Our Team

We are here to help!

• UK & Head Office (For questions about membership, media enquiries, to talk to senior managers or to ask about hiring our meeting room at the GreenHouse, plus any general enquiries).
• England
• Scotland
• Wales
• Northern Ireland

You can also get details of staff working on specific projects and partnership initiatives:

• Community Land Advisory Service (CLAS aims to help both landowners and community growers to bring more land into community cultivation). 
• School Farms Network (The School Farms Network supports and offers assistance to school farms and promotes outdoor learning).

UK & Head Office

Head Office:
The GreenHouse, Hereford Street, Bristol BS3 4NA
Tel: 0117 923 1800
Email: admin@farmgarden.org.uk
 

• Chris Blythe, Director: chris@farmgarden.org.uk
• Heidi Seary, Operations Manager: heidi@farmgarden.org.uk
• Angie Stratton, Finance Manager: angie@farmgarden.org.uk
• Jennie Reed, Communications Coordinator: jennie@farmgarden.org.uk 
• Diane Godwin, Membership Services Coordinator: diane@farmgarden.org.uk
• Rachel Bragg, Development Coordinator: rachel@farmgarden.org.uk
• Deborah Evans, Development Coordinator: deborah@farmgarden.org.uk
• Carmel Ferguson, SF&G Administrator: admin@farmgarden.org.uk
• Suzanne Haynes, HR and Finance Administrator: suzanne@farmgarden.org.uk
• Alison Sheffield, Business Development Coordinator: alison@farmgarden.org.uk
• Sophie Antonelli, Gardens of Sanctuary Coordinator: sophie@farmgarden.org.uk

Our Trustees

Our Board of Trustees includes people with a wealth of experience in a broad range of areas in community based farming, gardening and growing. See Our Trustees page here

England

London

Amber Alferoff, London Project Officer: amber@farmgarden.org.uk or london@farmgarden.org.uk

For the rest of England
Tel: 0117 923 1800; Email: admin@farmgarden.org.uk

Scotland

scotland@farmgarden.org.uk

• Louisa Evans, Scotland Development Worker: lou@farmgarden.org.uk
• Karen Davidson, Scotland Advisor: karen@farmgarden.org.uk

Wales

South Wales Office

46 Ninian Park Road, Riverside, Cardiff CF11 6JA
Tel: 02920 225942
wales@farmgarden.org.uk

• Gary Mitchell, Joint Wales Manager: gary@farmgarden.org.uk
• Nicola Perkins, Join Wales Manager: nicola@farmgarden.org.uk
• Amy Hoidge Hughes, Wales Administrator: wales@farmgarden.org.uk
• Meggie Rogers, Wales Communications Officer: meggie@farmgarden.org.uk
• Lisa Williams, South Wales Development Worker: lisa@farmgarden.org.uk

North Wales office

Tel: 07910498762

• Sarah Collick, North Wales Development Worker: sarah@farmgarden.org.uk 
• Sara Wynne-Pari, Business & Marketing Advisor, sara@farmgarden.org.uk

Northern Ireland

c/o Friends of the Earth, 7 Donegall Street Place, Belfast BT1 2FN

Tel : 07725699442

• Patricia Wallace, Northern Ireland Development Coordinator: patricia@farmgarden.org.uk
• Miriam Turley, Growing Resilience Project Coordinator: miriam@farmgarden.org.uk 
• Conor O'Kane, Growing Resilience Project Coordinator (Derry/Londonderry): conor@farmgarden.org.uk

Community Land Advisory Service

For general enquiries to CLAS Cymru, email: wales@communitylandadvice.org.uk and for CLAS Scotland: scotland@communitylandadvice.org.uk or refer to the CLAS website at www.communitylandadvice.org.uk

School Farms Network

For general enquiries please contact schoolfarms@farmgarden.org.uk or refer to the School Farms Network website at www.schoolfarms.org.uk

Allotments Enquiries

For general allotments enquiries go to the National Allotment Society: https://www.nsalg.org.uk

Tel: 01536 266576. Email: natsoc@nsalg.org.uk

Allotment Mentor Coordinator - Di Appleyard: diane@nsalg.org.uk