13 July 2001
The Prime Minister has today re-appointed Professor Christopher Baines as a Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund for a further period of three years.
Notes for Editors
The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) is a fund of last resort which provides grants for buying items of outstanding interest or importance to the national heritage, and which are at risk of being developed, damaged or destroyed. The NHMF is also responsible for the distribution of the heritage share of the proceeds from the National Lottery via the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The HLF gives financial help to projects which safeguard improved access to land, buildings, objects and collections of importance to the national heritage of the UK. It can also support projects which produce wider public benefits in terms of education, access and urban regeneration. Trustees are entitled to claim a daily allowance of £185 for their work on behalf of NHMF.
Professor Chris Baines (54) is a self-employed horticulturist, landscape architect and environmental campaigner. He founded the pioneering Urban Wildlife Group in Birmingham, and is now President of the Urban Wildlife Partnership. He was awarded an honorary personal chair at the University of Central England, after 15 years of post-graduate teaching in the Department of Planning and Landscape. In 1995 Sheffield Hallam University awarded him an honorary doctorate. Chris Baines is involved with the practical development of Local Agenda 21. He is a member of the Ministerial sounding board for rural policy, the BBC Rural Affairs Advisory Board, and has written and presented several television series.
Professor Baines has undertaken no significant political activity in the past 5 years and holds no other public appointments.
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