Bandstand Beds
Bandstand Beds is a volunteer-led community gardening project on the Common, engaging with the public to share horticultural skills and knowledge, and growing food to further social, economic and environmental wellbeing. The group works in partnership with CCMAC to organise events such as Common People and ecological projects like the Colour Your Common wildflower meadow.
Cllr. Linda Bray
Linda has lived in Clapham for over 30 years and is a local councillor for Clapham Town ward. She visits the Common most days with her dog. Her mission is to preserve the Common as a green and peaceful haven for community use and to make sure it receives its fair share of parks investment in Lambeth.
Phil Carey
Phil moved to just off Clapham Common Westside 20 years ago and, as a frequent user of the Common – walking, cycling and running – is keen to help make it something that local people can be proud of. His career has been in transport policy, as a civil servant and now working independently. He’s well versed in weighing up the competing demands on a valuable resource such as Clapham Common.
Cllr. Ben Curtis
Ben lives just off the Common, and walks his dog there every day. He is a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Clapham Common & Abbeville ward and Cautley Avenue resident. His mission is to strengthen the bond between the Clapham Common MAC and the local community – so that the Common can be preserved for generations to come. As the youngest Councillor on Lambeth Council, he’s equally keen to make sure that young people’s voices are heard when it comes to improving public spaces.
Clapham Society – Andrew Summers
Andrew Summers represents the Clapham Society. Andrew has lived in and around Clapham for almost 20 years and is passionate about the neighbourhood’s amenities and cleanliness, and appeal as both a place to visit and to live. He is also very keen to preserve and enhance our open spaces, in particular Clapham Common.
Adrian Darley – Treasurer
Adrian has lived near Clapham Common for 26 years and has always been an active user of much of what it has to offer . He can regularly be seen running or in the cricket nets with his children and also enjoys fishing on Eagle and Mount ponds a few times a year. He has been a volunteer coach for local hockey club London Wayfarers for five years and has watched his children playing school sport on the Common since they were at nursery. He is also very interested in nature and gets a lot of pleasure in spotting the occasional woodpecker or sparrowhawk on the Common.
Cllr. Alison Inglis-Jones
Alison has lived in Clapham for over 25 years. She is a trustee and volunteer at Brixton & West Norwood foodbank. Alison is an experienced trustee with a record of overseeing and running successful public affairs campaigns for the private, public and voluntary sectors. She provides pro-bono public affairs advice to a range of local, national and international charities. She was elected as a Labour Councillor in Clapham Common & Abbeville in May 2022.
Friends of Clapham Common – Gareth James
Gareth is a landscape designer and plantsman currently working in London and the Home Counties. He has 25 years of horticultural experience and in addition to his work with private clients, has created sensory gardens for schools and planned large estate projects in the UK, Italy and France.
Gareth lives in Balham and has been actively involved in urban tree-planting projects with the borough council. He is passionate about ecology, nature conservation and sustainable management practice. He is committed to improving biodiversity on the Common by regenerating the woodlands, reintroducing scrubland and re-wilding its ecological core.
Jeremy Keates
Manager, This is Clapham, Business Improvement District.
Nikki Marsh
Nikki has lived near Clapham Common, in Northcote Ward in Wandsworth, for over 40 years – her children were born and grew up here and her family has always made great use of the Common. She has worked for local and national voluntary organisations and in higher education. Her most recent job was at a Wandsworth-based literacy charity, where she was head of events and campaigns. She believes that the Common should be for everyone and especially for those local residents who don’t have access to other outdoor spaces.
Simon Millson – Chair
Simon is a long-time Clapham resident. He believes the Common is a valuable green, open space and a great asset for the local community and through sustainable management and wise use should continue to bring pleasure and joy to a wide cross section of people. He is committed to maintaining the Common as an historical landmark in London.
Michael Mooney
Michael has lived in Clapham for 33 years, the past 26 overlooking Clapham Common on the Southside. He raised his family here and is frequently on the Common to walk the family dog. As part of the long-standing community directly surrounding the Common, he has the ear of many neighbours who can offer a valuable insight into its daily use and impact. He is keen to contribute to the great work being done and see it extend to any overlooked parts of the Common and to ensure it remains welcoming for everyone.
Joanna Reynolds
Joanna is a resident of Clapham Common & Abbeville ward.
Krishna Siva
Krishna is a forty-years plus resident of Nightingale Lane. After local schooling and graduating from Middlesex University he worked in investment research, and other London-based work until 2008. After unemployment, in 2011 he took up self-employment as a tennis coach at Clapham Common Westside. More recently since 2016, he volunteered initially as treasurer for the Friends of Clapham Common. Among his varied interests are reading classic literature and hiking in the Lake District and Cairngorms in Scotland. Krishna is passionate about Clapham Common and is keen to help its conserve to higher standards.