Dear Permaculture Australia member,
As a current financial member, you are invited to the Permaculture Australia Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on Sunday 6th April 2025, 1pm EST (Melbourne / Sydney Time) online via Zoom.
Links for associated documents will be available here
Attendance via Zoom – Attendance via Zoom is welcome, the Zoom meeting will be activated right at 1 pm. You will be required to pre-register, for attendance purposes. Please register HERE
Nominations to the Board – Members can nominate themselves or another member they think is suitable and willing to serve on the Board. People nominated must hold a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) certificate or VET Permaculture Cert III or higher, and confirm they are willing to stand and are familiar with or will become familiar with the responsibilities/time commitment outlined in the document ‘What Does Board Membership Involve’.
Under the Permaculture Australia Constitution, members who wish to stand for election to the Board must be nominated by at least 2 other current financial members of Permaculture Australia. If you wish to self-nominate and don’t know any PA members, then include a couple of references from people who know what relevant skills you have to offer PA in your nomination information. You are able to NOMINATE HERE or PA members attending the AGM can nominate during the AGM if they feel they have enough information about you (you are also entitled to speak to the meeting in support of your self-nomination).
We look forward to receiving your responses/nominations and are happy to answer any questions you may have. We encourage anyone who’s considering nominating to chat with a current Director/s.
Regards
Board of Directors
Permaculture Australia
http://www.permacultureaustralia.org.au
Nominees for the 2025 Permaculture Australia Board
Bronwyn Chompff-Gliddon
Obtained PDC in April 2020 from Charles & Jolene Otway at Terra Perma, and have applied the teachings to my life and business ever since. The thing that hit me the most during the PDC was that this is what I’ve been trying to do my whole life – I just never knew it was called Permaculture. I have now dedicated my business, career and life to promoting permaculture as the only way to live sustainably – now, and even more so in the coming days.
With a long background in small business administration and bookkeeping and a current focus on business coaching, I offer expertise in organisational structure, financial acumen, and business administration and operation.
Catherine Reynolds
I am fairly new to Permaculture, having completed my PDCs in 2024 after a 3-year re-programming of my worldview through regenerative education in the fields of economics, finance and living systems organisational design. Permaculture grounded me and allowed me to integrate all this new information in real life and provide foundations for new ways of living and being in the world. I am now of the opinion that Permaculture is one of the critical foundations for the social change required to:
• “wake up” those currently frozen in separation, despair, fear, denial and helplessness
• create the conditions for connecting people to the earth, its creatures, elements and each other
• empower people with practical ways to take back agency in their lives and communities
and I want to participate in the Permaculture movement directly to assist in fulfilling the PA mission as an influential enabler for community resilience and activism in the face of contemporary threats to planetary boundaries, and their social consequences.
John Champagne
20+ years experience and Permafund
PDC in 1992 with Vries & Hugh Gravestein
RPL for Diploma in Permaculture Design
Practical Development, Teaching, Demonstration and promotion,Private Consultancy & eco-village design, Community engagement.
Knowledge, experience and a history with PA
Tim Collings
20 yrs + experience in organisational design and development, coaching and developing boards and leaders, with the last 7 years devoted to infusing living systems theory and practice into these processes. I’ve spent many years as a learning and experience designer and have applied these skills in adult learning in both organisational and community contexts, as well as in youth settings in community organisations. I’ve learnt directly from world leaders in regenerative systemic change and organisational development, including Carol Sanford and Giles Hutchins. I’d hope to bring my whole self, all that I practice and all the energy I can muster to serve on the Board of PA.
2024 / 2025 Permaculture Australia Board Members Renominating
