The Volunteer Rangers are a network of passionate people with a wide range of experiences and talents who will help make London healthier, greener and wilder, contributing to our shared vision to make London a city where people, places and nature are better connected. The Rangers will work in their local communities and across the Capital on projects to tackle the climate & ecological crises, scale greening initiatives and conservation activities, run education and youth programmes, improve access to green and blue space and inspire Londoners to eat better, get outside to exercise, explore and have fun!
There are currently 110 wonderful National Park City Rangers. Read about them below, and follow their stories on #LNPCRanger and #NationalParkCity. Click on any of the Rangers to find links to their social media and websites.
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Read our 8th May Press Release on the launch.
Aashifa is a barista trainer, she works for a CIC called Well Grounded, working with and enabling those experiencing barriers to employment with coffee skills to gain successful employment. She is passionate about women’s empowerment and has co-founded an events organisation to create safe and inclusive spaces for women to upskill and network. She loves public speaking and training and wants to use these skills to engage communities and everyone who lives in London to connect with nature and take action to improve the city. Instagram: @jalebae Adrian is a Transport Planner who has been involved with high profile transport infrastructure projects to create people first solutions to the challenges of urban mobility. He believes green space and public health can be built into design to create incredible places for people to live, work and play. He currently works with the Football Association at Wembley Stadium, which lies at the heart of one of London's biggest regeneration schemes. The Wembley Park masterplan is injecting new life into the area, including an improved public realm for the local community to enjoy a greener and healthier neighbourhood. Aidan loves nothing more than being outdoors and observing wildlife in London’s natural spaces. Aidan has completed a Bronze Duke of Edinburgh award and loves taking photos of natural scenery. Aidan helps his mum run a local project improving the biodiversity of their local park. He wants to make change. Alastair has worked in the property and construction sector for 12 years, specialising in environmental impact around the climate and ecological crises. He works with businesses, local authorities, universities, and NGOs to create progressive policy, education programmes, and guidance documents. He co-founded a community gardening project where he lives and currently works for the UK Green Building Council. Twitter: @greenginger_UK Alex has been involved with the London National Park City since its inception. With a teaching and youth work background, Alex brings a wealth of experience working with young people to the Ranger team. Alex has recently completed a Masters where her final project created a soundscape centred on a city's green areas in previously underused space. Alisa is a designer of ecocentric experiences and tools. She crafts textiles, installations, fashion, art and games as avenues for hope-fuelled Earth-adoring storytelling. She is curious about alternative forms of knowledge, cross-cultural, indigenous and interspecies ways of relating and is currently working on creating civic spaces and trails for ecological dreaming & rewilding of the mind. Ealing is one of the greenest boroughs and has one of the most diverse communities in London. Allan has lived in Ealing all of his life and really wants to contribute to the use of the parks and encouraging others to use them. Allan would like to work with both the young and elderly as well as our diverse community to see the parks as a place to explore, learn and enjoy. Allia runs the Keeping it Wild programme at London Youth, an inclusive youth environmental social action project that provides opportunities for young people across London to engage in creative wildlife conservation and campaigning. She has a background as a youth worker working with young women & girls, LGBTQ youth and in CAMHS. Her greatest passion is creating spaces for young people to be heard, seen, supported to thrive, be creative and make a radical impact and change in the world and their local environment. Amanda is a sculptor and activist whose art is inspired by plants, trees and fungi. Through her many public artworks she has enhanced and improved access to both urban and rural green spaces. A Forest School leader and former teacher, she helps build compassionate, sustainable communities through shared creative activity. Amy recently completed her PhD, which investigated art as one way of engaging the wider public in social and political conversations. This is one of Amy's passions, and many of her own art projects have an environmental focus, including those on urban conservation. She has experience running gardening and food growing workshops and small-scale programmes. She also recently ran a programme encouraging university students to eat better and to exercise and experience nature. Amy lives at Sanford Housing Co-operative, where she plays an active role in maintaining and developing their green spaces. These projects all relate to Amy's passion for creating spaces for nature, including through rewilding and urban conservation. Instagram: @turquoiselily Website: www.amycorcoran.xyz Andrew produces content that helps to connect people with nature and science. He has a BA in Natural Sciences and an MSc in Science Communication, and loves nothing more than discovering and sharing the unexpected stories that nature has to offer. Andy is heavily involved in projects to green the workplace and increase zero-waste goals. He has recently set up a climate action group in the local community. He brings urban gardening experience, as well as a specialism and focus on rewilding spaces. Currently, he volunteers with Action for Conservation, Friends of South Norwood Country Park and works with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) on local projects and spaces around South Norwood. Instagram: @andyatchappel Anna is an amateur, long-distance triathlete with a real passion for being in the outdoors. Anna has led expeditions in orienteering, trail runs and races and believes these are an essential means of exploring and appreciating the outdoors. Anna also works as an engineer in low carbon energy and climate change policy so brings experience in two very different areas to the Ranger team! Instagram: @anna0lawson Anni spent the first 14 years of her life in London before moving to Hong Kong for 2 years. Now back in London and actively involved in the student climate strikes, Anni is passionate about provoking positive and realistic change both for a healthy city but also an improved quality of life for Londoners. Anni loves acting and directing and is a strong believer in the power of theatre and creativity in communicating the vision of London National Park City. Annie loves walking, cycling, food growing and being outdoors. She is a community engagement