COMMUNITY
Our Founder, Richard Clarke, is a Board Member with both The Sleep Charity and Mind Wellbeing. He is a Trustee of Tickhill Community Connections, a charity supporting socially isolated people in the village of Tickhill, Doncaster.
Our Founder was previously a Board Member the Key Fund - South Yorkshire, Urban Options (USA) and the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation (USA).
Richard has volunteered his time to advise and support a number of organisations including: DB4C (Doncaster Business for the Community), Fuel Change - Net Zero Accelerator, Earthself, DARTs (Doncaster Community Arts), See It Be It Sheffield, the Beyond Borders Festival and St Mary's Church Tickhill - Restoration Appeal.
Richard is an advisor to the Lord Lieutenancy with respect to King's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development category. The King's Award for Enterprise is the most prestigious 'society to business' award in the United Kingdom. He also advises the local authority, Doncaster City Council, on sustainable land use.
Causes Supported during 2025
1. The Sleep Charity
2. Active Fusion
3. Mind Wellbeing
4. Tickhill Community Connections
5. YWCA Yorkshire
6. The Great Reserve
7. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
8. The RSPB
9. The National Trust
10. The Stroke Association
11. Saving Wildcats (Scotland)
12. The RSPCA
13. Tickhill Hedgehog Rescue
14. Windy Ridge Bird Rescue
15. The Orangutan Foundation
16. Resolute, Support for Survivors of Domestic Abuse
17. Community Security Trust, Protecting UK Synagogues and Jewish Schools
Causes Supported during 2024
1. Tickhill Hedgehog Rescue
2. Tickhill Community Connections
3. Doncaster's Participatory Arts
Programme (DARTS)
4. Edible Forest Garden,
Traquair House Charitable Trust
5. Food Forest,
Talladh-a-Bheithe Estate
6. Floral Rewilding,
Rothiemurchus Estate
7. Nottinghamshire [Bird] Ringers
8. Beyond Borders Festival,
Traquair, Scotland
9. The Sleep Charity
10. Windy Ridge Bird Rescue
11. Stand-Up to Cancer
12. Breast Cancer Now
13. The National Trust
14. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
15. RSPCA
16. Mind Wellbeing
17. Salvation Army, Christmas Toy Appeal
Causes Supported 2021-2023
1. Fuel Change, Net Zero Accelerator
2. Highlands Outdoor and Wilderness
Learning (HOWL)
3. Doncaster Businesses for
the Community (DB4C)
4. Cancer Treatment for Autumn
5. Cash for Kids, Hallam FM
6. MacMillan Cancer Relief
7. East Kent Hospital Charity
8. Holocaust Education Trust
9. MENCAP
10. The National Trust
Fundraising by Richard Clarke, Founder of Highland Carbon
Pre 2021
1. Mercy Ships, Coastal Africa
2. Bransby Home for Horses
3. National Holocaust Centre
4. Brainwave (special needs)
5. Lincoln Cathedral, restoration
6. Lincoln Cathedral, music
7. Tickhill St Mary's Church
8. The Woodland Trust
9. The Nature Conservancy
10. Michigan State University
11. North Carolina State University
12. Clean Water Action
13. Environmental Defense
14. Michigan United Conservation Clubs
15. The Recyclers, pioneering Curbside Recycling
Examples of the projects and activities that we have supported can be seen in the drop down menu.
