Meet the Committee

"Hi! I’m Arthur, I live in the West Midlands, and I’ve been geocaching since March 2010. I’ve seen so much whilst caching, and have been to so many new places, which is what I love most about it. I’ve had some great experiences ‒ from heading underground, to caching by boat, and everything in between! I love going on long walks… there’s nothing better than a good series! It’s always great to come across a quality cache, whether that’s a well-stocked ammo box or a creative hide, and I often decide where to go based on the number of favourite points a cache or series has obtained. I was first elected onto the GAGB committee in December 2015, and held a number of different roles over five years, prior to being elected as Chair in 2020. During my time in this post, we introduced regional representatives and increased the number of active members for the first time in half a decade. After serving as Secretary for the past two years, I am honoured to be returning to the role of Chair. I look forward to seeing what we can achieve for the GAGB and geocaching in the months ahead."

"Hi! I’m Lewis and cache under the name NevilleDog_n_Humans having started in early 2017. I live in Telford, Shropshire with my wife and three dogs (Neville the rescue, Luna the Springer Spaniel and Lilly the Springer Cross). I have cached across the whole of the UK having been drawn by high DTs and unique caches. I have completed my DT grid four times to date. I love being outside in the countryside and away weekends or longer trips away in our campervan. In my spare time I run the UK Geocoin Database and love collecting shiny trackable geocoins. I look forward to meeting up with you soon at a mega or whilst out caching."

"I am Border Caz because I live very close to the border with North Wales so my 'local' caching adventures have taken me backwards and forwards across the border many times, indeed 10 of the 109 caches I have owned have been in Wales and I have an Adventure Lab there as well. My real name is Caroline but many people call me Caz for short. I am a widow and now mostly retired from paid employment; I have two grown up children and a female Lurcher called Jet, who likes going out for walks in the country. In 2011 I was one of the founding members of the committee which planned and brought to fruition the 2013 West Midlands UK Mega. I acted as Treasurer on that Committee and was happy to take on the same role on the GAGB committee when I joined it in December 2016, as I have a background in finance from my working life. I found my first caches in July 2009 but I’m not a numbers chaser so only have 11,000+ finds under my belt. Particular favourites of mine are those based on history and I do enjoy many urban caches for that reason. There’s something very satisfying about completing a multi in a town or city and I also enjoy Wherigos and Adventure Labs. My other hobby is travelling around in my campervan and I find the two activities complement each other very well and often overlap, both take me to interesting places and have a good social scene where I have made many good friends. I have converted quite a few muggle campervanners to geocaching."

"I’m Chris of Saza36. My daughter started geocaching early in 2009 with the Scouts and we signed up and have been active ever since. I have always enjoyed walking and have been lucky to work around the globe caching wherever I go. To-date I have cached in 41 countries. Now retired, I used to work as an IT consultant specialising in Customer Value Management and have technical, commercial and managerial skills that I can bring to bear. I served on the 2013 UK Mega committee and was appointed to the GAGB Committee in 2020 to assist with the design and build of the new website. A significant number of hours were spent on this development by a small hard-working team and it was a pleasure to be involved. In 2021 I was coopted onto the Committee and subsequently elected as Chair. I look forward to remaining on the committee and hope that we can promote the value of the GAGB and grow the membership."

"I was introduced to geocaching in 2009 by a German puzzle solver, whose sister lived next door. I liked the idea of puzzle caches then, and still do, both solving and setting. I also like to walk in the countryside while finding caches, and prefer quality to quantity. I also support Opencaching UK. I have found caches in N.America, Africa, Asia and Australia, as well as Europe. I worked in commercial aviation before retiring (mostly) 8 years ago. I worked in Qatar for 2 years, very different caching in 4WD vehicles over the sand dunes and rocks, in temperatures exceeding 50C. I still have some active caches there. In Somerset, I've been a Geocaching Advisor to Somerset Wildlife Trust, and compiled their Landowner Agreement. On the Somerset Levels, I have also been Geocaching Advisor to Natural England, and the RSPB. I also developed the new Forestry England West Landowner Agreement. I've been a GAGB Friend, and Area Rep since 2018. My other hobbies include quizzes, being the quizmaster at my local for the past 7 years, golf and playing music."

