• Chairman - Dr Martin Partridge   07729 328691  martin.partridge@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk

 + Membership Secretary

I am an Industrial Chemist by training and have recently retired as a Research Director at Johnson Matthey. 

I have had a lifelong interest in wildlife conservation with Butterflies being my real passion. I am a keen traveler and wildlife photographer. I help manage a large brownfield biodiversity site in Teesside on which we have recorded 25 species of butterfly. I am the species writer for the Northern Brown and Brown Argus. I am also a board trustee of the Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trust and the committee of the European Butterfly Group.

I also handle any of your questions on membership.

• Publicity and Media -  Rachel Tilburn     Rachel.Tilburn@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk

Rachel is happiest in the fells or in open water. She loves all nature but especially butterflies and moths, her favourite being the White Ermine. Rachel lives in the Three Peaks area of the Yorkshire Dales and spends most of her spare time outside either running, walking, swimming or biking - all activities are then followed by tea and cake! Rachel runs her own business, working as an Investment Manager and lives with her husband, son and Bernard the dog. As a family they travel a lot and enjoy motorbiking and scuba diving around the world.

• Committee Member - Richard Tripp   richard.tripp@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk  

I am a non practicing solicitor in a legal consultancy business having retired from partnership at a Leeds law firm in May 2020.  I’ve had a passion for all things nature and wildlife since my early days growing up on Anglesey and now love exploring these in Yorkshire with my family.  I also volunteer at RSPB St Aidan’s and as a trustee with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. 

• Committee Member - Ginni Darbyshire  ginni.darbyshire@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk 

I’ve been passionate about natural history, particularly butterflies and moths, since I was around seven years old. I still have my ‘Observer’s Book of the Larger British Moths’, given me on my ninth birthday! I worked as a children’s librarian, so having helped young people towards increased knowledge and empathy makes me feel very strongly that we should be creating new young enthusiasts for the natural world. Together with other committee members I have held talks and activities for schools and other groups, and have especially enjoyed promoting the Big Butterfly Count, and ‘gardening for butterflies and moths.’ I’m looking forward to new opportunities to inspire young people in the future. 

• Committee Member - Rolf Farrell  rolf.farrell@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk

Rolf has a particular interest in the Northern Brown Argus and the Duke of Burgundy and as time allows joins the conservation team and leads field trips

• NW Yorks Conservation Officer - Terry Whitaker terry.whitaker@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk

• Data officer & Species data analysis - Catherine Jones   catherine.jones@ yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk

• Conservation Officer - Allan Rodda   01723 365960  mobile 07909 635 703   allan.rodda@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk   

Allan assists Sam Newton on the  conservation team and is point of contact for  at Fordon Chalk Bank, Yatts Farm and Gundale. 

He is  admin of the North and East Yorkshire Butterfly and Moth Facebook page as well as a being very active moth trapping around Scarborough

Son of a farmer with a keen interest in fell running and motocross, a man of action; his passion is contagious

• Les Driffield  Owner of Wenthillside Reserve

07762 943379   les.driffield@yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk

After retiring from the coal mining industry,  family,  and all those other commitments I have become  a "LOL" ( Late Onset Lepidopterist). I’ve always had an interest in wildlife and ecology from working the land  on an allotment for more than 20 years.  Still I find I'm constantly learning and being amazed by our natural world every day. I own and run a nature reserve, “Wenthillside” in West Yorkshire. A site available for all BC members to visit, by prior arrangement. 

My ambition is to create conservation teams throughout South and West Yorkshire to help preserve and promote  butterflies and moths for us all to appreciate.

Alison Duffield :  Butterfly Transect co-ordinator for YWT