officer for a sustainable transport charity and is passionate about repurposing streets for planting, exercise and connections. She studies practical horticulture and wants to use her new skills to connect people to nature and each other. Aude is an IoT Engineer at Vertical Future, where she helps automate the growth of leafy greens. She combines her passion for electronics to cultivate vegetables and flowers on her outdoor balcony garden and looks forward to sharing her skills with others to help them manage their outdoor green spaces. Avigail Ochert is an educator with a passion for the environment and believes spending time engaging with nature should be everyone's right. She has worked in Kew Gardens as a teacher with visiting school groups, has volunteered with conservation charity Heath Hands on Hampstead Heath and is currently a Session Leader there, delivering workshops with community groups. Ben has been a Geography teacher for 10 years. He has always had a passion for spending time outdoors and has conducted training for, and taken part in, various Duke of Edinburgh expeditions. He loves teaching young people, particularly when they can apply their learning to their local environment and see that they can have a positive impact. He organised many field trips to various locations around London to help students to understand the spaces that we use, and the impacts that we have on our city landscape. He’d love to work with teachers and other professionals who can help develop resources and opportunities for students to make the most of outdoor opportunities across London. Twitter: @mrbishopgeog Ben has advocated and been involved in jobs and volunteering directly linked to the conservation, study of and increasing awareness of London ecosystems. He works with volunteer groups from businesses, schools and local communities, providing outdoor education, running citizen science activities and facilitating conservation action to improve urban green spaces. He has a strong connection to the East London green spaces and valley parks such as Epping Forest, the Lea Valley and the Roding Valley as they are the spaces that connect him to his place of work, which he enjoys in his free time. Instagram: @benbish1 Caiti runs her own florist, Rose and Joy, which has a #grownnotflown ethos. Caiti is also Head of Humanities at Harris Academy Clapham School in Lambeth. Caiti uses the geography curriculum as a tool for providing young people with opportunities to appreciate, value and experience nature. Chantal is a Londoner who loves hiking and has recently discovered the joys of walking in her own city. Always having had an interest in animals and the natural world, she graduated in Zoology & Psychology. She strongly believes that a connection with nature is critical for mutual health and wellbeing and will result in a natural respect of the environment. She understands how important it is to draw people’s attention to green spaces particularly in cities and has a Shinrin Yoku (Forest bathing) guiding certificate. She is currently working on the Wanderful London project which aims to uncover the amazing wildlife, green spaces and events and knowledge across London by creating a green platform accessible to Londoners. In her spare time, she enjoys creating habitats for wildlife i As a Learning Strategist, Charisse believes in the power of education to unlock positive change. She has worked on skills programmes in resource-poor countries for the economic inclusion of women and girls, and currently working on a global upskilling programme for the environmental, social and governance agenda. Charlie is passionate about fresh and nutritious local resources. Working collaboratively across plant science and nutrition, food security and botanical design, he explores new avenues of self-sufficiency to help ourselves and the environment. Charlie has seasoned experience in diversified agriculture, horticulture and London-based community development whilst maintaining a rich interest in placemaking and rewilding. Previous work includes a London-based urban farming, arts & culture venue in association with Sustain - the alliance for better food and farming. Charlie has a particular interest in nature, especially invertebrates - despite being beautiful and important, minibeasts can often be overlooked. Charlie works for the Mission: Invertebrate project at The Royal Parks as well as volunteering at the Westbury Banks Nature Reserve, a derelict site transformed by volunteers into a green space for the community. Twitter: @ChoralLinnets Chris teaches in further and higher education, serving as a union green rep and organising initiatives for greening the workplace. With a background in the arts, he has spent many years facilitating public workshops, and recently volunteered at a community garden run by a local refugee youth group. Ciaran is a naturepreneur, passionate about how nature connection can improve both people and the planet’s wellbeing. In 2012 he founded MindFood a charity that has supported over 600 people to tackle anxiety and depression in a natural way through their free food growing courses. He has recently trained in horticulture, completing the 'Work and Retrain As a Gardener' (WRAG) scheme alongside residential gardening in West London. He has worked in fundraising teams for some of the UK’s most well known charities including NSPCC, Mind, Teenage Cancer Trust and Scope. He has just started as Business Development Manager at Gunnersbury Park CIC leading on income generation and partnerships. He is bringing his experience of business development, corporate fundraising, Trust fundraising, commis Claire works in the charity sector and has set up environmental projects within her local community. She coordinates a volunteer conservation group for a nature reserve and has always had a fascination with the natural world around her. She believes everyone should have the opportunity to experience wildlife ‘close up’. Dan is a bike riding, bird watching, pond dipping, seed sowing Londoner with a passion for urban nature conservation and community gardens. Dan is a familiar face at many of London's urban green spaces, and if he's not there, he's on his bike and looking for new ones. Danielle is a wildlife photographer with a degree in zoology and her favourite location is London! She believes there is so much exciting wildlife located in the city and as many species are familiar with people, it's really easy getting up close. She wants to inspire and engage other city dwellers about our amazing wildlife through her images, and to encourage them to spend more time outside. Most of her images on Instagram are taken in London and she'd love to spend the year focusing on some key species and locations in London. She'd love the opportunity to photograph peregrine falcon chicks being ringed and other exciting conservation work being done in the city. Instagram: @daniconnorwild David is an editor for a natural history book publisher and an active environmental campaigner, tackling waste, lobbying politicians, and working for a Green future. He is passionate about spending as much time as possible outdoors, and is extremely keen to see a greener, healthier and wilder London. David