Click the links or scroll down to see the team’s bios

Save Our Shoreline Jersey Main Committee

Other Roles

Michael du Pré

Chair - Michael du Pré
Michael du Pré – Chair  and Finance & Accountancy Advisor

Michael du Pré, retired and married with two daughters and five grandchildren, divides his time between Jersey and  the UK. He is a retired Chartered Accountant having served his Articles to Henry Peat of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &Co (now KPMG) in the City and worked with them until moving to Beecham Group. Michael worked as a senior executive with Beecham which, through mergers evolved into SmithKline Beecham and finally GSK (the largest pharmaceutical company in the UK) and ended his career working directly for the Group Global Financial Director where, inter-alia, he headed up and successfully delivered a mega million pound 5 year project to set up a data collection, consolidation and reporting system for the Group world wide.

Michael was a Vice President in the company for many years, working at all operational levels. Based in the UK he travelled extensively and worked and lived in Germany with his family for 12 years as a European Financial Director of 37 companies. Michael has been with SOSJ since 2011, bringing his  wealth of expertise to the organisation, and has been Chair for the last year. Back

Dave Cabeldu

Contact Dave Cabeldu

Dave Cabeldu, MBE – Co-ordinator and Researcher

Dave Cabeldu was educated at Victoria College and then went to art college in the UK.  He has co-ordinated SOS Jersey since 1986 when it was originally a Havre des Pas group*.  Dave was widowed in 2020, having been married to Elaine for 49 years.  He has lived in St. Clement since 1981.

Dave’s background is in youth work, music and graphic design. He founded Sounds Workshop (now St James Youth Centre) and sat on the Management committee  for 20 years. This is now a thriving rehearsal, recording and performance venue for young people. He is a guitarist and taught music before opening a successful music shop (East Coast Music) with friend Chris Bellée  and then later ran a graphic design company. Since 2011 he has worked full time on SOSJ issues as they have intensified due in large part to the mistakes of previous administrations.

Dave was made an MBE in the 2019 New Year’ Honours list, ‘for services to the preservation of Jersey’s heritage and environment.”

* This group was formed in order to request the States of Jersey to make the bay an SSSI (as the area then had no special protection). 12,000 signatures, a States debate, and nine years later, it became part of  Jersey’s newly designated south-east coast Ramsar Area. Back

Benita Brett

Benita Brett SOSJ
Planning and Stats

From Halkett Place School, Benita won an Open Scholarship to Jersey College for Girls.  She was a contemporary of Dave Cabeldu, sharing his love of music and, living on the Samares Coast Road, the foreshore.  Her father’s work led to her moving from Jersey to the mainland whilst studying for A Levels.  In 2010 she learned of the work Dave was doing, became a subscriber to SOSJ and thanks to the availability of technology was able to offer her drafting, proofing and number crunching skills.   Working as she did as PA to the Legal and Compliance Director of a FTSE 100 company, specialising in property matters, she gained considerable experience which has stood SOSJ in good stead.

On retirement, she returned to Jersey and works as support to Dave. Back

Ed Lamond

Ed Lamond - Finance and Economic Advisor
Ed Lamond – Finance and Economic Advisor

Ed Lamond retired to Jersey with his wife Darna. They have a large  family residing in both Jersey and the UK. Born in Calcutta, Ed has resided in eight countries, india, Tanganyika, Kenya, Jersey, Australia, England, Hong Kong and the USA, yet has managed to spend 24 years in his home Island. His career in investment analysis began in London in the 1970s. He has been a partner in WI Carr, a London-based stockbroker with sizeable interests in Far Eastern stockmarkets.

Ed was MD in Swiss Bank Corporation’s Far Eastern stockbroking and investment banking subsidiary –  the equivalent of an executive director in the Bank itself. He was also an executive director in Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Barclays Bank’s then stockbroking and investment banking subsidiary. Ed’s expertise has been invaluable especially since SOSJ widened their interests as the Waterfront has developed and the States of Jersey Development Company have come into being. Back

Jacqui Carrel

Jacqui Carrel - Environmental Science Adviser and Webmaster
Jacqui Carrel – Environmental Science Advisor and Webmaster

Contact Jacqui Carrel – jc@sosjersey.co.uk Jacqui Carrel is our specialist on sea lettuce. A Jersey lady, but living on and off in Europe and the UK, she had returned to St Brelade. Her 2.1 (hons) degree was in Environmental Science. Jacqui taught Science for many years, including at Jersey College for Girls; she has also taught psychology, ICT and English.

Jacqui is partner in the Jersey-based website, marketing and publishing business Cinnamon Edge, so we’re pleased to have her on board to run the website and help prepare reports along with her science input. She also jointly looks after the SOSJ Facebook page which now has 4,000 members. She is a keen photographer, particularly of Jersey’s beautiful coastline – Click here to see some examples at ‘Jacqui Carrel Photography’ on Facebook.  Back