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The Farm Carbon Toolkit (FCT) is an independent, farmer-led enterprise. We support farmers to measure, understand and act on their greenhouse gas emissions while improving their business resilience for the future. We are a practical outfit, experienced and trusted to go down the farm track to support and empower farmers on their journey. We also facilitate peer-to-peer learning and applied research on farm and soil carbon - run the Soil Farmer of the Year Competition - and operate one of the most popular farm carbon calculators in the UK. I have been leading the operational management and helping shape the strategy of FCT as it goes through an exciting period of growth. This includes working with colleagues to create valuable and empowering products and services for farmers and the wider agricultural system, and aspiring to be the number one, trusted, go-to experts on farm and soil carbon.

Exploring the excitement around regenerative agriculture - how valuable and transformational is the framing for organisations across the food and farming sector? This scholarship provides an opportunity to visit farms around the world, to understand how regenerative agriculture is being understood, incentivised and implemented by different farmers. Combining with my previous work at Forum for the Future on this topic, I will explore how taking a deliberate systems approach can help us understand how to bring regenerative agriculture into the mainstream - and if this happens, what might our food system look like then?

London, United Kingdom

Focusing on projects that help create a shift towards a more resilient, sustainable and healthier food system. My work at Forum included the design and facilitation of collaborations with major companies and brands to tackle complex sustainability challenges, plus senior-level one-to-one strategy support with food companies. Areas of focus included livestock and plant proteins, animal feed, edible fats and oils, and regenerative agriculture.

United Kingdom

Combining my experience of running a successful food enterprise with sustainability consultancy, I supported enterprises, mostly in the community food sector, with business planning, sustainability strategy and governance.

Sutton, United Kingdom

London’s most productive community farm, set on a beautiful smallholding overlooking the city. The farm grows a wide range of vegetables distributed in a VegBox scheme for South London and provides a welcoming space for schools and the community to come together and learn about food. My role involved strategic and operational oversight of the business. Achievements include:- Launching the farm's first community share offer, endorsed by the Community Shares Standard.- Reduced grant dependency, moving from 80% to 20% through increased sales.- Doubled the Veg Box customer base.- Created a successful brand that reflects the values of the business. - Designed an educational service offer including the launch of Sutton People's Kitchen, a project providing cook clubs for disadvantaged parents and children. - Changed the legal structure from a limited company to a Community Benefit Society to enable community ownership. - Improving financial security by building a healthy cash reserve.I stayed involved with Sutton Community Farm voluntarily on the Management Committee until April 2018.

London, United Kingdom

Bioregional is an entrepreneurial sustainability charity. I managed and delivered a variety of projects with local government and businesses that included carbon and ecological footprinting studies, community engagement, renewable energy assessment, sustainable water strategies and climate change adaptation studies. When I moved to Kenya for work in 2011, I continued to consult for Bioregional’s International One Planet Communities programme and supported the concept development of oneplanet.com.

Kisumu, Kenya

SteamaCo (formally access:energy) designs, manufactures, and services renewable energy technologies in East Africa. I worked with access:energy during its early inception as a company in a variety of roles, supporting the organisation as it moved through R&D to manufacturing and sales of its first products. This included optimising the technical design and process of building wind turbines, fundraising, marketing and designing client management systems.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

SVC is the largest student-led volunteering charity in the UK and runs around 40 projects in the community with over 1,000 volunteers. Between 2004-2008, I volunteered on various community projects in Cardiff and eventually joined the executive committee where my duties included trustee and chairmanship of the charity, establishing networking links, supporting volunteers and new projects, and giving talks to promote the charity.

New Jersey, Usa

Msc (Distinction), Sustainable Energy And The Environment

Activities and Societies: Student Volunteering Cardiff, Engineers Without Borders, People and Planet, X-press Radio

Beng (1St Class), Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without Borders, People and Planet, Xpress Radio, Jazz Society, Student Volunteering Cardiff

Module, Ecosystem Services

Part-time by distance learning to deepen my understanding about global food security and sustainable food production.

A-Levels, Maths (A), Physics (A), Computing (B), Music Technology (B)

Gcses, 9 At Grade A - C