is an active Volunteer in London with Park Friends’ Groups and a Greening Group, planting hedges, bulbs, river clearing of debris, litter, improving flow and habitat; litter picking and ad hoc repairing, assisting the Parks’ teams and the Environment agency in identifying problems and suggesting solutions. He has experience in maintaining a Green Triangle in his area by litter picking, creating habitat, cutting up fallen trees and planting new ones, as well as tidying and improving the local railway embankment. He takes photographs, studies and observes the environment, wildlife and habitat; and loves communicating to young and old to spread his passion for a greener, bluer, healthier, wilder and better educated world. He has previously contributed to the draft Lee Forum Plan on Dennis is a primary school teacher in South East London where he leads on Environmental Education and Outdoor Learning. He is passionate about giving children and young people opportunities to learn from the natural world and has developed a curriculum that puts the environment and sustainability at the heart of the school. Dennis is happiest when he is in nature, whether that's cycling through Greenwich Park on his way to work, walking along the River Thames or bird watching in one of London's green spaces. Dipa is a communications specialist with a particular interest in story capturing and digital media. She has worked for food charities and conducted research on land rights both abroad and in the UK. In her spare time she volunteers with Transition Town Tooting, with her local community garden and has worked with refugees and asylum seekers in South London. She also set up Taste of Tooting, which offered visitors a taste of Tooting’s cultural heritage through tours of local food-growing spaces and independent food businesses. Dipa will be working with Ranger Ingrina Shieh to profile and connect individuals growing food which links them to their cultural heritage in the boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth. Twitter: @8dipatel8. Facebook: southlondonseedcollective Divya is passionate about urban foraging, specifically finding fruit trees in the city. Volunteering, she hopes to encourage public parks to plant fruit trees, clearly labelled to aid the community identifying them. Her dream is to publish her own fruit tree map of London. Divya is a renewable energy engineer. Believing nature can empower communities, Dorothy has the passion for involving London’s low socio-economic and ethnic minority communities in local greenspaces. Dorothy works as an environmental advisor in a humanitarian aid charity, and before that as an ecologist in London’s built environment sector and a sustainability consultant for the United Nations. As an avid gardener and passionate Londoner, Ebs’ motivation is all about people getting reconnected to nature, taking their noses out of their phones and looking around to rediscover and appreciate what is out there. Ebs is a presenter and broadcaster and has acted as the main host for National Park City events. Instagram: @ebuaki Twitter: @ebuaki Website: www.ebuaki.com Ed works as a landscaper and garden designer with a passion for creating naturalistic and productive spaces. He wants to help educate people how to use reclaimed materials, provide a space for nature, and increase biodiversity in their local area. Elly is a textile artist whose creations are inspired by the natural world. Using fabric waste collected along the River Wandle, Elly’s work reflects on our interactions with our local green spaces. She teaches clothes repair and community sewing workshops to share skills that reduce our impact on the environment. Emily loves exploring London’s nature and is passionate about wildlife and bird photography. Emily has volunteered for lots of local organisations and loves to discover, learn from, and share knowledge from wildlife organisations. As a social media expert, Emily is a great addition to the Ranger team. Twitter: @gingeylangers Instagram: @gingeylang and @ingwerwings Emily works to foster deeper connections between people, places and power. She works as a freelance facilitator and writer in systems change, as a localism researcher for the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, and volunteers at the Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses and as a Lambeth Community Connector. She loves discovering wild swimming spots and spaces of sanctuary within the city. Francesco is a service designer from Milan. Once he reached London, he just fell in love with the local urban green spaces culture and is keen to “get back to nature” as much as possible. He’s always strived for a more sustainable and fairer society, now he works with the belief that to enhance in those terms processes, services and organisations it’s fundamental to humanising them by involving people directly in their design. Gavin is a writer, editor, proofreader, forager, herbalist and amateur botanist. He has been teaching foraging for wild food and medicine for years. He has a strong belief that if people understand what a fantastic resource they have, they'll appreciate it and look after it better. He currently works for an organisation called Totally Wild UK who teach foraging for food and medicine all over the UK and he covers the London area. Instagram: @gav.forager Website: www.foundfood.com Georgia is passionate London's outdoor beauty is meant for everyone to enjoy. She particularly loves to find ways for young people to engage positively with the outdoors. As a primary trained special needs teacher, she has worked in a variety of settings to help young people access, engage with and treasure the natural world. Currently, she is the Environmental Education Officer at Greenpeace and is undergoing training to become a Forest School Instructor. She hopes to bring the fun of our green city to more young people. Giorgia has 15 years of experience working as a sustainability professional in London's built environment sector. As such, she has in-depth knowledge of sustainability issues and the value of nature in mitigating them, the London planning system, and the challenges faced by local authorities and developers in safeguarding nature. She has already worked with National Park City Foundation and UrbanGood to deliver the first borough scale London National Park City map for Greenwich. She is currently Head of Sustainability at Berkeley Homes and as part of the Make Life Better campaign, she convinced 96 colleagues to take on the team challenge of walking the London Outer Orbital Path. Giorgia is a Volunteer Officer for The Conservation Volunteers Green Gym in Waltham Forest. Through work, volunteering and studying sustainability, Giorgia has developed a wide and diverse understanding of the current and future issues facing the environment. Combined with her optimism and enthusiasm, Giorgia is looking to bring a fresh and creative approach to making London a greener, wilder and healthier City! Greg is an arboriculturist with a passion for community education and engagement with trees. Greg leads guided tree walks with a difference - linking ecology with folklore, mythology and our heritage with trees; reconnecting people with their