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My CPRE farewell speech

  Thank you all so much for coming.     It’s good to be here with so many of the people I have worked with over the past five years at CPRE and to be joined by partners and colleagues from across the natural environment and the heritage world. I am incredibly lucky to have been able to forge a career in the charitable sector. When I look back to when I started out over 30 years ago (glug) I really had no idea what was possible, where the opportunities might lie.  A series of chances, maybe the occasional good judgement and certainly encounters with great mentors and leaders with imagination and empathy have taken me into the mental health, housing, social work, heritage, community development and natural environment sectors just to mention a few, and in the process have given me the chance to do many interesting jobs and to lead several organisations as chief executive and chair. To be able to do that in a values-led, progressive sector and with some of the most hardworking, amazing an
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My new role

  Press release For immediately release: Wednesday 21 September 2022   The Rayne Foundation Appoints New Director Crispin Truman OBE is to be the new Director of The Rayne Foundation CEO of CPRE, the countryside charity since 2017, Crispin has 25 years' experience of charity leadership, working across sectors and with all levels of government. He was previously CEO of the Churches Conservation Trust and of Revolving Doors Agency before that. He has chaired and been trustee of several organisations, including UK and European heritage networks, Rethink Mental Illness, the London Cycling Campaign and was chair of governors at Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form in London. Robert Rayne, Chairman of The Rayne Foundation, said:   ‘ Crispin brings a breadth of experience of working with the causes of most importance to Rayne, as well as the knowledge and expertise needed to lead our Foundation in the next stage of its development. As Rayne becomes a more strategic, proacti
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On Leaving CPRE the countryside charity

Making positive progress   In my last month as chief executive of CPRE the countryside charity, I reflect on the past five years and my hope for the charity’s future.     My five years at CPRE have flown by, packed with change, progress, frustration, excitement, and plans - and the unplanned - achieved .  Two years of pandemic and lockdown certainly w ere n’t on my agenda back in 2017.     When I look back over those five years to why I joined CPRE , three things stand out .   The first was m y urgent, personal desire to do something in my career which involved protecting and enhancing the natural environment and , in particular , our countryside and green space most at risk.      I was and am driven by the conviction that w e neglect and destroy – needlessly – green space in and around our towns and cities for so-called ‘essential’ infrastructure because we value it too little.  Our dependence on cars has made us believe that travelling a long way to get to nature is somehow
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