Who we are

Our Directors

Bryony Worthington is an experienced climate campaigner who has worked for Friends of the Earth, the government and in the private sector. Bryony developed the concept of ´carbon budgets´whilst at FOE and was a key member of the team that drafted the UK´s Climate Change Bill. She has a detailed understanding of emissions trading policy and has experienced first hand the lobbying that surrounds this important policy which is why she was inspired to set up sandbag.

Barbara le Fleming is a chartered accountant and founding board member. She previously worked in forensic services department of PricewaterhouseCoopers, having qualified in their audit division, and is volunteering for Sandbag as a return to work from being a full-time mother. She is currently working part-time as the accountant for a small PR company.

Louise Crow is a web applications programmer. Her recent projects include creating new internet tools for mySociety.org, the developers of most of UK’s best known democracy websites. She has been involved in web application development for a total of nine years, five of them spent working in San Francisco. Louise has a background in artificial intelligence and psychology.

Sandbag is a registered Community Interest Company.

Our Advisory Board

Sam Clarke is a long time campaigner, especially in the environmental field.

Sam worked at Oxfam for many years, most recently as their director of fundraising, before taking up the leadership of Oxfordshire Mind and, later, the World University Service (now Education Action International).

He has served on the board of both the Refugee Council and Friends of the Earth, and is a founder and chairman of Stop Climate Chaos, the coalition of NGOs. He is also a trustee (and chairman) of the Ethical Property Company.

Sam chairs both the Campaign for Sustainable Communities and Employment for the Disabled, and sits on the Boards of the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust and Fair Pensions.

Tony Juniper is a well known environmental campaigner and commentator. He spent 18 years working for Friends of the Earth where he was executive director from 2003-2008 and played a prominent role in many of its most high-profile campaigns. From 2000-2008 he was Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International, the global federation of 68 national Friends of the Earth organisations.

Tony has worked not only to shift public opinion and government policy but has also been very active in successfully changing the policies and practices of international companies, including Rio Tinto, BP, Shell and Balfour Beatty.

He is currently a Special Adviser to the Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project and a Senior Associate with the Cambridge University Program for Industry . He speaks and writes on environmental issues and sits on several advisory panels. Tony Juniper is the author of several books, including Spix's Macaw (2002) and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet? (2007).

Ann Pettifor is executive director of Advocacy International, which undertakes research and advises governments and organisations on matters relating to international finance and sustainable development. Advocacy International has advised, inter alia, the Nigerian, Guyanese, Ethiopian, Norwegian and British governments as well as prominent NGOs. Ann also advises a large group of British churches on their climate change campaign, Operation Noah.

In the 1990s Ann helped design and lead an international campaign, Jubilee 2000, which succeeded in persuading world leaders to cancel $100bn of debt owed by 42 countries, and became a valuable template for a number of subsequent campaigns.

Ann has served on the board of the UN's Human Development Report on the MDGs, is a member of the high level group of the Helsinki Process, and is senior associate of the New Economics Foundation (NEF).

As well as campaigning and advocacy she is a regular contributor to debates about international finance and has at lectured at the UN, the London Business School and the LSE. She is the author of numerous articles and books and is a co-author of the Green New Deal (NEF, 2008), a set of policies to deal with threats posed by the Credit Crunch, Peak Oil and Climate Change.