The PAW Trust in the UK

In the UK, PAW is established as a not-for-profit company and charitable Trust. The Trust has a legal agreement, called a concession, with the Government of Malawi and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, to deliver conservation, eco tourism and poverty reduction programmes at Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve. The Trust has a local delivery agency, the Mwabvi Wildlife and Community Trust, with whom it agrees annual and longer term programmes of work. The UK Trust fundraises for the conservation work in Malawi, promotes sound conservation principles and also organises an education programme.

We promote conservation and fundraise across the world, mainly in English speaking countries, but we also have volunteers and friends in a number of other countries and are always keen to hear from new ones!

We have a small group of Trustees made up of representatives from our sponsor companies and volunteer fundraisers. We are always looking for people who can give significant time to our work.

Current vacancies as Trustees

If you are interested and have skills in fundraising, in marketing and PR or in conservation in Africa, please contact our UK Director for more details and an informal discussion.

Get Involved!

If you'd like to get involved with PAW in the UK , or help us from your home country, have a look at the different ways you can help and learn about conservation at the same time in our Getting Involved pages.

The PAW logo

Our logo was designed by Dave Midgley in 2004 and updated in 2008. It is trademarked and if you would like to use it please contact us to discuss.

Trustees

Gaynor Asquith	Gaynor Asquith is co-founder of PAW and the PAW Trust. She has travelled extensively in Africa, is a Fellow of the Royal gepgraphical Society and is committed to saving a small piece of African Wilderness before it has all disappeared. Gaynor leads the PAW Trust fundraising campaigns and is a UK spokesperson for PAW. Like all the Trustees her time is given on a voluntary basis. Gaynor is a co Director of arc4, the housing and regeneration company based in the UK that supports PAW with office and marketing facilities.

Helen Brzozowski	Helen Brzozowski is also a Director of arc4. Her work as a Trustee is based around her desire to help people to help themselves, to support families and to see the environment put to best use for everyone now and in the future. Helen's background is in social housing and social enterprise and she is also keen to see Mwabvi used as a fundraiser and economic opportunity both for conservation and the rural economy.

David Cumberland	David Cumberland is the third of the arc4 Directors involved with PAW and is the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. As an economist David is keen to see PAW use a business like approach, to offer transparency and accountability for the Trust's work and to maximise the amount of funds that go to Mwabvi.

Jim Battle	Jim Battle is a Mancunian and Deputy Leader of Manchesetr City Council. His career background before becoming a full time public servant and politician was in social housing. Jim is keen to see links created and maintained between the northwest of England and southern Malawi, and to encourage local and national environmentally based regeneration companies get more involved with worldwide conservation.

Katy Scholfield	Katy Scholfield is a PhD student based at Manchester University and in Rwanda. She has studied the funding programmes worldwide for conservation organisations and is now researching for her PhD within the conservation environment. Katy is keen to make sure that we are aware of current conservation techniques and understand the research and work of our colleagus in Malawi.

Peter Galloway	Peter Galloway is widely travelled in Africa and passionate about the land and it's people. His background is in accounting and investment and he is interested in our fundraising techniques and our growth plans. Peter is a keen supporter of our community development programme.

Pauline Davis	Pauline has worked in the public sector as a teacher, and school governor, in public health education and in housing and regeneration. She has been a Councillor, is an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. She is currently Director of a Housing market renewal agency and a member of the Guinness Northern Counties Housing Association Board. Pauline has visited Mwabvi and met the people there. She is keen to support education and community development programmes having seen the difference they make for herself in the UK and Malawi.

Ambassadors

Fiona Allen	Born close to Manchester, actress and comedienne Fiona Allen is best known for the series Smack The Pony. She has also starred in Coronation Street , Dalziel and Pascoe, and Goodness Gracious Me. Fiona and her family are very interested in our plans to bring back the black rhino. Read the Press Release

Jack McConnell MSP	Jack McConnell MSP is the former First Minister of Scotland. He is currently assisting with the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative in Malawi and Rwanda on a voluntary basis, and acting as an Ambasador for the Tony Blair Foundation. He is keen to promote the Scotland Malawi Partnership and has helped ith school twinning, being particularly interested in our education and training work. Read the Press Release

Stephen Tompkinson	Stephen Tompkinson is our newest PAW ambassador. He has featured in many TV shows, notably Ballykissangel , Drop The Dead Donkey, and Wild at Heart . He starred in The Revenger's Tragedy at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and a further series of Wild at Heart in 2009, as well as completing a hot air balloon flight over Africa in February 2009. This trip demonstrated his love of all things African and he is very interested in our environmental protection work. Read the Press Release

Larry Gold	Larry is an unsung hero. He is a Director of Trafford Housing Trust and provides free accountancy and finance advice for PAW Trust through his team. Trafford Housing Trust are proud of their record in helping small not for profit organisations and in return for training and involvement with our projects, Larry ensures we get a professional service of high quality.

Kate Mitchell and Dave Start	In 2008, Kate Mitchell set up in business as a consultant, specialising in organisation development. She works with public and voluntary sector organisations, helping them develop business planning and performance processes, and training managers. Because Kate believes people and environment are co-dependent, her interest in PAW is the relationship between the communities around Mwabvi and the wildlife reserve. She would like to see the communities fully committed to maintaining the reserve, providing its future workforce, the whole becoming independent and sustainable. To do this, there is the need to develop the structure to provide for basic needs such as a water supply, nutrition, primary health provision, and engagement with education.

Julie ' Blondie' Howlett	Julie 'Blondie' Howlett is a 53 year old who fell in love with Africa and conservation many years ago. She is passionate about wildlife in its natural state.