history and shared experiences of trees. Instagram: @greg_packman Twitter: @GregPackman Helen is a qualified mountain leader, experienced walking group leader and environmental activist. Being passionate about the planet and all life on it, Helen is eager to support young people in getting involved in local greenspaces and work with local communities to see how we can better use our common land to provide all that we need. Helen is a curator-geographer and mum of two tiny terrors who are happiest outdoors. A resident of Tower Hamlets, she is creating a website highlighting the wealth of places to enjoy the great outdoors in East London. Her geography PhD explored arts and peace-making in Rwanda, and she currently works with The Line, London’s first dedicated art walk. She is passionate about the potential nature and art hold to enrich lives. Holly is currently a PhD student at University College London, using camera traps to study biodiversity trends in the Maasai Mara. She is also a part-time tutor and volunteers with Action Tutoring- a charity supporting pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. She believes that all children should have the opportunity to regularly play and be curious in nature, and that the outdoors is meant to be a welcoming and accessible place for everyone. As a zoology graduate, she finds it impossible to pick a favourite animal, but she does have a soft spot for bumblebees and has been a Bumblebee Conservation Trust volunteer since 2015. Ingrina has a passion for urban social design and is keen to address how she can involve ethnic minority communities in London’s urban agriculture scene. She also has a personal interest in active travel, sustainability, and making the city a people-friendly environment. Currently her day job is at the London Waste and Recycling Board working on CIRCuIT, a Horizon 2020 project focussed on implementing circular and sustainable approaches in construction within the city. She loves being active outdoors, whether it's running from park to park, walking, or hiking. Together with Ranger Dipa Patel, their plan is to connect with ethnic minority individuals and groups in the boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth, and Southwark, who are actively growing their cultural food from seed. Instagram: @agre Izzy has experience in the field of political activism and has organised groups in many of the recent school protests, engaging young people in activism and environmental action. She has been involved recently in an oyster restoration project, where she worked with The Blue Marine Foundation in conserving marine life in and around Southampton. Prior to moving to London, Jamie was involved with local habitat conservation volunteering in and around Oxford. Now based in Hackney, Jamie volunteers with OrganicLea in Waltham Forest to promote knowledge about food growing and community wellbeing. With digital marketing, editing and website experience Jamie is a welcomed addition to the Ranger team. Twitter: @jreecebowman Jasmine is a nature and wildlife photographer fascinated by the coexistence of humans and nature, celebrating wildlife’s adaptation to the human-made environment. Amazed by wildlife’s intelligence and ability to thrive in spaces not built with them in mind. Jasmine loves sharing her images and experiences capturing city wildlife, hoping to encourage others to also appreciate nature on their doorstep. Jasvindar is a Complementary Therapist, having social care experience in mental health and children and families. She is interested in restoring our reciprocal relationship with nature to promote reconnection with self, community and environment. She aspires to innovate nature-based projects based on egalitarian values that promote community cohesion and wellness. Jen is a junior doctor, nature-lover and keen amateur gardener. She is passionate about planetary health and environmental justice, and has worked with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare to further education on this concept. She knows that getting outdoors into green spaces is great for health and wellbeing, and wants to inspire others to get out there too! Jim has a professional diploma in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture and has completed the Gardeniser Pro practitioner course with Erasmus and Social Farms and Gardens. He loves to learn, discover and then show to others the wonder of life all around us. He has been working and engaging with community groups for over 25 years in social housing. He is currently the community garden manager with Sufra NW London where he is successfully growing on a derelict space in a large Brent estate – St Raphael’s Estate in Stonebridge. He has experience working with people living with SEN needs, people who experience English as a second language, refugees, asylum seekers and volunteers. Twitter: @SufraNWLondon Facebook: SufraNWLondon Instagram: @sufranwlondon Joe is an advertising creative and writer, hobbyist photographer, home composter and low-waste liver. He started his career writing fundraising campaigns for the biggest charities in the world, and has since been involved in sustainability initiatives and training within WPP. London’s parks have been his sanctuary for years. Jonas enjoys spending time outdoors and growing vegetables, with a particular interest in urban farming. As a Ranger, Jonas is looking to support and develop the creation of community gardens and explore ideas for alternative ways of urban farming. Jonas is keen to help people in accessing and valuing the outdoors, whether through physical activities or providing new opportunities to explore the city. Josh is interested in greening and biodiversity projects and is a founding partner of theWholeStory - an organisation that works with individuals and companies to explore the role of storytelling in communication. Josh has been delivering training to our National Park City Champions and will continue to support fellow Rangers in using storytelling to spread the word of London National Park City. Twitter: @jgaillemin Website: www.thewholestory.org.uk Kabir is a young conservationist who has been specialising in the Capital’s wildlife and green and blue spaces for the last two years. Kabir volunteers for a number of community run wildlife sites and developed the interactive map ‘Nature Reserves of London’. Through writing, blogging, public speaking and social media, Kabir brings attention to the green and blue spaces in the capital and how individuals can make a difference on their doorstep. Twitter: @Kaulofthewilduk Website: www.kaulofthewild.com Kadeem recently graduated with a degree in fine art. In his practice, Kadeem is fascinated with the beauty of the natural world and the moments it gives to us, that we often don't notice, the seasons, the cycles of life and death and the magnificent wildlife that inhabits our city. Kate is currently the Head of Geography at Hampstead School (Camden) and has taught geography for 5 years. Alongside this role she is involved with many other organisations- working to ensure an engaging and effective geography curriculum for all. She is passionate about providing wide-ranging opportunities for students beyond the classroom- especially