mirjam johansson

Ecotherapy Worker

I am here to manage our ecotherapy referrals and to support volunteers and buddies in the garden. I have been involved in community gardening since 2009 and am currently doing a diploma in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture. I also have a background in working with refugees and in engineering. When my fingers are not in the soil I like to do all things crafty.

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Daniel strangleman

Gardener

I help run our ecotherapy garden sessions and oversee the maintenance of the site. I love the variety of activities the garden has to offer as well as seeing the positive impact the project has on people. I also volunteer in the garden as a buddy.

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leon quinlan

Gardener

I am an East London local budding horticulturalist, with a background in visual design and youth offending case management. I've been lucky enough to organise the gardening and assist with the ecotherapy sessions at Forest Farm Peace Garden, allowing me to merge my preferred career paths in horticulture and social care.

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AARON EDGELEY

Board member, Chair

As a teacher and anthropologist, I'm passionate about ethnobotany and exploring the relationship between plants and people. As part of this, I am FFPG's resident wild food and foraging specialist.

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Trustee Working Group: Finance, Human Resources

jackie hearn

Board Member, Vice-chair

I joined the ecotherapy programme in 2015 and found it helped me recover and gain a new perspective on life. This led me to becoming a buddy volunteer and now a trustee, to help to continually improve and develop FFPG so that others can benefit as much as I did from the garden.

(she/her pronouns)

Trustee Working Group: Events, Human Resources, Communications

NIGEL MEYER

Board Member

I’ve been involved in the voluntary and community sector in management for many years. I am very interested in the issues faced by refugees and people with mental health needs and got involved because I believe that places like the Peace Garden can be very positive for supporting people.

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Trustee Working Groups: Events, Human Resources, Development

pam decho

Board member

Through volunteering at FFPG, I witnessed the power of our garden to support people in their mental health recovery.  In my professional life I am a health researcher and consultant and a trained counsellor.

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Trustee Working Group: Events, Human Resources

TOM BLACKBURN

Board Member

Through my work in the civil service and charity sector I have a lot to offer in terms of supporting and shaping the organisation. I am a firm believer in the wide ranging benefits that being active outdoors in nature with others can have on health and wellbeing.

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Trustee Working Group: Development