Current projects

Updated January 2023 – Here’s a summary of projects I’m working on. Click on the pics to find out more.


6As of Blanchland

6As of Blanchland – Supporting residents to plan for a Net-Zero Carbon, hyperlocal recovery, researching the Archaeology, Acoustics and Archives to develop the Audiences, Artisans and Abbey – their grade 1 listed church and its unique monastic village. www.blanchland.org


Rural Churches for Everyone

Helping PCCs to secure sustainable futures for their historic Northumbrian church buildings – a trial with 35 churches, in four rural benefice clusters. Co-creating a toolkit (published soon) to assess how ‘Open and Sustainable’ their church buildings are. https://www.newcastle.anglican.org/ruralchurchesforeveryone


Wild Allen Dales

Hyperlocal, community led action, creating a sustainable green recovery, rooted in the natural, cultural and social Supporting trustees of Fawside charity to develop a Community Climate Action Plan.


Half Acres Head rewilding

Regenerative management of our three acres: originally a pheasant farm, now blooming with a hay meadow, productive hedges, ponds, mini miyawaki forests, orchard, and a developing permaculture garden.