young people who don't have the confidence to explore their own city. She hopes to inspire people and reunite them with green spaces through the London National Park City and help to spread a culture of appreciation of nature and the wildness across our city. Twitter: @kate_stockings Katie was born in London and has lived in Newham for most of her life. Katie worked in Finance in the City of London for many years and now works as a Liaison Officer at the London Stadium at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, QEOP. Katie volunteers for Newham Volunteers and is a Park Champion volunteer at the QEOP on various events including carrying out conservation work for the past 9 years. Katie would like to help to create more growing opportunities for the local diverse community. Katie is a Forest School Leader, a practitioner of shinrin-yoku and runs two nature connection social enterprises promoting the links between nature, health and happiness. Katie brings significant experience in coordinating, curating and delivering nature connection programmes, talks and events to the Ranger team. Katie is developing a wonderful ‘Stories By Moonlight’ initiative to encourage outdoor reading, storytelling and nature connection. Instagram: @forestandfamily and @katiemills_nature Websites: www.katiemills.co.uk, www.forestandfamily.com, www.forestbathinglondon.org Keir is currently on a gap year before studying History at UCL. Keir is the London Youth Rep for the British Trust of Ornithology (“BTO”) planning youth events in the Capital and volunteers with On the Record (an oral history project). Keir is looking to collaborate with different organisations to enable more young people to access the natural world and the huge variety of birds in the London area. He has a particular fascination with natural history and the interactions between humans and the natural world. Keir enjoys going on long walks with his camera following parts of the capital ring and taking photos. Keith has set up a local community garden and is active with a number of organisations including Thames21. Keith’s focus is on the practical, and has created raised beds, benches from discarded kitchen and dining chairs and a greenhouse from a donated wooden shed for the community garden. Reusing and repurposing items is a passion of Keith’s and a brilliant skill that he is bringing to the Ranger community. Khadijah is experienced in environmental activism and due to her efforts, her school banned plastic cutlery and water bottles in the school canteen. She has also been involved in an oyster restoration project, where she worked with The Blue Marine Foundation in conserving marine life in and around Southampton through the charity Action for Conservation (AFC). Khadijah was also featured in the 2019 State of Nature Report and on Newsround. Since 2019, Khadijah has been part of the world's largest restoration initiative, The Penpont Project. She represented Penpont at the Generation Climate Europe talk 2020 attended by the United Nations. Kristian is passionate about promoting opportunities for children and their families across London and has a track record of doing so over the past seventeen years. Part of this, he has been promoting opportunities within the local community and supporting engagement with their local environment in a meaningful way. In paid and voluntary roles, he has been involved in public events that have championed health, wellbeing and activity, from Mental Health workshops, community gardening sessions, healthy eating, cycling and BMX coaching, arts and other youth work activities. Laure believes that nature would be a lot more protected and enjoyed if better understood by everyone. Nature and plant literacy are her pet peeves. She works in marketing and sustainability for Obelisk Support and is also a lifestyle blogger at FrogMom, published writer, environmental educator, anthropologist, and amateur botanist. She has lived in New Caledonia, Thailand, France and California before calling London home. Passionate about access to the outdoors, she has been reporting on environmental conservation and education for over 15 years, writing a hiking guidebook and cofounding the San Francisco Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights along the way. When not cycling or walking around, she can be found swimming at the Serpentine (or further afield). Lauren is a PhD student at the Natural History Museum in London studying molecular ecology. She brings to the Ranger team a passion for science communication, with a twist – Lauren communicates about her work and conservation issues through illustrations and animations. Have a look at Lauren’s twitter to see this great way of science communication! Lauren has spent the past 19 years in this fabulous city, from working in the city as a Project Manager, to being a Tour Guide (She knows her history!) to what she normally does before Covid, which is a professional musician. The past year Lauren has found being outdoors, walking in nature has had such a positive impact on her mental health and she wants to feel like she is doing something worthwhile. Lauren loves animals so they are a big part of her life. She is originally from a very rural area in South Wales so she knows her way outdoors! Lesley has been a mentor with The Orchard Project since 2015, working with communities and sharing knowledge of orchard maintenance and care. Lesley is also a Beekeeper and has been a London National Park City Maker, Ambassador and Champion since the start of the movement. Lesley supports a number of community groups in many ways, as well as working with schools, and is involved with the Peckham Coal Line - a project creating a new park across the centre of Peckham. In 2019, Lesley received the Acorn Award in the London Tree and Woodland Awards - an award for an individual member of the public who has made a particular contribution to promoting or conserving trees. Twitter: @ldwgf Lily thrives in situations involving nature and people. Lily has completed two levels of the Duke of Edinburgh’s award focusing on nature and outdoor space, as well as being involved in local tree planting projects. Lily strongly believes in the need to get young people excited and involved with nature - for the benefits both to our wildlife but also personally for our physical and mental health. Instagram: @wildlondon.on.wheels Lina works as a community champion project worker based in Church Street where volunteers give their time to serve their community. Lina strongly believes that a connection with nature is critical for mental health and wellbeing and will result in greater respect for the environment. Lisa is a Digital Sociologist and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths who studies the intersection of technology, information and social life. This includes brand and digital strategy, content strategy and content design, online community building and user experience research. As a researcher, she has expertise in listening to people’s stories and uncovering insights from what they’ve shared. She is also a qualified yoga teacher. Instagram: @LisaTalia Twitter: @LisaTalia Lizzie has a passion for the outdoors and sharing the benefits of