activists’ in the east of the county – in the boroughs of Bracknell Forest, Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead, and Wokingham. If you would like to get more actively involved in CPRE Berkshire, at the county-wide level or in one of our district groups, please contact the Branch Office.