The Team

Henri Brocklebank
Record Centre Manager
Henri divides her time between running the Record Centre, developing new partnerships, strengthening existing partnerships and enhancing links with data users and providers. She represents Local Record Centres regionally on the South East England Biodiversity Forum.
Charles Roper
Biodiversity IT Officer
Charles is responsible for managing the IT infrastructure of the centre, developing the technology that drives the enquiry service, managing the core database and developing this website. He also provides support and training to staff, volunteers, recorders and partners in Recording software, GIS and other software. Charles is an active participant in the regional and national LRC network, and is founder of the NBN Forum and the LRC Technical Forum.
Penny Green
Biodiversity Records Officer
Penny co-ordinates the enquiry service and oversees data entry. She also co-ordinates the record centre's volunteers, who aid in entering large quantities of data and a variety of other essential tasks. Penny has a strong practical conservation background and was also responsible for setting up the Sussex Wildilfe Trust’s ‘Wildcall’ telephone enquiry service in 2000.
Andrew Lawson
Biodiversity Data Officer
Andrew is involved in many aspects of Record Centre operation, handling more complex bespoke enquiries as well as a variety of GIS specific tasks, including maintenance of the Sussex Habitat Framework. He provides GIS expertise and training to both the Record Centre and Sussex Wildlife Trust.
Helen Burgess
Biodiversity Support Officer
Helen deals with all standard data requests that come into the centre. Part of her week also involves inputting the Ancient Woodland Inventory data collected by Victoria Hume. Helen completed a Biodiversity Survey Masters at the University of Sussex in 2006 and worked for an ecological consultancy and local borough council before joining the Record Centre.
Victoria Hume
Ancient Woodland Inventory Officer
Victoria has the challenging task of identifying all previously undesignated ancient woodland in West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, and Lewes District (Mid-Sussex District is excluded as the survey has already been completed there). The work is carried out through a combination of GIS analysis (with the help of Matthew Grose) and site visits, the latter of which involves surveying for archaeological signs and ancient woodland indicator species. Victoria completed a Biodiversity Survey Masters at the University of Sussex in 2007 and has worked with RSPB and Natural England in the past.
Our Volunteers
Alan Gillham, Peter Challis, Helena Carter, Peter Anderton and many more. All of whom put in many hours and deserve much thanks and praise for the hard work and the warm atmosphere they create.