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As a constituted Society, SABRE has a number of Elected Officers - collectively termed the management - who look after the Society and its website. They are elected in our annual elections in Spring each year. On this page, you can find out more about these people, what they do for you, and how you can get in touch with them.

Previous Management teams, going right back to 2001 are listed on a separate page.

President

The President serves as a neutral figure, mainly to administer SABRE's elections and other votes and, if needed, adjudicate in disputes between members. Since the President runs elections, he or she cannot take part in them, and therefore each election must see a new President elected. The full list of the President's duties is in the Constitution.


Matthew Cockburn (exiled)

Matthew's official e-mail address is president@sabre-roads.org.uk.

Secretary

The Secretary serves as Sabre's Documentation Officer, accounting directly to the President and also maintains the Voting Members Register. If for any reason the President is unable to run an election, the Secretary takes over the responsibility and for this reason became an elected position at the start of the 2020/21 term.

Serena Torz (Sabrista)

Serena's unique claim to fame is that she was the first active female member of SABRE. She was the moderator of the first SABRE Chatroom.


Site Manager

The Site Manager is responsible for the day to day running of the SABRE website and, in particular, the discussion forums. This includes moderating the boards, welcoming new members and promoting the discussion group. These tasks and others are shared with the Assistant Site Managers, though the Site Manager takes greater responsibility for them. The full list of the Site Manager's duties is in the Constitution.

You can contact the Site Management Team using the Contact form.

Owen Rudge (orudge)

Owen joined SABRE in 2007, and has previously served as Assistant Site Manager in 2012-2013 and 2018-2019, plus as an appointed developer since 2011. He has also run a site and forum related to the game "Transport Tycoon" for the past couple of decades.

Assistant Site Managers

The Assistant Site Managers have the same responsibilities as the Site Manager (above) - usually the Site Management Team decides how best to share out the responsibilities, and this differs from year to year. The full list of the Assistant Site Manager's duties is in the Constitution.

You can contact the Site Management Team using the Contact form

Les Hughes (Big L)

Les has been a member of SABRE for almost 10 years and this is his first official role. He lives in Staffordshire but work takes him around most of the country averaging about 40k miles each year. Single, overweight, 40-something Wolves season ticket holder, also enjoys going to motor racing, rugby and cricket. Loves a good glass of whisky.

Alex Cameron (FosseWay)

Ritchie Swann (Ritchie333)

Ritchie has been on SABRE since 2003, and has previously served as President and as part of the SABRE Maps team.

Treasurer

The Treasurer, as you would expect, looks after SABRE's finances. Principally this involves collecting voluntary donations from members, administering the bank account and making sure costs for domain names and web hosting are paid.

Paul Martin (nowster)

Paul's official e-mail address is treasurer@sabre-roads.org.uk.

Paul has been a member of SABRE since August 2004, and became Treasurer in 2009. He is also SABRE's IT manager, having day-to-day responsibility for the upkeep of the SABRE server.

Elected Committee Members

In addition to the Elected Officers, at the annual elections in Spring each year, several members of SABRE are elected to serve on the SABRE Committee. Their role is to oversee the Elected Officers, and to act as a point of reference and guidance to the Elected and Appointed Officers.

For the 2022/2023 term, there are three extra Elected Committee Members due to a number of SMT being re-elected at the Election; these are additional to the minimum number of three..

Owain Wright (Owain)

Dr Owain Wright is Senior Lecturer in European History at Leeds Beckett University, where he specialises in the modern and contemporary history of Italy. He joined SABRE in 2009 and was first appointed to the Committee in 2016. Since then, he has served two full terms as President, coordinated and/or participated in a dozen Roadtrips and Awayday events, and contributed frequently to the Photo of the Month competition. He has also written various contributions on the Wiki, especially with regard to Irish roads.

Simon Davies (M4Simon)

Simon has been a member of SABRE since 2002 and has previously served as Site Manager and Secretary. He is a highway engineer and is particularly interested in the mapping and history of Britain's road network.

Chris Hillcoat (ChrisH)

Chris Saunders (A303Chris)

Chris joined SABRE in 2005 and has been interested in roads and maps since he was a child and has a collection of over 700 maps. He has been employed in Transport Planning and Highway Engineering for over 30 years and away from his job/hobby he is a keen cyclist, golfer and football supporter.

Bryn Buck (Bryn666)

Appointed Officers

Each year the President appoints a number of volunteers to assist with various parts of SABRE. These posts can change annually with the needs of the Society.

These are the 2021-22 officers:


SABRE Developers

Paul Martin (nowster)
Andy Boal (AndyB)
Owen Rudge (orudge)
Tim (ForestChav)
Rob Baker (Frediculous_biggs)
Ritchie Swann (Ritchie333)

Server Manager

Paul Martin (nowster)

Deputy Server Manager

Owen Rudge (orudge)

Deputy Treasurer

Chris Marshall (Chris5156)

Social Media Admin

Manomay Lala-Raykar (ManomayLR)
Bryn Buck (Bryn666)
Glen Wallace (Glen)
Rachel Harper (Rachandsarai)

SABRE Wiki Admin

Chris (c2R)
Steven Jukes (Steven)
James Bancroft (Truvelo)

SABRE Maps Co-ordinator

Steven Jukes (Steven)

Maps Team

Chris (c2R)

Photo of the Month Co-ordinator

Tim (ForestChav)

Roadtrip, Awayday and e-meeting co-ordinators

No Nominations this year

SABRE Gallery Curator

Owain (Owain)
Glen Wallace (Glen)

Committee

The current list of committee members may be viewed here. Committee is made up of the Elected Officers, Elected Committee Members, Appointed Officers, and the previous year's Elected Officers who are currently:

Robert Baker (frediculous_biggs)
Richard Macer-Wright (RichardA35)


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