"I first started caching in 2010. When I was on a ramble I saw someone with a GPS, and me being nosey asked what it was and what she was doing. “It’s a GPS and I am looking for a geocache” she said. So a little google search later to find out more, and that was that. Something great to keep my son interested on walks when he was young. Little did I know then, how caching has affected my life now. What sort of cacher am I? The only thing I am not, is a FTF hound. Although I do have a few. I like to challenge myself, so challenge caches are right up my street. Another aspect of this is the D/T grid. It took me ages to fill the grid once, getting the next loop was easier. I am now on loop 14 getting close to 15. Always something new to learn. The biggest and hardest thing I have learnt is tree climbing. It’s amazing how many caches there are up trees nowadays. Those puzzle caches are another thing, I am always learning new codes, or ways of manipulating something on the cache page. Fast forward to now. I met Jaynie15 (Jayne) my partner through caching, although it was a number of years before we actually got together. I spent a lot of time on the Devon Mega committee, but had to come off it a little before the event. For the past year I have been managing the GAGB online shop, which has been great fun."

"Hi! I’m Joe aka joe222s. I live by the seaside in the East of England. I have only been caching since 2019, but it has taken over my life! My husband and I can be found most weekends in a field or a random small village hunting for small plastic pots. I have 4 children and 6 grandchildren and when they phone me they are never surprised anymore that I am under a bush or up a tree. I work shifts at a car manufacturing company, so I will try and get back to you as soon as I can. I also love an event and I love meeting people so feel free to come up to me and have a chat."

"I’m Bev Bradley and go by the caching name Firefox.3. I’ve been caching since 2011 and have cached regularly ever since. My caching companion has a reputation that precedes him, my grumpy, anti-social Jack Russell, Ted, is known and avoided by many! I’ve hidden over 500 caches, set nearly 100 puzzles and held numerous events including camping weekend events. I organised the Friday Night A’fayre events and the Yorkshire Christmas Fayres as well as other events over the years. I really enjoy the social side of caching and have attended over 225 events so far. I had my wings clipped for several years due to needing new knees, but I am now a bionic woman and have a new lease of life, and boy, am I going to make the most of it! I’m an admin for the Yorkshire Geocaching FB group and I also set up and run the Geocaching By Bike, UK FB group. I was a committee member for the Yorkshire UK Mega 2018 and took on many roles, from organising and arranging the Mega venue to the evening events, the entertainment, caterers, themes, promotional items for the shop, decorations, clothing, vendors, etc. The UK Mega’s are fantastic events which I hope will continue for many more years. One of my other passions is travelling in my motorhome, which is great for combining with caching. Ted and I spent 3 months travelling Belgium and France this year. We also managed to fit in the MK UK Mega and Piratemania as well as 2 months caching our way up to Scotland. What can I bring to the GAGB? Enthusiasm for our hobby along with a passion for getting people involved, organisational skills and ideas for promoting the GAGB to UK cachers to encourage them to use and support the GAGB. I’m looking forward to meeting old and new friends along the way.."

"Having started caching 2011, I have been active in all aspects of caching since then. Event organiser and in the last few years heavily involved with both the SideTracked series and South Derbyshire Geocaching. As a caching team with my 2 children - I’m a keen believer in involving them in the joys of getting out and about and seeing the countryside and also historic locations. By the medium of geocaching we have seen the mountains of wales as well as interesting parts of London and also abroad with places in Europe and America as well. The technology aspect also intrigues me and i have several caches that use technology either In setting or finding the cache at the end of it. I see the adventure labs as a new found opportunity to place caches in areas that would not allow a physical cache or would cause undue panic or alarm. Being able to set the direction of geocaching in the uk and supporting people in getting more out of it is what I would like to do."