Healthy Planet's key teams include our trustees, our
Conservation Advisory Board (CAB), our priceless volunteers and our
founder. They all have one thing in common: They are passionate
about the future of our children and our planet.
Our Trustees
- Mr Nevil Kapadia (also chair of Health Advisory Board)
- Phil Astles, Kidd Rapinet Lawyers (Partner)
- Vanessa Guthrie, Mighten Consultancy (Director)
- Stuart Blake (Creative Director)
Our Conservation Advisory Board (CAB)
This board is chaired by King's College's Dr Mark Mulligan,
developer of the Land Adoption concept. Find out more about
the CAB here.
Our General Advisory Board
The members are:
- Scott J King, Marketing Consultant
- Adrian Gosling, Third Sector Education Consultant
- Roger Hamilton, Business Patron
What about the rest of the team?
As we are mainly online and new, we are a very lean team and
expect to stay that way. We do a lot of the work ourselves and have
simple offices we share with other businesses to keep costs low -
this ensures that almost all of your money goes where you want it
to.
There are a lot of people in our team who provide us with
voluntary (pro-bono) help, for example in book-keeping, design,
research, translation and legal advice. If you have time and skills
to offer that can help us achieve our goals please get in touch at
headgardener@healthyplanet.org.
+ Our
Founder
Conservation Coordinator
Olivia Couchman
| | As the conservation coordinator I run the adopt-a-plot programme, keeping in contact with the project partners, collating information on the work that Healthy Planet is funding and looking for new conservation initiatives that Healthy Planet would be interested in supporting. I am excited to be part of a charity that is innovatively funding conservation projects around the world and am especially pleased that I can walk to work in 8 minutes. |
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Accounts and PA
Simi Sangha
| | My role involves preparing company accounts for audits and assisting in the management of financial accounts such as trail balances, cash flows, lead schedules etc. Preparation and submission of VAT and PAYE tax returns for Healthy Planet. I’m also a PA to the founder of Healthy Planet.
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Project Co-ordinator
Jess Goodale
| | My role involves co-ordinating volunteers in our Books for Free shops around the country and ensuring that these projects all run smoothly.
I also co-ordinate the Empty Spaces initiative, in which I build a partnership with other charities, social enterprises and like-minded organisations whereby they can run their projects from one of our empty spaces in collaboration with Healthy Planet to make a difference to our planet.
This role is extremely rewarding and full of surprises, I love working with an organisation that is constantly growing and changing.
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Operations Manager
Bryan Jersky
| | My role is to manage the day to day operations of Healthy Planet, supporting the innovative activities our charity undertakes, by working with both the Healthy Planet team and collaborating with many different partners.
Born and raised in California, I studied Psychology and Politics at the University of Arizona. I then obtained my Masters in Administrative Social Work from San Diego State University, where I refined my skills in strategic planning and programme development with a focus on charities and non-profits. I worked at a non-profit in San Diego, California for five years, developing new programmes for communities in need, but with an itch to explore the world, my partner and I moved to London in October 2009. Due to my passion for sustainable foods, I worked and volunteered at a number of city farms and foodie organisations, before finding a great opportunity at Healthy Planet, first as the Project Coordinator, and now as the Head Gardener (Operations Manager). I am thrilled to be part of such an innovative, environmental charity and enjoy being able to walk to work, as it gives me more time to make a mess in the kitchen, where I love to cook using the wonderfully fresh and nutritious ingredients London has to offer!
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