engaging with nature and green spaces for our mental and physical health. Lizzie works for Paddington Development Trust supporting health based volunteering in deprived communities in North Westminster, and brings significant experience in community engagement and developing and delivering training and support sessions. Instagram: @zizzlie Three years ago, Luke set up the Westbury Banks Nature Reserve and turned a known fly tipping hotspot into a Nature Reserve. The Reserve has secured long term funding from the Noel Park Big Local and is constituted as a friends group. Luke has helped other local friends groups secure funding for setting up projects and provides them with guidance when dealing with third parties. Luke is currently working with Future Wood Green BID to rejuvenate disused flower beds at Wood Green Library into a thriving habitat for wildlife and people! Twitter @Duke_Nuke Instagram:@Grow_N22 Maj is an anthropologist and educator passionate about grassroots women's empowerment, community development, and indigenous rights. She has lived in Africa and Latin America where she has spent most of her time doing field research and participatory community workshops with various indigenous communities around issues of preservation of culture, land and alternative reality construction. She is also the founder of OUMMY AFRIKA, an ethical fashion brand focused on the preservation of disappearing indigenous African textile traditions, while building collaborative and ecologically-rooted pieces of clothing and directly supporting the powerful artisans behind each ancestral piece of heritage used. Mar is founder of the Heston Action Group, working to unite the local community in cleaning and greening to make their area a better place to live and work. Heston Action Group has participated at a number of London NPC events including speaking at the Mayoral summit. Mar is looking to both expand the work of Heston Action Group and support other communities in caring for their local area. Twitter: @HestonActionG Facebook: Heston Action Group Nature has allowed Marlon to find a full expression of what it means to be a human being. There becomes a correlation to the way that we live to what we provide in restoration and harmony with the ecosystem around us. Restoring the balance as a Ranger provides Marlon with a community that knows the importance of this mission. Marlon is currently invested in Urban Farming and business ventures that allow him to provide food to the community. He also teaches Yoga as a wholistic Practice. Mary has walked the city in every direction and appreciates the way London opens up–the layers of history and people’s lives threaded together with green spaces and waterways. As an illustrator, she enjoys finding, recording and sharing those unexpected London spaces like the wild garden under the Westway, approached by a stile. Matt is a colourful illustrator, with a number of local projects within the Royal Docks and Beckton area of Newham, including virtual drawing workshops, illustrated walking maps, local tree planting, urban gardening and public realm workshops. He loves the unique environment of dock-life, with green parkland, and thames-side wildlife environments in walking distance, and is an active member of the community and keen wildlife spotter including wild swimming, tree planting, duck sighting, and bat detecting. Matthew is a writer, editor and multimedia storyteller, who has specialised in working with under-represented voices and helping new writers to tell their own stories about their neighbourhoods, communities, and natural environments. In his career as a journalist, he has specialised in writing on nature and cities, and how we can design our built environment to be more productive and wilder. He is currently developing The Manuals - www.themanuals.org - which works with ecologists, architects, gardeners, artists, farmers, and a range of experts and regular people to create a set of instructions for reappropriating objects and infrastructure to provide for other species. Instagram: @future.nature.projects Website: www.themanuals.org Twitter: @mjponsford Max has a BSc Zoology degree and work experience specialising in environmental issues and wildlife conservation. Max currently works at The Orchard Project where he helps to plan their wonderful training courses. He also currently volunteers at several charities including The Conservation Volunteers, Froglife and the London Wildlife Trust. Michael leads wild food walks and fungi forays, helping people to get to know their botanical and fungal neighbours. He believes that the first step to rewilding our city is to rewild our minds. Often dismissed as ‘weeds’ or ‘poisonous’, just a subtle shift in perception can transform weeds into wildflowers or turn fungi into friends rather than a source of fear. His goal is to help make London wilder and greener by inspiring Londoners to discover the ‘hidden’ nature under their noses. He volunteers with Limmud, a Jewish cultural organisation, as well as the Friends of Ainslie and Larks Woods (FoAL) in Waltham Forest, giving talks on nature connection, fungi and foraging. Instagram: @intrepidforager FB: intrepidforager Michael is a freelance nature educator and author of the award-winning children’s book ‘I Ate Sunshine For Breakfast’. As Head of Education at Chelsea Physic Garden, he enthused tens of thousands of people about nature for 25 years. He’s now transforming his own wildlife garden into an outdoor classroom. Nat is a copywriter and artist, working in communications for a refugee aid charity. Nat enjoys foraging, woodland walks, learning about fungi, baking sourdough and befriending garden robins. Nat also loves growing food and is looking forward to having their own allotment, where they plan to implement a ‘permaculture’ philosophy. Nour is a postgraduate Architecture Student, aspiring Architect and Island Innovation Ambassador for England. She is an avid hillwalker and loves to spend time outdoors, and volunteers as an Assistant Cub Scouts Leader with her local Scout Group. Omar works at Action for Conservation, delivering environmentally-focused education and experiences to young people in the UK. A London Wildlife Trust traineeship led to a deepened interest in London’s many species, and Omar is passionate about sharing knowledge of these incredible fungi, plants and animals with other Londoners. Oscar is a 16 year old student. He is a dedicated vegan, so treating the fragile environment with the respect it deserves is something he firmly stands by, and is something that is very important to him. Oscar is also an actor and a keen sportsman, regularly playing football and snooker. Paul is a full-time Beekeeper working with community, business and local government in maintaining sustainable honey bee colonies and adding forage and greening to the capitals roof tops. Paul is always looking for new projects and people to work with to make London greener! Instagram: @paulyouthed As an early years educator and a forest school leader within a primary school, Paula has a strong passion for working with children, the great outdoors and educating the next generation to gain better knowledge and understanding of their local woodland