We introduce the members of our board, and share details on how to become a board member.
The board of Ethical Consumer is made up of:
Every two years investors are invited to elect two investor-members to sit on our board.
The role of the board is to help ECRA to meet its long term goals and to move its social purpose forward.
Board members meet quarterly to assess and advise on the progress that ECRA is making. Meetings normally last two hours. We also hold an annual strategy session to address issues chosen by the board. Board members may attend these meetings online or in person (in Manchester) at their convenience. Travel expenses can be paid. Board members are paid £125 for each meeting attended during the year.
Investor directors need to stand down or seek re-election every two years.
Daniel Welch
Dr Dan Welch is a researcher at the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. His academic research focuses on understanding processes of social change and their relation to consumption.
From 2006-2011 he was a researcher and writer with Ethical Consumer, and between 2008-2011 was co-editor of Ethical Consumer magazine. He was Associate Editor of the online social science magazine Discover Society 2018–2021, and is founding co-editor of the academic journal Consumption and Society (Bristol University Press). Dan previously worked as a copywriter specialising in sustainability communications and undertakes occasional consultancy projects relating to sustainable and ethical consumption.
Tim Hunt (stepping down Sept 2024)
Tim is a comms and digital marketing consultant. He recently co-founded Data.Content.Reach Co-operative. They partner with a range of third sector organisations, including multiple independent publishers, to provide a digital content strategies.
Tim has worked in communications, campaigning and alternative media since 2003 and was a co-founder of publication Manchester Mule (now The Meteor). He’s been involved with Ethical Consumer for almost 15 years, initially as a researcher, then as a co-editor, director and communications lead. He’s a board member at the Fair Tax Foundation and Red Pepper magazine.
He’s also a drummer, football coach, Stoke City supporter and dad of two.
Adina Claire
Adina has 30 years of experience at organisations working for social change and justice. For the last 20 years she has led organisations large and small, with expertise in generating income, communications, and sustainable strategic development.
Her wide experience includes Christian Aid, Amnesty International UK, War on Want, Women’s Aid and NEON (New Economy Organiser’s Network), as well as Board roles at Campaign Bootcamp and Just Treatment.
She is an ethical vegan with two retired racing greyhound companions.
Clare Searle
Clare works as CSOO for a Community Sustainability Charity alongside running an Environment, Social Justice and Strategy consultancy and an executive coaching business. She chairs a grant-giving youth charity board, as well as volunteering in the community in areas including youth mentoring, small business support, dementia projects, and heritage projects.
She passionately believes that we have a responsibility to our local communities and the global community to use our skills for good and to enable Social Justice. Therefore, she uses her senior leadership, strategy, service design, transformation and project experience skills to do just that, no matter what hat she is wearing that day.
Ketan Varia
Ketan assists complex organisations with change management, employing collaborative and whole-system approaches. He has served as a Non-Executive Director (NED) for a large hospital trust and is currently a board member for Mediation Herts, a non-for-profit organisation that provides neighbourhood, peer-to-peer, and family mediation.
Ketan's life motivations are centred on social justice, education, and reducing suffering for the planet and its people. He has been vegan since 2008, as part of his commitment to ethical living.
Ketan also teaches short courses in adult education within humanities at CityLit and regularly volunteers at a school in South India.
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