Shereen Chung-Blake, Future Gardeners Programme Coordinator

Shereen Chung-Blake, API-Hort, joined the Future Gardeners team as Programme Coordinator in 2023 and works alongside Louisa Mansfield the Programme manager in the delivery of the Future Gardeners Programme.  The programme has won two industry recognised awards from The Royal Parks Guild and the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and has supported more than 300 students since the course began in 2016.

Shereen Chung-Blake is the Future Gardeners Program Coordinator and Safeguarding Lead at BOST.  A PGCE qualified teacher and senior leader with seventeen years experience in education and a BA Hon(s) in Marketing, Shereen transitioned into the Horticulture Industry just over two years ago after founding a community garden and allotment in her local area and then deciding to pursue qualifications in Practical Horticulture, Environment Conservation and Sustainability and completing an RHS Bursary Study Tour exploring Community Gardening in Housing Developments across Scotland.

Pam Warhurst CBE, Founder of Incredible Edible 

Pam has been an activist and advisor for more than 40 years. She currently chairs Incredible Edible CIC, an international initiative that began in Northern England using the Trojan horse of local food growing to demonstrate the power of small actions in bringing about major cultural shifts.

Pam was previously leader of a Local Authority, Chair of an Acute Health Trust, board member of several national environmental bodies, Chair of the Board of the Forestry Commission GB, and Yorkshire representative on the Committee of the Regions in Europe. She is currently Chair of a Town Deal board, giving her a front row seat on how government at all levels operate and invest.

Professor Tim Lang, Professor Emeritus of Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, School of Health & Psychological Sciences

Professor Tim Lang is Emeritus Professor of Food Policy at City University London's Centre for Food Policy. His abiding interest is how policy addresses the mixed challenge of being food for the environment, health, social justice, and citizens. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation and a special advisor to four House of Commons Select Committee inquiries, and he is currently a member of the Mayor of London's Food Board.

Craig Bennett - Chief Executive at The Wildlife Trusts

Craig has been described as “one of the country’s top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian as “the very model of a modern eco-general” and, in 2021, was included in The Sunday Times Green Power List of the UK’s top 20 environmentalists.

Craig was formerly CEO of Friends of the Earth where he refocussed the organisation to empower communities to take action on the climate & ecological crises, resulting in a step change in the scale and impact of the movement, with over 200 new Friends of the Earth community groups set up during his tenure. He also led the organisation to numerous campaign victories including on bees, fracking and against the expansion of Heathrow Airport.

Earlier in his career, Craig was Deputy Director at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), and Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (from 2007 to 2010) which he transformed into one of the most progressive business voices on the international climate change agenda.

He is Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, an Associate Fellow of Homerton College (Cambridge), a Senior Associate of The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a Policy Fellow of The Centre for Science and Policy at The University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.