Mr Roger Thomas – Chairman & Trustee
Age 59, married with two grown up sons. Graduate in Metallurgy and after a multi-disciplinary career with significant international experience, spent the final 8 years of my career as a Vice President with Pilkington PLC. Now retired and joined the Trust as a founder member in Feb 2007 and acted as Treasurer until taking over from Martin late last year. I have been appointed a Director of Afonydd Cymru with responsibility for Finance. Keen angler and environmentalist being a member of RSPB and the National Trust. Also involved in other charity work with some N. Wales arts based organisations.
I started fishing when I was 4 fishing for roach and rudd in the ponds behind our house with one of my dad’s bamboo canes a float made from a seagull feather a bent pin and bread paste. I graduated to river fishing at around age 13 when a 40 mile round trip on my push bike would get me a days fishing on the Dee at Llangollen. I am now 63 which means I have been fishing on and off for 59 years. My tackle may be more expensive but I doubt that I catch more fish! During the last 59 years I never really stopped fishing it is just that I could not always find the time fish due to work and family commitments. At 55 I left my consulting job in London and returned to the North West becoming more involved in my local fishing club (ex Chairman and presently Treasurer) and then the Clwyd & Conwy Rivers Trust. In addition I am secretary for the Conwy Valley Fisheries & Conservation Association which has brought me into conservation work on the Conwy system. I am now retired but I am busier than ever working with the EA on the salmon stocking program on the Conwy and general bank and river maintenance on the waters my club own/lease. 
I was born in Wallasey in 1938 and moved to Wales in 1965(my choice) married with two sons worked for British Gas for 32 years sales manager for Clwyd area I started my own gas business in 1993 and retired 2001 I have been secretary to Rhyl and St Asaph AA for 30 years. Founder member of the Federation of Clwyd Anglers and Chairman on six occasions. I was also founder Chairman of the Clwyd and Elwy Conservation Trust and founder Chairman to the Clwyd and Conwy Trust for two years. I was Mayor of Prestatyn 1983/ 84. I have been a very keen angler since I was in short pants. Love the sport and most of the people who participate.
I have lived in north Wales near a tributary of the Clwyd and not too far from the Conwy for over twenty years now and during that time I have taken a keen interest in the ecology of these rivers and the wildlife which they support. I am the treasurer of the Conwy Valley Fisheries & Conservation Association and help to represent that river in Local Fishery Group meetings with the Environment Agency Wales. I collate the fishing and wildlife observations made on the Junction Pool of the Clwyd and the Elwy and I write a monthly column in Trout & Salmon magazine about the Conwy. I have a particular interest in the now very rare migratory smelt (sparling) in the Conwy, as well as the few remaining colonies of Freshwater Pearl Mussels in that river. I am a member of the Mammal Society, the Grayling Society, the Wild Trout Trust and am a founder member of the Welsh Rivers Preservation Society. I was very pleased to become a trustee of the Clwyd & Conwy Rivers Trust at its formation and have every hope that this Trust will have a major benefit on the ecology of these rivers.Insert Write Up
Mr Robert Lloyd Williams – Trustee
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Dr. Nigel James Milner – Trustee
I am a fisheries scientist with a PhD in marine fisheries, starting my salmonid career with six years research into the impact of Craig Goch water transfer scheme on the River Wye, before setting up a fisheries science team for Welsh Water Authority in North Wales. I managed multidisciplinary scientific teams and continued publishing research in the National Rivers Authority, focussing on salmon and trout and their responses to land use impacts, stocking methods and stock assessment. Moving to the Environment Agency in 1989, I became Head of EA Fisheries Science in 2003 and left in 2004 to join APEM Ltd, the largest aquatic ecology consultancy in Europe. I have served on various government research advisory panels, and continue research, particularly into sea trout. Based at Bangor University, I hold an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Department and do a small amount of teaching. I am a Trustee of the CCRT since August 2007 and involved in planning and doing projects to restore environmental quality in the Conwy and Clwyd. I am on the scientific advisory panels of the Atlantic Salmon Trust and Salmon and Trout Association, a Fellow of the Institute of Fisheries Management, member of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles and Chartered Environmentalist. More importantly, I am a keen angler and climber, costs and time for which are shared with wife and two grown up children.
Mr John Morris – Treasurer
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Mr David Jones – Management Group
David Jones aged 60. Retired from 34 years in IT Sales. Current Secretary and Treasurer of the Federation of Clwyd Angling Clubs. Long time Committee member of Rhyl and St Asaph Angling Association, representative on the Local Fisheries Group.
Mr David Crompton – Management Group / Education Project Manager
I run the Trust’s education programme, which at present is entirely school-based.Before retiring I worked for 25 years in the humanities department of the North-east Wales Institute dividing my time between teacher education and lecturing in literature and ideas. I have a strong, life-long attachment to the streams of Dyffryn Conwy in which I have delighted from boyhood on. An awareness of the slow deterioration of these beautiful waters drives me to contribute what I can to their conservation and improvement and to try to encourage in today’s youngsters a sense of the pleasure and wonder of the rivers and their web of biodiversity.I am “queer for the salmon” (though I am not a fisherman) and am with those who see it as the world’s most marvelous animal!
Mr Richard White – Afonydd Cymru EISWF Project Officer
I have fished Welsh rivers since a very young age and my love of river systems led me to study environmental science at Southampton University, specialising in River Management. After graduating in 1993 I volunteered to help survey the Wye catchment as part of the preliminary works of the, then, Wye Foundation. Leading on from this work I became habitat manager for the Wye Foundation, working on various projects throughout the river catchment primarily concerned with accessibility issues for returning salmon and habitat improvement work for juvenile salmonids. This work formed the basis of future European funding bids which in turn lead to the formation of the Wye and Usk Foundation as it is today. In addition I have also worked as a keeper and fishing guide on the middle and upper reaches of the River Usk. My appointment as project officer to Afonydd Cymru’s EISWF project is an opportunity for me to facilitate a wider programme of habitat management on river systems throughout Wales, whilst strengthening the role of river trusts as localised guardians of their environment.
Mr Alec Fletcher – Website Management
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