Our staff
Liz Rees: Green Space for Health Director (maternity cover)
Liz has worked in project management and senior leadership roles in a diverse range of organisations across the third sector for over 15 years. She is a committed climate campaigner and advocate for systems thinking. Liz is passionate about creating access to green space for marginalised communities, active travel, the move to a plant-based food system and helping people learn how to grow food in small urban spaces. Outside of her role with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, she also sits on the board of a social enterprise in Cardiff which provides learning and opportunities for the local community to take action on the climate and nature crisis.
Dan Loveard: Green Space for Health Project Lead
Dan is an experienced community lead having spent a decade managing and delivering a diverse range of environmental and health projects across the UK. He comes to us from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust where he played an active role both operationally and strategically in bringing about nature’s recovery and connecting people from all walks of life with nature. This included managing a successful green health project during Covid, focussing on reducing loneliness and social isolation in communities along with delivering habitat creation and restoration projects in collaboration with communities and partner stakeholders to help transform those spaces for nature and people. Dan manages our Trees Call to Action Fund programme, supporting and advising NHS sites looking to improve their estates for biodiversity, climate and human health.
Harriet White: Woodland Creation and Tree Planting Project Manager
Harriet joined the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in August 2023 and project manages our woodland creation and tree planting projects on NHS Sites across the UK. She has worked in the UK and in Gambia, West Africa on agroforestry projects with a focus on food security. Most recently, she has run a busy programme of woodland management, tree planting and conservation projects for The Conservation Volunteers, Essex. She is passionate about the wellbeing benefits of engaging with the natural environment and is currently completing an MSc in Agroforestry and Food Security.
Neil Ingram Woodland Creation and Tree Planting Technical Officer
Neil started as Woodland Creation and Tree Planting Technical Officer in August 2023. He brings a decade of conservation forestry experience to support CSH’s delivery of Defra grant funded tree planting on the NHS estate. He has a Master’s degree in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources.
Jacqueline Cutting: Head of Fundraising, CSH
Jacqueline is a fundraiser with extensive experience of the third sector. She worked for Oxfam for 10 years, managing the organisation’s Trusts and Institutional funding, and as a freelance fundraiser. Most recently she set up fundraising for an Oxford-based theatre, and advised a national charity on fundraising for dementia care before joining CSH.
Nick White: Nature Recovery Ranger, Liverpool
Nick has over 25 years’ experience in countryside management and community engagement. He’s worked at both a strategic and operational level, leading nature conservation and community engagement projects across urban parks, hospital grounds, countryside sites and woodlands, including two SSI Nature Reserves. Based in hospitals in Liverpool, Nick is responsible for delivering a programme of work which helps improves biodiversity and the health and wellbeing of staff and patients.
Una Devlin: Green Space for Health Communications, Marketing and Engagement Lead
Una brings a diverse skill set to her role as Communications, Marketing, and Engagement Lead with a varied background in communications, community engagement, and creative learning. She has worked for organisations including the BBC, the NHS and a wide variety of social inclusion projects in the charitable sector. Her expertise lies in strategic content development and creation, video production, copywriting, journalism, and creating engaging learning materials as well as designing and facilitating workshops.