Meet the Stroud Valleys Project team

Chief Executive

Clare has responsibility, under the overall guidance of the trustees, for developing and planning the strategic direction of the organisation to support its overall aims.

Operations Manager

Deb coordinates all issues relating to business and financial management within the organisation.

Project Office Manager

Carolyn is our office manager who takes care of the day to day running of the office, website, and Friends' memberships.

She is also our sustainability coordinator, encouraging good practice in all areas of our organisation, covering purchasing decisions, running our recycling scheme and ensuring we do everything we need to gain our Green Impact award accreditation.

Project Officer

Tamsin runs our OPCC-sponsored Wildworks group, as well as a Stroud-based allotment group and community engagement project in Stratford Park. She also looks after Wild Classrooms, an exciting project which aims to focus and support outdoor learning in schools in Gloucestershire.

Find out more about Wild Classrooms

Project Officer

Richard looks after a number of our volunteering groups, including groups at Rackleaze Wetlands, Stratford Park and Kingswood. He also co-ordinates our groups of volunteer woodworkers who supply our eco shop with some great wildlife products.

Richard holds a Great crested newts survey or research class licence (level 1) (CL08).

Project Officer

Fred is the project officer for the conservation projects at Capel’s Mill in Stroud and Sarah’s Field in Berkeley. He also runs our Carers in Nature project, which gives carers a chance to get out into nature.

Fred is highly skilled in many aspects of conservation and runs our popular scything workshops.

eco shop Supervisor

Emily runs our Threadneedle Street eco shop and is usually there Thursday to Saturday, making sure we have plenty of our eco-friendly cleaning, toiletries and wildlife-friendly basics in stock, as well as sourcing new and exciting eco product ranges.

Project Officer

Sharon is a project officer on our Garden Guardians, Wild Play, and Carers in Nature projects. She also helps out with event planning and runs operational projects.

Sharon also is our volunteering coordinator where she matches new volunteers to available volunteer roles.

Project Officer

Katherine runs a volunteer group at Prinknash Abbey to transform the walled garden in the grounds of the abbey into a productive kitchen garden, which provides fresh fruit and vegetables to be used or sold in the Abbey cafe.

Project Officer and Eco Hub Coordinator

Caroline is taking Katherine’s place at Prinknash while Katherine is on a short sabbatical. Caroline volunteered on various SVP garden projects before taking on this role.

Also, Caroline has taken on the Coordinator role for our new project - Eco Hub - see here for more information:

Eco-hub-2024

Project Officer

There are hugely ambitious plans to increase the tree cover in Gloucestershire and the Stroud area.

Stuart and his team will be planting some of those thousands of trees that will create the forests, parks and gardens of the future, and will care for them in their early years to ensure they can thrive.

Along with dozens of local volunteers, Stuart hopes to help make each planting season as productive as possible.

Communications and Fundraising Coordinator

Kerri’s role is to tell people about Stroud Valleys Project and how we’re improving our communities and our landscape; to forge new connections with people and organisations who share our values; and to help ensure our work receives the funding it needs to continue long into the future.

Alongside this, Kerri is also responsible for organising our programme of events.

If you have a media enquiry or would like to know more about any of our work, please email kerri@stroudvalleysproject.org.

Employment and Skills Coordinator

Alison is our Employment and Skills Coordinator, working to support people who have been out of the job market for a while to get back into work (paid or voluntary) or training.

Employment and Skills Coordinator

Shelley is our other Employment and Skills Coordinator, working to support people who have been out of the job market for a while to get back into work (paid or voluntary) or training.

Project Officer

Ruth is running a volunteer group on the Stroudwater Canal near Whitminster, restoring and creating habitats, particularly for water voles. She is co-ordinating with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) and other partners in the Cotswold Canal Connected project.

Ruth has experience as a volunteer with GWT, having taken part in many activities such as scrub clearance, tree planting and fencing at Robinswood Hill and building rain gardens at Kingsholm Rugby Stadium in Gloucester.

Ruth is also running the Wild Shed group, along with Susie, which undertakes a variety of conservation and food-growing projects in and around Stroud..