and natural environment. Rachael is a Canadian doctoral researcher and project manager with the local environmental charity Sustainable Merton. As an avid green space user, she is passionate about contributing to the inclusive design and management of green spaces so all Londoners can enjoy the many benefits nature has to offer. Regina works with cities globally on climate change adaptation and the many co-benefits of creating a greener city – from better air quality, increased physical and mental health, to carbon capture, and adapting to hotter temperatures and flooding. She has organised many climate change related workshops over the past years and has been volunteering at different hands-on urban greening activities across London – like planting trees, protecting wetlands and building garden beds on parking lots. She loves discovering green spaces in between London’s buzzing and diverse city life and would love to inspire Londoners to be nature explorers in their own city! Rich is a global policy analyst and local leader - nurturing ideas, connecting people and celebrating creativity. Rich is founder of Friends of Bridge House Pond, Feltham, transforming an overgrown and dangerous park into a Green Flag winner. Rich works to connect people, places and spaces to discover what is possible, along with organising events and activities including Feltham in Bloom, PondFest, parkrun, playstreets, and more. A big fan of "Mini-adventures" and big expeditions, a long-distance walker and a bushcraft instructor, Roberts loves exploring the delights of the urban environment - London has so much to offer to enthusiasts of walking, outdoor education and adventurous sports; beautiful nature; fascinating industrial heritage and wider history amidst the urban sprawl. Ronald is a communication specialist with an interest in community gardens and green policy. Ronald is keen to use his communication skills to spread the word of the National Park City and work with other Rangers and the local community to set up community gardens. Rose is a community gardener and organiser who is passionate about connecting Londoners to wilderness in their city. She’s a keen forager who finds wild food growing in the most unexpected places. Rose believes in a more resilient food future where London is abundant with food grown by the community. Ross is an Urban Design and Planning Consultant, living in Bethnal Green. He helps local authorities improve and reimagine places through strategies and masterplans. He is also the creator of The Green Urbanist Podcast, which discusses how urbanists can tackle climate change and create happier, healthier cities. Seb is a London-based environmental scientist with a PhD in global environmental change. He currently works for Hammersmith & Fulham Council leading their response to the ecological emergency. With a particular interest in urban nature recovery, Seb’s desk always features a pair of good binoculars for impromptu window-gazing or lunchtime walks. Devoting the past decade to caring for his parents, beginning a new chapter in his life, Simon founded Harrow Biodiversity and Environment. Passionate about protecting and improving the local environment, especially for the younger and elderly generations, Simon is working with the council, community projects, food surplus distribution projects, community gardens and biodiversity initiatives. Simon is the Head Warden of Stanmore Common Local Nature Reserve and he sits on the committee of the Harrow Nature Conservation Forum. He is also the Wildlife Advisor for the Harrow Parks Forum, the umbrella group for the different parks Friends Groups and co-runs a social enterprise which links families to nature activities in parks and nature reserves called Harrow Nature Heroes. He is a keen naturalist, loves working outdoors and working with people of all ages. He is an experienced bird watcher and has done a lot of work on fungi, bats and many other groups of animals and plants. Facebook: Harrow Nature Conservation Forum | Harrow Nature Heroes | Harrow Parks Forum Simon is an environmentalist and volunteer who strives to improve London’s green spaces for wildlife. He focuses on butterflies, as these are indicators of the state of the environment. Through lobbying, talks and social media, Simon has been encouraging people to enjoy and improve their local green spaces for wildlife. Sophia is an artist, illustrator and writer. Her work explores relationships with nature, past and present. She is fascinated by ecosystems, from pond communities beneath the surface to life supported by a single tree. She has experience in running art workshops for children inspired by wildlife, natural systems and stories. Stephen works in the field of making cities more sustainable and resilient to climate impacts and through his job, he has set up a network of 20 European Cities who are all interested in advancing the use of Nature Based Solutions. He is experienced at leading group walks, both in the mountains and in London covering various urbanism topics and climate change. He has led all aspects of volunteer programmes for young people interested in careers in sustainable development and he is a member of the local (Walworth) Community Garden network through which he has helped rewild and garden their local areas. Twitter: @stephenpassmore Sue volunteers for a number of groups and previously worked as a Volunteer Manager. In particular, Sue volunteers in Kensington gardens allotment, is an active member of Peabody Avenue and Close gardening club, and has a love of planting for bees and insects. Sue is looking forward to supporting groups and individuals to develop the passion for nature that she has! Theresa’s specialism is as the Kitchen Buddy director, Nutritional Therapist and naturopathic chef. She writes for publications in partnership with the NHS and as a new botanical artist for www.kitchenbuddies.eu As a seasonal medicinal plant urban forager of 16 years, Theresa enjoys educating on the impact that seasonal and local plants have on our wellbeing. She has engaged with several borough councils, local charities and a royal florist, to educate people of all ages on sustainable lifestyles and the current importance of wild edible weeds for strengthening our immunity, on her nature walks across the capital and across the UK. Twitter: @kitchenbuddy Website: www.kitchenbuddies.eu Instagram: @theresawebb12 Uma loves the outdoors, to garden and make habitats for local wildlife to thrive. She has been involved in creating a Secret Garden in her school where they grow fruit and vegetables, helped create a garden at a local community centre and rewilded her garden where she has seen an incredible increase in insects and birds. She would love people in her community to treat London as National Park and enjoy London in that way. She wants to develop a career in Conservation and connect with people who are working within that space. Zara is a Londoner who has always loved walking in the city and exploring green areas of beauty, with a keen interest in wild flowers. She is mad about wildlife in London, always up to explore nature and learning about her local area too. Zara is currently a Creative Solutions Project Manager at TimeOut. 
