Julie Fawcett
Chair of the South Downs National Park Trust

Julie Fawcett is Managing Director of QBic, an environmentally conscious and award winning hotel chain. Prior to this Julie has had an extensive career, working in the Private Equity Sector as an “Entrepreneur in Residence”, for herself through the set up and sale of a retail ecommerce business and the Third Sector, as Managing Director of Llamau Housing Association.

Julie also has experience of partnerships between Local Authorities and Charites, having been Managing Director of Safe in the City, a partnership between 6 London Boroughs and 35 supporting NGO’s.

Josephine Carr
Trustee

Jo was appointed to the SDNPA in April 2010 and reappointed in July 2015. Born on the South Downs at Winton Street, Alfriston, Jo has been closely connected to and lived on the South Downs all her life. Her family has farmed the Downs in East Sussex for over four generations and she now farms 160 acres at Jevington, and her immediate family still farms over 1000 acres in the area.

Jo studied for a Law Degree at University College London and was called to the Bar before becoming a legal journalist, editor and director of a legal publishing company. Her career as a journalist included contributing as a columnist to the Times and Evening Standard and editing and reporting a Channel 4 legal series. She purchased Street Farm in 2001 – the land is mainly in an Environmentally Sensitive Area Scheme, grazed by sheep. She has been Parish Councillor for the Jevington Ward, Willingdon & Jevington Parish Council since 2005.

Janet Duncton
Trustee

Janet was born in Petworth and is married to local farmer Chris Duncton, they farm within the National Park at Osiers which borders the Ebernoe Common Nature Reserve.

A West Sussex County Councillor since 2013 where she is Chief Advisor to the Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport, Chief Advisort to the Cabinet Member for Resident’s Services with special responsibility for West Sussex Fire and Rescue and is Vice Chairman of the Rural Services Network (RSN) for the South East of England. Janet has also been a Chichester District Councillor since 1973 and has held positions of Leader and Cabinet Member for both Housing and Planning.

Janet was a founder member of the Sussex Downs Conservation Board, she is a supporter of agriculture, the countryside and local community. Janet has always lived in the countryside and enjoys walking, cycling, gardening and travel.