Sarah Tibbatts Email & Phone Number

• Working on volunteering and public engagement projects on the tidal Thames and its tributaries all across London
• Leading groups of corporate and public volunteers on river clean-ups and waterway restoration workdays
• Public engagement and consultation events with diverse communities and all ages eg Isle of Dogs River Festival, Thames Tidefest, London Rivers Week, Thames Connections Project
• Citizen science partnership events eg Thames River Watch, Big Wet Wipe Count
• Assisting on integrated consultation, restoration, volunteering and citizen science projects across London, eg Silk Stream Flood Resilience Innovation Project, Restoring Enfield’s Rivers, Craywatch Project

• Leading on development of volunteering across all parks and open spaces in the borough
• Worked collaboratively with colleagues across the Parks and Countryside teams to embed a new strategy, utilising best practice from a cohort of 9 cities in the Future Parks programme, mentored by National Trust
• Trained and supported staff to enable them to confidently manage volunteers, incorporating best practice from a cohort of 9 cities in the national Future Parks Accelerator programme, mentored by National Trust
• Managed change eg aligning policies and procedures following merger of 3 councils, implementing CRM system
• Capacity built Friends and Community Groups to empower them to contribute to managing open spaces, including problem solving, co-creating agreements and work plans
• Developed tools for planning support, monitoring and evaluation of impacts

• Volunteer engagement, practical wildlife conservation
• Covid Mutual Aid Lewisham organiser - co-ordinator of 70 volunteers providing assistance to vulnerable people, resulting in a Lewisham Mayor’s Award
• Conservation projects with London Wildlife Trust, Brockley Cross Action Group, Street Trees for LivingInternational countryside access development
• Worked on community-led regional trail creation project in Spain - the Camiño Real: marking 50km trail, editing and translating materials for guidebooks, websites and apps, liaising with local people and bloggers.
• Volunteered with South London Cares providing online social events and tech support for isolated elderly people
• Studied mental health, facilitation and coaching at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

• Engagement programme management for innovative conservation charity
• Managed and evaluated the Investing In Londoners £100K programme of training, leisure learning, events and consultancy, increasing participation by over 20% in 1 year. Completed project to targets and on budget.
• Marketing the project - website, social media, developed collaborations with influencers and national events
• Multimedia interpretation projects, planned and led training sessions and guided walks
• Developed new partnerships to diversify volunteering with Toynbee Hall and Muslim Aid
• Initiated, co-created and fundraised for £22K partner project with Grounded Ecotherapy integrating site improvements with vocational training for volunteers with mental ill-health and lived experience of homelessness

• Conservation projects involving corporate volunteers in practical habitat management
• Led groups of employees of major banks and companies working on nature reserves across London

• Delivered practical and theoretical training for the hospitality sector
• Trained over 900 agency events staff, including individual feedback and coaching, assessing to industry standards for immediate deployment to clients eg Raymond Blanc, BAFTA Awards, Royal Ascot

• Involved volunteers in practical habitat management projects across South London and Surrey
• Recruited and trained volunteers, monitored wellbeing impacts
• Planned and led workdays for local and corporate volunteers, produced project reports

(now Sustainable Harvest)

• Business administration for charity and social enterprise driving fair trade across 17 countries
• Finance and operations administration for international development projects and bulk coffee trading
• Assisted on successful £617K bid to Comic Relief in partnership with RSPB - the Gola Rainforest Cocoa Project

• Business administration for international development social enterprise working across 5 countries
• Finance, operations and compliance administration for farmer empowerment and supply chain audit

• Social research on community perceptions of flood risk and coastal management
• Recruited stakeholders to a pilot study, conducted and analysed interviews

• Included 6 months on full time placements on community farm in Kent and RSPB reserves in Scotland and Ireland
• Public engagement, habitat management, livestock husbandry, ecological survey
• Experience included farmland in HLS, wetland, wet woodland, dunes, grazing marsh, seabird colony

• Interim assignments with central government departments and executive agencies
• Managed internal communications, organised conferences and stakeholder engagement

• Organisational development for unitary authority employing 18,000 people
• Facilitated quality standards, audit case studies, awards, consultations, staff recognition, internal communications

• Managed creation of fine crafts business incubator centre in partnership with The Prince’s Trust
• Managed relationships with architects and builders during £2M refurbishment, marketed and let units
• After opening, managed team of 4 staff and 1 intern, facility and budgets, supported over 40 new businesses

• Managed visitor and education centre on urban Local Nature Reserve
• Developed and marketed education, arts and wellbeing programme, centre hire, café
• Developed and fundraised for partnership community projects eg sculpture trail with ActionSpace

Ba Hons Classics

Msc Environmental Management (Countryside And Protected Area Management)

Post Graduate Certificate In Education With Qualified Teacher Status

Trinity Certificate In Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages

Education record