Fiona Reynolds
Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE has been director-general of the National Trust since January 2001. In March 2012 she announced she was leaving the organisation to take up the post of Master at Emmanuel College at Cambridge University in the Autumn.
Before taking up the post she was director of the Women’s Unit in the Cabinet Office and was previously director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (now Campaign to Protect Rural England) and secretary to the Council for National Parks.
Reynolds was involved with the Trust for many years prior to this as a member of the Trust’s Council and the Thames and Chilterns regional committee, and she chaired the local committee for Sutton House in Hackney. Reynolds was awarded the CBE for services to the environment and conservation in 1998 and was made a Dame ten years later.
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The National Trust’s deputy chairman, director-general and FD share their thoughts with Andrew Hind about leadership, sustainability and the triple bottom line.
The chief executive of the National Trust has condemned the government’s proposals to transfer ownership of the nation’s forests from the Forestry Commission to the private sector, charitable trusts or local communities.
The National Trust has reported an across-the-board increase in its trading and membership this year. Visitor numbers at National Trust sites this October were up by 18 per cent on last October's figures, the trust’s director general Fiona Reynolds told National Trust members at the organisation’s AGM last Saturday, 7 November.
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While staff around the land may be moaning that they have to work for free on 29 February, charities have leapt at the opportunity presented by the extra day.
The National Trust is a charity with 3.5 million members and 49,000 volunteers that looks after 700 miles of coastline, 245,000 hectares of countryside, 300 historic houses and gardens, and dozens of other special places. Fiona Reynolds, its director-general, describes her big issue.
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