Future Gardeners Forum, 6 Amazing Speakers Working with Children

This is a webinar we organised on zoom and it streamed to YouTube on 17th January. We had over 1300 emails signed up for it so the interest is very strong. Likewise, the quality of panel here is remarkable.

Lara Honnor @skoolbeanz
Lara worked in my garden through 2017, helping with plantings and harvests. We now chat regularly and there is a lot of mutual inspiration between us.
Lara created Skool Beanz gardening club for primary school children. It runs from two No-Dig allotment plots in her village here in Somerset which she has designed especially for the children. The club runs every Saturday from March to Christmas, with after-school clubs during term time, and extra holiday clubs too.

Jess Creasey @cornwallgrows
I met Jess on a weekend course here last spring. She is a bundle of energy, and is busy simultaneously on so many jobs, including working for local tree surgeons in her town of Bude, on the north coast of Cornwall in England’s far west.
Her project started with £0 and a lot of determination and passion to make her idea become reality. She has become successful at applying for grants to help her project and others grow, so I've asked her to concentrate on that in this all too brief presentation.

Phil Brown, headteacher N Lincs Bottesbourne School
Phil is a school leader who has tried lots of different methods to integrate gardening into education with varying degrees of success.
He is going to outline for us what he did last season and why he thinks the new approach has been more successful.

Sarah Alun-Jones @wearegrow https://www.wearegrow.org
Sarah is an agroecological farmer with 12 years growing experience in both urban and rural settings . She is a co director of GROW, a charity that runs a 6 acre farm that is both a working farm and an educational hub for children and young people. She strongly believes in the power of food and farming to change lives.

Dan Romans-Hay woodyschoolfarm@outlook.com
Dan is a chef by training, currently in Streatham London is in the process of setting up a school market garden, and hopes to incorporate it into the primary school curriculum. Plus he is setting up volunteer groups for the local community, to provide a space to learn and connect with nature and food growing + cooling and eating.

Matt Willer https://www.instagram.com/thepapillonproject/
Founder of The Papillon Project, a charity he started in 2019 that creates allotments for secondary schools, sixth form colleges and pupil referral units in Norfolk. The Papillon Project works with over 30 schools throughout the county with the aim of inspiring teenagers how to grow their own food. For themselves, their school and their community, with the ultimate aim of helping young people to feel more confident about themselves as people.
 Matt wondered if it's alright to mention the accolades he has gathered, and I said it's easier for him if I do that, because he won the RHS School Gardening Champion of the Year in 2018 and was in the King's 2024 New Year's Honours list, awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to young people through The Papillon Project.

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