The QCAN Committee
QCAN is governed by a small base of volunteer committee members, who have obligations and formal roles as President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. We meet and report against goals monthly, and converse almost daily, to enact the key pillars of our CERP. Each committee member has a clear function and most are dedicated to rolling out the activities identified in the eight pillars of our CERP action plan.
Importantly, our committee is designed to represent a wide segment of our local community.
As our founder, Kitty Walker said: “It has to be a diverse makeup; it can't just be a bunch of mates who all have the same mindset because then you'll only be speaking to one segment of your community.”
Our members are appointed or elected, and must be over the age of 18 and local to The Borough of Queenscliffe.
If you are interested in becoming a committee member, please get in touch.
Meet the QCAN Committee
Jenny Barrett
Role on committee: Committee member
Statement on QCAN: Jenny has campaigned for action on the climate emergency with Stop Adani, Climate Action in Colac-Otway anmd for Southern Otways Sustainable with a focus on energy efficiency. She sees QCAN as a good way continue with ‘action as the antidote to despair’.
Guy Le Page
Role on committee: Coordinating our approach to ensure we achieve maximum impact from our volunteer efforts.
Statement on QCAN: Guy joined QCAN support local action on behalf of the environment. The human race can turn around the looming disaster if we all play our part and take positive action.
Neil Mathison
Role on Committee: Treasurer
Peter Cook
Role on committee: President
Statement on QCAN: Climate Change is the greatest challenge facing our community, our nation and the world. The worst impacts of a changing climate are becoming increasingly clear almost daily yet the worst of them will impact my grandson more dramatically. By acting locally I can join the efforts of many like minded people in our magic community and across the world. Hopefully those efforts make a difference and give my grandson and all his generation the opportunity to enjoy life, safe in the knowledge that climate change will not destroy our planet.
David Myer
Role on Committee: Communications
Statement on QCAN: David sees his work with QCAN as an opportunity to do something, however small, to help mitigate climate change.
Tim Clairs
Role on committee: Contributing to specific initiatives, such as the Community Solar Farm and QCAN Donations Compliance. Leading follow-up on Pillar 6 of the CERP (Adaptation and Resilience)
Statement on QCAN: Having worked internationally for many years on climate and nature, Tim returned to Australia to live in Point Lonsdale and joined QCAN, motivated by its strong community engagement and leadership on local climate action.
Lea Corbett
Role on Committee: Secretary and Vice President.
Coordinates the Committee meetings, agendas, minutes and annual report and ensures the organisation complies with its legal obligations and good governance. Lea is particularly involved in strategy and measurement, and the transport and energy pillars.
Statement on QCAN: Lea says that we all should do as much as we can to prevent the world from warming. Our current path is leading to an uninhabitable planet. We can leave it to someone else to fix, but Lea is keen to be part of the solution. That’s why she is working with QCAN.
Ewa Filipiak
Role on committee: Committee member and CERP pillar lead, Consumption and Waste (not sure if we need to explain or provide link) since July 2021.
Statement on QCAN: To support our community respond to the greatest challenge of our generation and show by example how much can be achieved through commitment and collaboration.