Executive committee
Our elected Executive Committee is a selection of local people from all walks of life who are passionate about improving our area.
Julian Cusack
Julian Cusack is a widely experienced local councillor, business leader and charity volunteer. He is a former Suffolk County councillor, a member of the national Executive Committee of the Green Party of England and Wales and Chair of the party in Suffolk Coastal.
A Chartered Accountant, he has held senior executive and Board positions with major companies in the insurance sector in the UK and abroad. Throughout his career he has taken voluntary financial roles in charities dealing with homelessness, domestic violence, community relations and residents' associations, and has been a school governor. He is currently Treasurer of the National Gardens Scheme in Suffolk.
Julian lives at Middleton in the heart of the Suffolk Coastal constituency, where he chairs the Parish Council. In nearby Kelsale he and his wife Fiona now farm 50 acres as a small local enterprise demonstrating sustainable food production and wildlife-friendly farming practices.**
If Julian is elected, he promises that he will have "no second job, no freebies in return for favours, and no inappropriate expenses paid for by taxpayers". He hopes to be given the privilege of serving all the people of Suffolk Coastal.
Why did he join the Green Party? "Because I want our children and grandchildren to have a safer world and a fairer country than the one that is facing them now."
To contact Julian please email julian@suffolkcoastal.greenparty.org.uk
**If you would like to know more about Nonsuch Farm, you can visit the website by following this link
Jeremy Adams: Member of Executive Committee
Jeremy has lived in Kelsale for over 40 years. He worked as an administrator, editor, researcher and project manager at BT Research Labs for 27 years. He then spent two years volunteering in Tanzania with his wife and then worked for 10 years as a Countryside Ranger for Suffolk County Council.
In 2005, he and his wife founded a charity which continues to support Tanzanian orphans to get an education. He is a director of Dunwich Greyfriars Trust which looks after the Friary ruins and the small wood adjacent to them. In 2019 he stood as Green candidate for the Kelsale and Yoxford ward of the new East Suffolk District Council and came second.
He is a member of RSPB, Suffolk Wildlife Trust, The Woodland Trust, WWF and Amnesty International.
Tim Wilson: Co-ordinator
Tim grew up in North Norfolk and moved to Suffolk with his young family in 2020 after fifteen years working in the creative industries in London as a business owner, producer, festival director, and arts consultant.
He is an AGILE Project Manager and qualified to foundation level with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy.
Tim was elected as District Councillor for the Rendlesham & Orford Ward on 4th May 2023.
NIGEL HILEY: MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
Nigel lives in Saxmundham and was formerly our Election Agent and a member of Saxmundham Town Council
MARIE ADAMS
Marie is the Suffolk Coastal Green Party Election Agent. She has lived in Kelsale for over 40 years and was a Social Worker for over 30 years, taking a two year break in 1998 to be a VSO volunteer in Tanzania. She worked with a local charity to support vulnerable children to attend school. Subsequent to this she and her husband founded a charity which continues to support Tanzanian orphans to get an education.
She is a member of RSPB, Suffolk Wildlife Trust, The Woodland Trust, WWF and Amnesty International. She and her husband are also volunteers for the local Trussell Trust food bank and deliver emergency food and support to people locked in poverty.
Marie has four grandchildren and worries about their future. She has chosen to support the Green Party, believing that this party will be the one to make a difference to the future viability of this planet.
