Chairman & Conservation Officer(West Sussex): Neil Hulme
nh@nhulme.eclipse.co.uk 
I’ve been passionate about butterflies since childhood and inherited my interest from my father. The best days in the field are still those spent in his company. I have fond memories of our regular family outings to the New Forest, Shropshire and Welsh coast, as well as to every corner of my favourite county, Sussex. Fortunately my mother was remarkably tolerant, as yet another army of hawkmoth caterpillars denuded the garden hedge each school summer holiday. My career as an oil industry micropalaeontologist meant many years ‘in exile’ on the northeast coast of Scotland, where butterflies were all-too-few. A further spell of seven years based in London, but living the majority of my life on oil rigs and platforms, did little to improve the situation. I was delighted to move back ‘home’. I joined Butterfly Conservation in 1996 and it was getting to know the likes of Jim Steedman and David Dancy that furthered my interest, particularly in the pressing issue of conservation. I joined the BC branch committee in 2006, initially as Assistant Conservation Officer to Graham Parris. I am honoured to take over the Chair from my predecessor Roy Neeve and, along with my fellow committee members, will do everything possible to safeguard the future of butterflies and moths in Sussex. How things have changed since those carefree summer days of the early 1970s. Your support for Butterfly Conservation is not only gratefully received, it is vital to our efforts.

Vice Chairman, Conservation Officer(East Sussex) & Park Corner Heath Reserve Manager: Michael Blencowe
sussexgrayling@aol.com 
Michael also acts as Branch Liaison Officer and Branch Health & Safety Representative

Secretary & Butterfly Recording Officer: Clare Jeffers
clarejeffers@aol.com 

Branch Contact/Organiser: Polly Mair
pollymair@btinternet.com 
I joined Butterfly Conservation as a result of breaking my arm in 2007! I had six weeks off work and found that I could use a camera with one hand; I could not drive so I had to make do with getting to know my garden and, in particular, getting to know the insects quite intimately. So my passion for birding and gardening (I used to be a professional gardener) was extended to embrace butterflies.
I thoroughly enjoy learning about our British butterflies and particularly enjoy taking close-up images of them which I also find can be a useful aid to identification; I will be the one on field trips that you see wrestling with a camera and a large lens mounted on a monopod!
This is my second year on the committee and I look forward to doing all I can to help conserve our Sussex butterflies and their habitats.

Treasurer: Andrew Burns
treasurer@sussex-butterflies.org.uk 

Membership Secretary: Linda Bridges
memberships@sussex-butterflies.org.uk 

Webmaster: Adrian Thomas
web@sussex-butterflies.org.uk 

Biodiversity Officer: Dan Danahar
dan@bigbiodiversitycount.org.uk 
My interest in the study of lepidoptera began when I was a child and continues to be a great passion. I have a professional background in Environmental Science and Ecology including a doctorate completed at the University of Sussex in 1998. For the last ten years I have taught at Dorothy Stringer High School in Brighton where, as Biodiversity Co-ordinator, I have managed a number of innovative biodiversity projects, including the creation of a 'butterfly haven' within the school playing fields. I left my role as Branch Publicity Officer in September 2009, to take up the task of dealing with Biodiversity related issues, a precursor to the celebratory "international year of biodiversity" in 2010.

Communications Officer: Caroline Clarke
communications@sussex-butterflies.org.uk 
I joined Sussex BC three years ago and have been on the committee for 18 months as Communications officer and editor of the Sussex Butterfly Report. My love of all things lepidoptera started as a child when I soaked up my father’s enthusiasm for attracting butterflies into our Surrey garden and later through involvement in the fledgling Cumbria branch. Life seemed to get in the way for a couple of decades until my own children were old enough to start exploring the countryside and I realised I had a wealth of half-forgotten expertise to pass on. I have a particular interest in gardening for butterflies and with Adrian Thomas set up the gardening pages on our website. I am also species champion for the White-letter Hairstreak butterfly and am lucky to live within walking distance of some of the most magnificent specimens of elm trees(food plant of the White-letter Hairstreak) in the country. Indeed, if I hang out my bedroom window I can just make out the nearest colony with the help of a pair of binoculars!

Field Trips Organiser: Karen Pritty
events@sussex-butterflies.org.uk 

Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey Co-ordinator: Penny Green
pennygreen@sussexwt.org.uk 

Transect co-ordinator: Peter Atkinson
patkinson55@tiscali.co.uk 

IT Officer: Bob Foreman
photo@sussex-butterflies.org.uk