I’m done – heavyweight entrepreneur quits Eden Project
Tech entrepreneur and environmentalist Adam Beaumont DL has dramatically resigned from his role as a trustee of the Eden Project saying he has no power to shape the new venture in Morecambe.
He said on LinkedIn yesterday (6 March 2023): “I’ve just made a very difficult decision to quit my role as ‘something’.”
He continued: “That’s part of the problem. I’ve been a Trustee of the Eden project for 7 years, with a promise to be the lead for Eden Project Morecambe. I’ve been a passionate environmentalist since my teens.
“However, I’ve been beyond patient. I’ve got no steerage on the matters of Eden Morecambe after several years. What’s starting to become a concern is that many people in the North are seeing me as the lead but I have no exec or governance steerage. So I have all the exposure and also all of the downside without any of the recognition or empowerment (or also empowerment of many of my amazing friends in the North).
“So, from today, I’m done. I can’t work with an organisation who can’t empower me or anyone else to address the project and the underlying cause of Eden – which is why I joined – which is to create key interventions to climate change.”
In reply to one of the many messages he received Beaumont, founder and chairman of communications specialist, aql said: “Eden Morecambe will be amazing for the region and driving it to completion will be the right fit for someone. Sadly not me at this juncture.”
How Eden North in Morecambe will look
In 2023 Morecambe secured the full £50m of levelling up funding it sought for Eden Project Morecambe, a planned eco-tourism project development.
The bid submitted in August 2022 has been 10 years in the making and marks the most significant investment into the Lancashire seaside resort in decades.
They claim around 300 high-quality green jobs will be directly created by the renamed Eden Project Morecambe, plus more than 1,000 additional new jobs supported in the region.
Annual visitor numbers are projected to be 740,000 and additional revenue brought into local businesses is set to exceed the £50m Government investment within months of the project opening.
Eden Project Morecambe will be situated on the central promenade of Morecambe, on the former site of the Bubbles leisure complex with the Grade II* listed Winter Gardens and Midland Hotel its near neighbours. The project has been designed in a way which is sensitive and complementary to these important buildings and sightlines across the Bay.
