PACT is made up of enthusiastic volunteers from across Penrith & Eden. We're from all walks of life, united by our shared passion for our environment.

Virginia was involved in the initial setting up of PACT (Senior Lectureship in university took her elsewhere for a few years) then again as Director until 2019. Then the ambitious Climate Emergency Declaration planned to launch the new administration at Eden District Council became reality. The 4 party alliance made a meaningful contribution to carbon reduction in through those 4 years, not least Voreda House which is  ‘the first council office retrofit to the EnerPHit standard in the UK and offers valuable lessons for similar typologies’. https://ggbec.co.uk/portfolio/voreda-house-the-uks-first-council-office-enerphit/ . Virginia hopes her local government experience will enable PACT to press buttons to make significant carbon reduction changes locally. Her PhD thesis is ‘Ballerinas in the Church Hall’, she teaches Tai Chi, Feldenkrais, and does some dancing still.