Speaker Meeting : Val Kirby
Wed, Jul 29th 2015 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
This will be a joint meeting with Stonehouse Rotary Club to be held at the Stroud Bowls Club.
Since June 2013 Dr Val Kirby has been leading a team of volunteers preparing the Heritage Lottery Fund bid to restore the next key stage of the restoration; the four mile length of the Stroudwater Navigation between Saul Junction and Stonehouse.
Dr Val Kirby was appointed to the Cotswold Canal Trust by Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dr Val Kirby lives in Stroud and is a landscape architect and town planner with extensive experience in landscape policy and strategy. She has worked as an academic in England and New Zealand and has a research degree in cultural geography, based on the exploration of cultural and natural heritage. Her voluntary work includes chairing a working group on health and well-being for the Landscape Institute and advising the Cotswold Canals Trust on strategic landscape and planning issues. For several years she was Head of Landscape and Geodiversity at Natural England. She has also worked for the Countryside Agency and for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.
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