Lily Hardy
Director and tent mechanic at Camplight Cooperative. Beekeeper, craftsperson & vegetable growing enthusiast. Lily has been involved in many workers and housing co-opratives including Magpie recycling, Brighton Rock and Court Farm Collective and now Camplight; taking 1000s of tents from landfill and repurposing them at their hub in Somerset. She studied Craft at Brighton university and has a keen interest in Endangered Heritage Crafts. She is currently learning the endangered craft of skep making and hopes to run a community apiary on the land with the Wyld Service Cooperative.
Nick Hayes
Author, illustrator and co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign. Nick lives on a boat on the Thames and is currently writing his next book 'The Medicine Tree'. He is in charge of creating our future land library. He is editor of the recent Wild Service book, folk musician for ceilidh band Ramshackle and is learning the craft of walking stick making.
Nick Garnett & Emma Bowen
Nick Garnett has lived and worked as an artist in the cultural bad lands of Berkshire since graduating from Reading University in the early 90s. Leaving art collage somewhat disillusioned he and his partner in creative crime Emma Bowen spent several years eking out an existence as pavement artists/buskers in northern Europe during the summer seasons while producing affordable art pieces for sale on Birmingham ragg market during the cold winter months. The Folk art ethos that under pinned these years has remained central to his practice ever since. Nick runs a collective of artists and performers called the Annual Daydream Harvest.
Alice Richardson
Breath Practitioner and Director of Rising Rooted Village. Breathwork is an incredible tool to help combat all our modern day illnesses - depression, anxiety, disconnection, loneliness; it is our anchor into the present. Alice loves connecting people to their breath in nature and guides people back to finding their own innate ability to heal through conscious connected breathwork. Rising Rooted Village is a CIC based on home-schooling children whilst having nourishing offerings for the Mothers (and Fathers/caregivers). The intention is to raise children outdoors, in connection to ourselves, others and Mother Nature.
Ben Hansell
Ben is an organic vegetable grower currently managing a medium scale veg box scheme in outer Brighton. His main interests are in regenerative agriculture, building soil, preserving micro-biology and localised food systems. Within the cooperative he wants to grow food for the internal and external community, educate about the need for organic food, how to grow it and land management. He and Alice (his partner) are also tending their first beehive which is a growing interest. Together they hope to host nourishing retreats to encourage people to get back into their bodies, put their hands in the earth and together make healing nutritious food.
Nephele Swann
Nephele is an ecologist, vegetable grower and artist. She grew up travelling the English rivers and canals on narrowboats so also has a practical knowledge of living off grid. She completed a BSc in Environmental Science and an MSc in Agriculture and Ecology at the University of Reading and is passionate about regenerative land management, species and habitat conservation and environmental monitoring including plant transects, pollinator surveys and water quality analysis. Nephele has worked as a grower at tolhurst Organics, as a self employed gardener, at garden centres and is now a crop technician at the Sonning farm Crop Research Unit for the University of Reading, where research on diverse rotations, intercropping and low carbon methods are being conducted. Nephele has a lot of practical and theoretical knowledge of regenerative agricultural practices and conservation and would love to put them to use by growing organic vegetables and fruit for the community, surveying and promoting floral and faunal diversity in the surrounding habitats and also create as much art as possible along the way!
Nemone
Nemone is a communications and events manager with a background in filmmaking, photography and digital design and a passion for low-impact living and societal sustainability. Working with small ethical businesses and environmental charities she helps to refine and communicate their stories across a variety of media. She grows food on the small garden on the roof of the boat she lives on with her partner, Charlie, and their two kids, and runs a tiny gardening business with Emma.
Alison Richards (&Boris)
Ali is an educator from Devon who has taught ceramics and art up to A Level and paints using her own wild pigment collection from her studio in the south of France where she lives with her two dogs. Over the years she has taught and become an expert in raku pottery, large scale woolwork and fine art painting. She has a degree in fine art and a PGCE.
Rebecca Heaps (&Pushka)
Rebecca Heaps, Sustainability expert and founder of the revolutionary tent sharing platform Tentshare, promoting affordable and accessible camping by facilitating the sharing of camping equipment within local communities across the UK. Additionally, she serves as a Director of Camplight Cooperative, and is a fully qualified tent mechanic. Camplight successfully reduced tent waste at 13 festivals in 2023. Dedicated to fostering a regenerative and collaborative approach in business, Rebecca is positively impacting the planet.
Charlie Robinson
Claire Heath
​With an MSc in Science and Technology Policy for Sustainability, Charlie has spent the last few years designing and building UAV surveying technology, battery-operated and festival sound-systems as well as the systems on his off-grid, solar-powered, electrically propelled boat which he lives on with Nemone. He currently designs solar installations for a renewable energy co-operative and is exploring mycoremediation, precision agriculture and agrivoltaics for sustainable low-impact food production and carbon sequestration.
Managing director of The Skatehouse which offers free or low cost skateboarding lessons at youth clubs, public skateparks and UK festivals. All wooden skate ramps were built by Claire and members of the CIC.
Claire worked with Lily at the recycling cooperative Magpie in Brighton where they collected recyclable waste using electric milk floats. Claire has lived and worked in other co-ops and has an extensive knowledge on how both workers and housing co-ops are run.
In Claire's Masters in Craft at Brighton University they focused on ceramics with an emphasis on sustainably sourcing wild clay. Claire would be interested in taking this further with the Wyld Service cooperative, by running ceramics workshops using naturally dug and processed clay to teach throwing, hand building, and natural building (ovens and homes).
Claire is currently working and living in Australia, learning about Aboriginal culture, permaculture and eco-building, which she is learning from permaculture founder David Holmgren.
When Claire returns to England they are interested in setting up a forest school or alternative education space.