Aashifa Hussain - Haringey, Camden, Hackney
Adrian Hooper - Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Brent
Aidan Cole - Richmond-upon-Thames
Alastair Mant - Lewisham
Alex Watson, Hackney
Alisa Ruzavina - Waltham Forest/Hackney
Allan Aubeelack - Ealing
Allia Fredricks - Haringey
Amanda Randall - Richmond upon Thames
Amy Corcoran, Lewisham
Andrew Dixon - Hackney
Andy Anastasi Chappel, Croydon, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth
Anna Lawson, Tower Hamlets
Anni Paradise - West London
Annie Miller - Lambeth
Aude Vuilli - Camden
Avigail Ochert - Camden
Ben Bishop - Bromley, Greenwich
Ben Bishop - Newham, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge, Waltham Forest
Caiti Walter - Wandsworth/Hackney
Chantal Woodun - Brent, Ealing
Charisse Cruz - Newham
Charlie Howell - Hackney, Islington, City of London, City of Westminster.
Charlie Linton - Haringey
Chris Collier - Lewisham
Ciaran Biggins - Ealing, Hounslow
Claire Ford - Waltham Forest
Dan Snell - Haringey
Danielle Connor - Merton
David Campbell - Camden
David Ford - Lewisham and Greenwich
Dennis Hollywood - Lewisham
Dipa Patel - Lambeth, Wandsworth and Southwark
Divya Hariramani - Southwark
Dorothy Tang - Islington
Ebs Akintade - Croydon
Ed Koffler - Kingston-upon-Thames
Elly Platt - Sutton
Emily Langston - Merton
Emily Stewart - Lambeth
Francesco Cagnola - Southwark
Gavin Ireland - Enfield, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Maybe Islington, Tower Hamlets, City, City of Westminster
Georgia Prasad - Hackney and Enfield
Giorgia Franco - Greenwich, Lewisham
Giorgia Svalduz - Tower Hamlets
Greg Packman - Waltham Forest and Islington
Helen Locke - Richmond
Helen Simms - Tower Hamlets
Holly Pringle - Barnet
Ingrina Shieh - Southwark, Lambeth
Izzy Mills - Camden, Barnet, Islington, Haringey
Jamie Bowman - Hackney
Jasmine Kamal-Pasha - Ealing
Jasvindar Brar - Ealing
Jen Young - Lambeth
Jim Sheeran - Brent
Joe Shields - Newham
Jonas - Wandsworth
Josh Gaillemin - Southwark
Kabir Kaul - Hillingdon
Kadeem Graham - Newham
Kate Stockings - Camden, London
Katie Blake - Newham
Katie Mills - Brent, Haringey and Camden
Keir Chauhan - Haringey
Keith Ashenden - Tower Hamlets
Khadijah Haq - Islington
Kristian Harry Bridge - London
Laure Latham - Hammersmith & Fulham
Lauren Cook - Richmond
Lauren-Rachel Jones - Havering
Lesley Wertheimer - Southwark
Lily Connolly-Woods - Ealing
Lina Alchami - Westminster
Lisa Moretti - Lewisham
Lizzie Fletcher - Westminster
Luke Newcombe - Haringey
Maj El hichou - Haringey
Mar Peláez-Muñoz - Hounslow
Marlon Miller - Lewisham
Mary Kuper - Kensington & Chelsea
Matt Ponting - Newham
Matthew Jacob Ponsford - Lewisham, Southwark, Greenwich
Max Lawson - Tower Hamlets
Michael Green - Waltham Forest, Hackney, Redbridge, Islington
Michael Holland - Waltham Forest
Nat Cross-Padden - Merton
Nour Al Ahmad - Westminster
Omar Abu-Seer - Croydon
Oscar Maddocks - Haringey
Paul Youthed - Lewisham
Paula Harvey - Islington
Rachael Edwards - Merton
Regina Vetter - Hackney, Islington
Rich Clarke - Hounslow
Ricke Marc Anthony - Camden
Robert Walker - Sutton
Ronald Chan - Westminster
Rose Cowling - Southwark
Ross O'Ceallaigh - Tower Hamlets
Seb Dunnett - Hounslow
Simon Joshua - Harrow
Simon Mark Braidman - Harrow
Simon Saville - Lambeth
Sophia Jones - Haringey
Stephen Robert Passmore - Southwark
Sue Moore - Westminster
Theresa Caroline Web - Lewisham, Islington
Uma Mokhtarzadeh - Westminster, Kensington, Chelsea, Camden
Zara Taylor - Barking & Dagenham
