SUMMARY
Chas has played a key role in two leading edge environmental businesses, City Car Club (Smart Moves Limited) and SWAP (Save Waste And Prosper Ltd, environmental consultants), building them up to nationally recognised enterprises both employing nearly 20 people.
As Development Director at City Car Club 2005-07, he worked closely with developers, housing associations and local authorities on aspects of city design and regeneration, where the planning process provides a challenging framework. He is familiar with the requirements of a commercial business environment, dealing with decision makers and reporting to stakeholders. He also has significant experience of facilitating cross-sector collaboration, bringing people from different sectors together to work on issues of mutual concern.

KEY SKILLS
Management - strategic and operational
Managing a successful city wide programme of car club development
Having successfully tendered to take over the flagship car club scheme in Edinburgh in 2002 after Budget pulled out, he was responsible for City Car Club’s expansion of the scheme to over 60 cars and for liaison and annual reporting to City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) on the key indicators of the scheme’s development.

Strategy development and project implementation
Sustainable transport policies and projects
As an Associate at RATC Ltd, Chas has expanded his work on sustainable transport (including travel planning, developing car clubs and car pools, and reducing carbon footprint).
He has extensive experience of partnership working with local authorities, in the development and implementation of their local transport plans. He has worked closely with Bristol City Council from 2001 and City of Edinburgh Council from 2002.

Experience of managing EU Civitas programme
He worked on the Civitas programme with Bristol City Council as a contractor delivering car club expansion and in administering a scheme (Civitas Smile with Malmo and Norwich councils) where City Car Club is a partner.
Developers and planners – Residents’ Travel Plans and S.106 agreements
He led a team that was commissioned by house builders to prepare detailed schemes to include car clubs and car sharing to meet the challenge of reduced parking and traffic.

Reducing carbon footprint and cost of travel and transport
He has experience of reviewing travel options with major transport users, and has had particular interest in using pool cars as an alterative to private car use. He has been involved over several years with local authorities, universities and other employers mainly in using car club cars as pool cars, booked on the internet and billed monthly (e.g. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; North Bristol NHS Trust; City of Edinburgh Council).

Other skills: management of staff and budgets; commissioning design and print; managing media relations; commission web sites; conference and event planning; meeting facilitation.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
City Car Club (Smart Moves Limited) Feb 99 - Aug 07
Founder and director, City Car Club, the first commercial car club operator in UK, he sourced insurance, vehicles and implemented the use of new telematics systems. He pioneered new car clubs in Bristol, London and Edinburgh, branded as City Car Club and in 2005 took on the “development” role. In 2006 the company hit a turnover of £1M (2006).
He is experienced at partnership working with local authorities, developers and housing associations. He prepared reports on projected impact of car club on parking for use in planning application for a variety of locations, including Edinburgh.
He was a founder of Carplus (NGO promoting benefits of car clubs and car sharing) and a non-executive director until 2005. He represented Carplus on the Countryside Agency’s national Rural Transport Partnership (RTP) and he initiated the establishment of a national accreditation programme for car clubs.

SWAP (Save Waste and Prosper Ltd) Aug 89 - Nov 97
Executive Director of not-for-profit waste and environmental consultancy, which undertook pioneering research on waste separation through an analysis of household waste from 100 families in Leeds. From the results of this work, SWAP advised Leeds City Council on promotion of kerbside recycling. To generate growth, he developed a range of research and consultancy activities in recycling and waste separation and as interest in recycling grew, several blue-chip companies were recruited as clients, including ASDA Stores Ltd, B&Q plc and ICI Dulux. This work began with recycling projects but with B&Q moved into the whole environmental programme and its impact on product packaging. He contributed sections to How Green Is My Hammer and How Green Is My Front Door, B&Q's first two corporate environmental reviews. From this initial work SWAP developed a significant role with B&Q’s supplier auditing on both packaging and hazards
He was a founder of the National Household Hazardous Waste Forum (a cross-sector body) and he worked for five years as lead consultant to ICI Paints, initially to develop an effective national paint recycling programme. This started with two pilot schemes – in Leeds and West London - and moved to a nationwide roll-out.

Friends of the Earth (UK 2000 Projects Unit) 88 - 89
He was employed as Business Development Officer in the projects team at FoE, advising local environmental organisations on setting up and expanding businesses.

Leeds City Council 83 - 86
He joined the Business Development section and provided support to local co-operative and community business developers.

Highlands & Islands Development Board (now HIE) 79 - 83
He was Community Co-operatives Development Officer, promoting innovative grants and loans programme to communities in most remote parts of the sub-region.

EDUCATION AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
Sheffield Hallam University Postgraduate diploma in Urban Regeneration 1999

Cardiff University BSc (Econ) degree in Sociology 1970

Common Purpose Leeds 97/98 programme