Charlotte Hitchmough

Director


Charlotte has been working with ARK over a decade, and has built up an extensive knowledge of the issues affecting chalk streams and the Kennet and Pang in particular. She came to ARK from a background in the water industry and science communication and has built the charity’s activities to include river habitat restoration, catchment management, education and outreach working with farmer, water efficiency and sustainable drainage.
Contact Charlotte.

Anna Forbes

Senior Project Officer & Volunteer Co-ordinator


Anna's trains and co-ordinates our volunteers to support our regular practical conservation and restoration projects in and by the river, sharing her knowledge and passion. She is a champion of Citizen Science and oversees a variety of surveying and monitoring work, including our water vole surveying and riverfly monitoring. Anna leads our Corporate Volunteer Programme.


Anna leads our educational outreach with communities, including our River School activities for schools and groups such as Brownies and Cubs.

She is ARK's project lead for Stonebridge Wild River Reserve.

Contact Anna.

 

Rupert Kelton
Rupert is our Operations Director. He managed the DEFRA Green Recovery Sparkling Streams project in 2021, the Shalbourn and Og river realignment projects and is designing and implementing ambitious river habitat restoration and wetland creation work across our catchments. 


Rupert leads on all our practical habitat restoration work and larger projects and in 2024-2025 is managing the river and wetlands elements of the Partnerships for Nature project in the Kennet catchment.
Julie Parker
Julie is our Business Administrator. She works part-time keeping the office in order, supporting the team day to day and working with our Tresurer to take care of payments and accounts.
James Hubbard
James joined us in 2024 and is Project Officer for the Pang, but is busy in the Kennet catchment too!

He oversees community engagement and citizen science in the Pang and is leading and developing our water quality work.

As well as supporting River School he leads conservation tasks, from balsam bashing to river restoration across both catchments, supporting Anna and Rupert.