Annual Sir Crispin Tickell Memorial Lecture 2026 - Jeremy Leggett
Fri 11 Sept
|St Mary's Church
EVENT TICKETS ARE FREE: 6:00pm Drinks & 6:30:pm - The Inaugural Sir Crispin Tickell Memorial Lecture.
Time & Location
11 Sept 2026, 18:00 – 19:00
St Mary's Church, Church Rd, Bibury, Cirencester GL7 5NR, UK
Guests
About The Event
The annual Sir Crispin Tickell Memorial Lecture allows a distinguished expert to explore issues relating to the environment, conservation and sustainability in the light of climate change.
Jeremy Leggett is a British social entrepreneur, writer, and winner of the 2025 Blue Planet Prize. He founded and was a board director of Solarcentury from 1997 to 2020, an international solar solutions company, and founded SolarAid, a charity funded with 5% of Solarcentury's annual profits that helps solar-lighting entrepreneurs get started in Africa (2006–2020). SolarAid’s retail brand SunnyMoney was for a time Africa's top-seller of solar lighting, having sold well over a million solar lights, all profits recycled to the cause of eradicating the kerosene lantern from Africa. He founded and is CEO of Highlands Rewilding, a pioneering nature-recovery company, since 2020.
Leggett won the US Climate Institute's Award for Advancing Understanding in 1996, he is winner of the first Hillary Laureate for International Leadership in…