Roger Hammond

At the beginning of the Council meeting on Monday, there was a minute's silence for Roger Hammond, who died recently after a short illness.
He was very active in support of Hay's twinning with Timbuktu, and was one of the local people who went to Mali to visit Timbuktu. He was also a supporter of Two Towns, One World, which is the organisation set up to promote twinning projects.
In his own work, he set up Living Earth Foundation - and the tributes to him have come in from all over the world on their website. Living Earth was set up in 1987 to work with a wide variety of people on social and environmental problems, trying to find solutions which would work locally. They have projects running all over the world, because some of the problems communities face are now global problems. Just looking down the list of the things they are involved in, I saw projects as varied as Great Ape Conservation in Cameroon, to a scheme pairing schools in Alaska and Aberdeenshire, and he seems to have been personally known to people all over the world.
One lady from Venezuela commented: "Now he is building a better world somewhere."
The Living Earth website is at www/livingearth.org.uk and they are about to set up a trust fund in Roger Hammond's memory.