21 Facts About Dale Vince

Dale Vince was born on 29 August 1961 and is a British green energy industrialist.

Dale Vince creates artificial diamonds using carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and renewable energy.

Dale Vince was appointed OBE in 2004 and received an honorary degree in 2013.

Dale Vince faced a financial claim court case from his ex-wife, which was settled in 2016.

Dale Vince has donated to both the Labour Party and the Green Party and endorsed politicians from both parties in general elections.

Dale Vince was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the second of three children to parents who ran a Fenland haulage firm.

When RAF Molesworth was chosen to become a base for the US Air Force's mobile nuclear armed Ground Launched Cruise Missile in 1980, Dale Vince occupied the nuclear base in protest.

In 2010, Dale Vince became a major shareholder of Forest Green Rovers FC, and three months later was appointed club chairman.

Dale Vince introduced a number of different eco-friendly developments at the club including the installation of solar panels on its New Lawn home ground, the use of a solar-powered robot grass mower, and the creation of the world's first organic football pitch.

In September 2015, Dale Vince revealed Forest Green were using a player recruitment method similar to the 'Moneyball' model that had been initially used in baseball to sign players by using computer-generated analysis.

Dale Vince was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year Honours for "services to the Environment and to the Electricity Industry".

Dale Vince commented that the case had been "a terrible waste of time and money".

Dale Vince stated the settlement barely covered Wyatt's legal fees which he had already paid prior to the settlement.

Dale Vince married Kate Lane, who worked at Ecotricity, in 2006; they have a son.

Dale Vince has made donations to both the Labour Party and the Green Party.

Dale Vince endorsed the Labour Party in the 2019 general election.

Dale Vince has made donations to various Labour Party MPs, as well as environmental protest groups, such as Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Dale Vince said the West's position in relation to Palestine "stands in stark contradiction to 'our' claims to moral superiority, civilization and democratic values".

On Times Radio, in the immediate aftermath of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Dale Vince stated that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" when asked about Hamas.

Dale Vince said his remark was taken from a doctored video clip and that, in the same interview, he had agreed that Hamas were terrorists and Israel had a right to defend itself.

In July 2024, Dale Vince sued ownership of the political blog Guido Fawkes for libel, claiming that the site implied he supported Hamas by circulating a clip of the Times Radio interview that featured only the "freedom fighter" remark with no additional context.