The executive director of an environmental charity is understood to have been made redundant.

Jonathan Starling, one of Greenrock’s two full-time staff, is believed to have parted company with the charity.

The move is thought to have been made on cost grounds as not enough funds could be raised to sustain the role.

Mr Starling declined to comment yesterday, but the board of directors of Greenrock is expected to release a statement in the next few days.

The organisation’s website said it was an “exceptionally lean charity” focused on “environmental education and wider sustainability issues”.

Although the site said Greenrock’s only full-time employee was an “executive administrator”, a school programme manager has since been added to the team. Mr Starling has listed his work at Greenrock under “previous” on his LinkedIn professional networking webpage.

His job with Greenrock was listed from November 2015, to this month. The site also lists Mr Starling as an “urban studies researcher” at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University from 2012 to the present.

Mr Starling obtained a Master of Science degree in planning, from Heriot-Watt, which is based in Edinburgh.

Mr Starling’s profile also listed him as the owner of Catch A Fire, “Bermuda’s most popular blog for political and current affairs, from a leftist perspective”.

Included in his background is work as an aquarist at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, time as an economist for Forest Research in the UK and a stint as child poverty researcher for the Scottish Government.

Greenrock’s website said Mr Starling was “in charge of the day-to-day management of the organisation” and had responsibility for all its programmes and projects. The charity’s mission statement is to “engage the community to share solutions for a sustainable Bermuda” and promotes education to “encourage respect for the environment in people of all ages”.

Greenrock was asked for comment, but a spokeswoman said a statement would be issued “in due course”.