Meet the Committee

Jamie joined the Angling Trust and Fish Legal as CEO in January 2020. The son of a mad keen coarse all-rounder Jamie learned to fish on the Kennet, Thames and surrounding gravel pits as a child. His experience developed into specimen hunting with roach his favourite species. After a brief foray into match angling he turned his focus to carp fishing and has spent a decade targeting large carp across the South of England.

As a parent of two young children his time on the bank is now more limited and this has led Jamie to diversify in turning his hand to lure fishing in both salt and freshwater. He describes fly casting as his weakest suit but something he is looking forward to improving.

Jamie has based his career within the commercial sector with over 15 years experience of leading teams and developing brands in the media industry. He views angling as a gateway to the outdoors and is passionate about the benefits and wellbeing fishing can provide to individuals. Jamie is focused on ensuring more people fish more often and that the environments that anglers spend their time within are healthy and diverse.

Tim Goode was born in Beaconsfield, Bucks and has been based in that area ever since although he spends much of his time in Scotland and Cornwall. He went to school in Bucks and University in York and Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked in banking and financial services for his whole career. He is interested in all sorts of fishing but particularly barbel, roach, brown trout (both migratory and non migratory) and Atlantic salmon. He occasionally fishes for carp but having had several years as a serious carp angler now feels it worthwhile to have a life. His angling ambitions are for a double figure UK sea trout and a really big Atlantic salmon. His biggest regret is that on the day he caught his biggest roach he did not use bread as it would then have been a three pounder. His angling heroes are John Ashley Cooper and Richard Walker. His favourite authors are Cormac McCarthy and Robert McFarlane. His ambition for the Angling Trust is to see it having the same size influence and financial clout as the RSPB. His other interests are singing and visiting wild places.

“When I first joined the ACA many years ago it was to support an organization wholly dedicated to standing up for clean rivers and strongly against those who would pollute them. Today the reasons for joining Fish Legal are more compelling than ever. Whilst the recent public and political attention around sewage pollution is overdue and welcome, Fish Legal has been fighting on this and many other fronts for decades. They really do what it says on the tin… make polluters pay.  Since joining the Fish Legal Committee I`ve been hugely impressed by the professionalism and dedication of the team working every day to defend our freshwater environment. They deserve every angler`s support and I consider it a privilege to give my time to the cause”.

After a career in financial services, Phil retired in 2017 and now has more time to give back to the sport he loves. He hopes more of you will join him and help grow the movement for cleaner rivers. A legacy donation, a new membership subscription or just passing on the message to the wider community…all will help in our important work.

“Fish Legal harness the combined resolve of anglers, angling clubs and other angling organisations across the UK to demand the highest environmental standards for our waters, and to hold to account those responsible for the state of the aquatic environment. This benefits anglers, but also other water users, wildlife and the natural beauty that is so dependent on the health and vitality of our waters.”

Charles has been fishing since childhood, with a particular passion for fly fishing on the chalk streams near his home. He travels widely and rarely passes up the opportunity to fish wherever he finds himself. He is also an enthusiastic scuba diver, witnessing first-hand the impact of global warming and pollution on the marine environment.

Charles recently swapped his executive career for the opportunity to run his own sheep farm in West Berkshire and pursue his wider outdoor interests. During a 30-year career at Unilever, he held various senior positions in finance and general management, acquiring a breadth of experience in financial management, accounting and control, business strategy and risk management.

In addition to farming, he is a non-executive director of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Standards Board (FMSB), and a trustee of the Unilever UK Pension Fund, where he chairs the Investment and Funding Committee. He is also is involved with the Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S). Charles is a qualified accountant and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Chemistry from Oxford University.

“At a time when every day brings new threats, Fish Legal puts anglers at the heart of the fight to protect our precious aquatic environment. For me, there’s no better way of celebrating our shared passion for the sport and our deep commitment to preserving the natural word than by supporting the work of Fish Legal, now and for the future.”

Mike’s fishing began on the canals of Holland and the small rivers and ponds of Leicestershire. Since then, he’s fished across the world from India to New Zealand. These days he’s to be found fly fishing on Irish loughs, Midland reservoirs and rivers in the North of England, but he’s just as happy catching tench, pike or pollock. His general incompetence in all branches of the sport is matched only by his stubbornly enduring enthusiasm for it.

Mike brings a career’s worth of communications experience to support Fish Legal. He worked for many years as a producer, presenter and commissioning editor at the BBC, before joining Culture Online, a multi-award-winning Government initiative to engage new audiences with cultural content via New Media. He runs a small production company making films for a range of environmental organisations, for example, and for the UK Parliament Art Collection. He was Director of Communications for Waterloo Uncovered, an archaeological charity that helps the rehabilitation and recovery of military veterans and serving personnel through archaeology.

He’s been governor of a local school and, for nine years, was a non-executive director of the environmental charity The Woodland Trust.