The QCAN Committee
QCAN is governed by a small base of volunteer committee members, who have obligations and formal roles as President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. We meet and report against goals monthly, and converse almost daily, to enact the key pillars of our CERP. Each committee member has a clear function and most are dedicated to rolling out the activities identified in the eight pillars of our CERP action plan.
Importantly, our committee is purposely designed to represent a wide segment of our local community.
As our founder, Kitty Walker said: “It has to be a diverse makeup; it can't just be a bunch of mates who all have the same mindset because then you'll only be speaking to one segment of your community.”
Our members are appointed or elected, and must be over the age of 18 and local to The Borough of Queenscliffe.
If you are interested in becoming a committee member, please get in touch.
Meet the QCAN Committee
Stuart
Title: Committee Member
Role on committee: Stuart has spent time in helping with the exec and administration of QCAN and holds a special interest in the Sustainable Transport pillar.
Statement on QCAN: Inspired by the positive and productive community reaction following the initial climate action meeting in 2019, Stuart joined QCAN with a strong belief that local action drives global action - to create a liveable future for our children.
Guy Le Page
Title: President
Role on committee: Overseeing and coordinating our approach to ensure we achieve the maximum impact from our volunteers within our community.
Statement on QCAN: I joined QCAN to do my part and support local action on behalf of the environment. I believe the human race can turn around the looming disaster if we all play our part and take positive action.
Neil Mathison
Title: Treasurer
Peter Cook
Title: Secretary
Role on committee: Secretarial duties include managing the formal requirements of incorporation and QCAN meetings, representing QCAN in meetings with external parties and work with the Renewable Energy and Sustainable Buildings Pillar Team
Statement on QCAN: Climate Change is the greatest challenge facing our community, our nation and the world. The worst impacts of a changing climate are becoming increasingly clear almost daily yet the worst of them will impact my grandson more dramatically. By acting locally I can join the efforts of many like minded people in our magic community and across the world. Hopefully those efforts make a difference and give my grandson and all his generation the opportunity to enjoy life, safe in the knowledge that climate change will not destroy our planet.
Kitty Walker
Title: Founder, Committee Member
Role on committee: Leading our Mobilisation, Education and Collaboration pillar and supporting the Executive on stakeholder relations - particularly at a government and industry level.
Statement on QCAN: In October 2019 I started a conversation about the increasing impacts of climate change in our community and found myself accidentally leading a local movement that resulted in the Borough of Queenscliffe declaring a climate emergency and committing to developing a response plan in partnership with the community. After four years as President I am now an active committee member and love working across all of the CERP pillar groups, but get the greatest enjoyment when bringing different people and community groups together to solve complex issues - it's amazing what can happen when we all work together.
Ewa Filipiak
Title: Committee Member
Role on committee: Committee member and CERP pillar lead, Consumption and Waste (not sure if we need to explain or provide link) since July 2021.
Statement on QCAN: To support our community respond to the greatest challenge of our generation and show by example how much can be achieved through commitment and collaboration.
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