Who we are

Alison is the ASR Fundraising Advisor, a position created after she finished her hugely successful career with RSPB Scotland in 2025, in the latter years of which she led ASR’s fundraising advocacy. Her extensive expertise helps us lever opportunities to tackle one of the biggest barriers to rainforest restoration - long-term, substantial funding.

Charlie is one of ASR’s Natural Capital Finance Advisors, and supports all aspects of ASR’s approach to ensure that private finance can deliver sustainable and equitable environmental and social outcomes to landscape-scale rainforest restoration. As a Partner at Sylvestris she advises rural businesses on sustainable land management, specialising in natural capital markets.

As RSPB’s Director for South Scotland, Dave oversees RSPB’s rainforest work in Loch Lomond National Park and in Morvern. He also chairs the Loch Lomond and the Trossaachs Countryside Trust. He sits on the Steering Group and provides strategic input to the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest.

Diane (currently on maternity leave) works for The Woodland Trust as the Project Development Manager for the Our Rainforest Futures project, which is about building capacity in rainforest communities. She works closely with the teams at the three hub locations (Morvern, Torridon and Argyll).

Erin co-leads the NGO Rainforest Advocacy Group, which is made up of ASR eNGOs and works with Scottish Environment LINK. She is responsible for finding and co-ordinating advocacy opportunities that can help temperate rainforest restoration. Erin is the Advocacy Officer (Rainforests) for Plantlife.

Gordon is the Saving Scotland’s Rainforest Advisor. Born and brought up in Argyll, Gordon is a Director of Native Woods Coop and an independent woodland management consultant, and as such has decades of experience in woodland management in Scotland’s rainforest zone. As well as advising on rainforest management, he contributes to several other workstreams including advocacy, communications, community engagement and finance.

Jenny co-leads the ASR Fundraising Delivery Group which co-ordinates and supports our work to find significant, long-term funding to support landscape-scale rainforest restoration. She is a Development Officer for Woodland Trust Scotland, leading on fundraising for the Trust’s major rainforest projects, such as at Glen Torridon and Loch Arkaig.

Jenny is the Communications Lead for the ASR, and looks after our website, social media channels, products and press work. She helps create strategies and briefs, and supports the delivery of wider work, including coordinating the ASR Communications Delivery Group, which oversees the work of spreading the word about rainforest. Jenny works for RSPB Scotland, and has more than 25 years’ experience working in journalism and comms.

Jill is the ASR Communications Advisor, providing strategic input into the development and delivery of the ASR communications strategy. Jill is Communications and Development Manager for Woodland Trust Scotland and manages the Communications Officer for the Our Rainforest Futures project.

As Saving Scotland’s Rainforest Programme Manager, Julie has overall responsibility for driving forward the collaborative strategy of the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest, and chairs the ASR steering group and General meetings. She also chairs the Landscape-scale Projects group and the co-chairs the Innovative Funding and Finance Group. She is also Convenor of the Common Ground Forum – a related project around deer management.

Julie is the CEO of Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT), and represents “anchor organisations” on the ASR Steering Group. She also sits on ASR’s Funding Innovative Funding and Finance Group, and is on the steering group of ASR’s Our Rainforest Futures project. ACT works across a major area of Scotland’s rainforest zone, and is leading two of ASR’s landscape scale projects – Knapdale and West Cowal.

Lucy co-leads the ASR Rainforest Research Working Group, which is bringing together and building collaboration between temperate rainforest researchers to identify and answer priority knowledge gaps around rainforest restoration and management. Lucy is a Senior Conservation Scientist for the RSPB and leads on RSPB’s rainforest research in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Mark co-leads the ASR Fundraising Delivery Group which co-ordinates and supports our work to find significant, long-term funding to support landscape-scale rainforest restoration. He is the Grants and Trusts Manager for Woodland Trust, leading on fundraising for the Trust’s major landscape-scale work over all of the UK.

Oliver works for Plantlife as Lichen and Bryophyte Specialist (Scotland). His role is to put bryophytes and lichens at the heart of temperate rainforest management. Oliver is the Habitat Management Lead for the Alliance and coordinates the ASR Monitoring and Management Delivery Group, as well as a group that co-ordinates advice to landowners.

Simon is Policy & Advocacy Manager at Woodland Trust Scotland. Simon has a background in policy and public affairs, including in the land management sector. He co-leads the NGO Rainforest Advocacy Group, which is made up of eNGOs from ASR, and Scottish Environment LINK. Together with co-lead Erin Shott, Simon is responsible for identifying and pursuing advocacy opportunities that enable rainforest restoration.

Tim provides advice and support to ASR on strategy development and delivery. He has over 30 years of native woodland management experience and was one of the founders of ASR in 2017, when he worked as Head of Estate and Programmes for The Woodland Trust Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters and was awarded an OBE in 2026 for services to environmental conservation. He runs his own consultancy, Clear Thinking, offering strategic thinking to deliver social and environmental outcomes.

A partner in Sylvestris along with Charlie, William is a chartered surveyor and works with land managers across Scotland to make nature restoration financially viable. William provides the provides ASR with technical advice on the design of natural capital projects and supports our engagement with both finance partners and landowners.