Our staff
Sarah Jordan: Green Space for Health Programme Director
Sarah’s background is in environmental psychology, exploring the relationship between people and our natural environment. She has experience at a director level in both environmental and healthcare organisations, formerly as one of the founders and director of Hope for the Future, a climate and nature communications charity that supports communities to influence and achieve change. Sarah is passionate about the need for environment and healthcare sectors to work together for the benefit of people and our planet.
Dan Loveard: Green Space for Health Project Manager
Dan is an experienced project manager working across the environment and health sectors, leading nature-based projects from strategy through to delivery to support healthier communities and a healthier planet. Before joining CSH, he worked with organisations including Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, the RSPB and local government, delivering projects focused on nature recovery, community empowerment and green social prescribing, notably leading a project during COVID-19 to help reduce loneliness and social isolation through nature. Dan is involved in the management of a variety of projects through the NHS Forest programme, supporting healthcare sites integrate biodiversity and green space into their estates and care pathways, benefiting both people and nature. He currently works on the Healthy by Nature programme, supporting Nature Recovery Rangers embedded within NHS Trusts to strengthen the role of nature in prevention, recovery and community engagement. His work spans stakeholder partnership and engagement, research, resource development and training.
Neil Ingram: Trees and Woodlands Delivery Lead
Neil started at CSH in August 2023, and brings a decade of conservation forestry experience to support CSH’s delivery of tree planting on the NHS estate. He has a master’s degree in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources.
Lucy Kennedy: Senior Nature Recovery Ranger, Notts.
Lucy joined the team in June 2025 as Senior Nature Recovery Ranger covering Nottinghamshire. Lucy has 15+ years experience of bringing people together with gardening and nature, primarily in urban settings. Lucy has undertaken a range of roles that have seen her do everything from delivering training, developing volunteer schemes and improving inclusion and wellbeing opportunities. As well as enjoying the development and strategic side, Lucy has vast experience of practical gardening and conservation too. She isn’t afraid to get stuck in with digging, sawing and planting! Above all though, she enjoys sharing the joy of experiencing nature and the outdoors with other people. Lucy will supporting the other rangers in the ‘Healthy by Nature’ project, as well as working across five sites in Mansfield and Nottingham, improving the biodiversity, gardening spaces and opportunities for patients and communities to get involved.
Ruth Boyle: Nature Recovery Ranger, Dorset
Ruth Joined CSH as a Nature Recovery Ranger in June 2025. She is passionate about healing our relationship with nature and making green spaces accessible to all. Ruth has an academic background in life sciences, having graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the University of Bristol in 2024. She is also a recent graduate of a Woodland Skills training programme run by the charity Avon Needs Trees. With a passion for environmental justice, she has campaigned on sustainability issues, including a shift towards plant-based university catering, and is enthusiastic about building community, especially where this inspires nature connection with its associated health and wellbeing benefits.
Susannah O’Riordan: Nature Recovery Ranger, Hertfordshire
Susannah has worked in the conservation sector for over 20 years in a variety of roles with Butterfly Conservation and The Wildlife Trusts. She has led a wide range of projects focused on habitat creation and restoration, wildlife surveys, environmental education and community engagement. Passionate about connecting people with nature, Susannah loves inspiring others to discover the wildlife right on their doorstep. She’s especially enthusiastic about butterflies and moths—never missing a chance to set out the moth traps and share the magic of these often-overlooked creatures. Believing deeply in the positive impact of nature on both physical and mental wellbeing, Susannah enjoys exploring inclusive and creative ways to engage people with the natural world—whether through exercise, hands-on conservation, wildlife surveys, or art-based workshops.
Duika Burges Watson: Nature Recovery Ranger, Newcastle
Dr Duika Burges Watson is a researcher who has published extensively on altered eating and sensory issues, particularly working with patients experiencing sensory loss through cancer treatment, COVID-19, and other conditions. Her nature recovery work will focus on nature-based sensory opportunities that support both clinical health outcomes and biodiversity goals with measurable co-benefits for personal and planetary health. Duika has developed the concept of “rewilding the senses”—reconnecting with our full sensory capacity to perceive and connect with the biodiversity around us. Research demonstrates that when people engage their senses in natural settings, they experience measurable improvements in stress reduction, immune function, and emotional wellbeing. Sensory rewilding is grounded in more active development of sensory awareness and capacity. Her experience supporting people with sensory loss and altered eating, including collaborations with leading UK charities working on smell training—an evidence-based treatment widely used in clinical practice for olfactory dysfunction—positions her well to work with healthcare populations where sensory challenges and mental health concerns are common. She has recently completed a book manuscript exploring how sensory rewilding can transform our relationship with food, health and nature. For over a decade, Duika founded and led the Station Masters Community Wildlife Garden in North Tyneside, creating a thriving community space that has become a valued local asset. Her approach focuses on creating inclusive spaces where everyone becomes an expert of their own sensory experience while staying curious about how others perceive the world differently. Through food growing projects, sensory workshops, and hands-on biodiversity activities, she specialises in helping spaces become places where both people and nature can flourish together.
Emma Myers: Senior Nature Recovery Ranger, London
Emma joined the team in April 2026 as a Senior Nature Recovery Ranger based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust in London. Emma trained with the Royal Horticultural Society in 2008 and later read Occupational Therapy at LSBU going on to work as an occupational therapist for the NHS. She has a post-graduate diploma in Social & Therapeutic Horticulture. Emma worked as the Horticultural Therapist for Homerton Healthcare prior to joining CSH. She is part of the national Therapeutic Horticulture Stakeholder group and has published research as an investigator on green spaces and stroke care.
Ella Dixon: Nature Recovery Ranger, Bradford
Ella joined the team in April 2026 as the Bradford Nature Recovery Ranger. Before this role she worked for almost 9 years for a charity called Open Country, supporting people with disabilities to access and enjoy the countryside through a range of outdoor activities. This involved running a weekly conservation work party and walking groups, adapted cycling sessions and coordinating the volunteer supporters of this project. Ella will be working at key NHS sites across Bradford district improving the biodiversity and opening up new gardening spaces and opportunities for patients to get involved.
Matt Ross: Nature Recovery Ranger, Stockport and Tameside & Glossop
Matt is the new Nature Recovery Ranger across Stockport and Tameside & Glossop NHS trusts. He has had a lifelong love of nature, first inspired by watching butterflies in the local park when he was a boy. Thirty years later, his passion for insects – and all kinds of nature – is stronger than ever! For the last 15 years, Matt has worked in nature education, community work and green wellbeing. From 2017 to 2026 he worked with the Peak District National Park rangers, running Longdendale Environment Centre: a hub for school visits, community events and green social prescribing services focusing on nature connection He is also a Forest School leader, a health walk leader and runs nature skills courses. The common thread in all his work has been inviting people to tune in to the natural world, to find peace, joy and wonder – and to create connections that inspire environmental responsibility. Matt believes that nature and green space should be available as resources to all; he is an advocate for the benefits of nature play for people of all ages, and enjoys finding creative ways to engage people with green space. He will be working at Tameside and Stepping Hill hospitals, developing green spaces on site and delivering a programme of activities for staff and patients.
Liv Chester: Nature Recovery Ranger, Manchester
Liv is a community gardener, designer and builder of infrastructure in community green spaces with a background in community-led architectural projects and a keen interest in permaculture. She has nearly 10 years experience of working with communities in a variety of roles in urban gardens and green spaces. Recently, she’s co-led a new community plant nursery, delivered food growing sessions in a local community garden and project managed the creation of a new community orchard, forest garden and associated public workshop programme in a public park.
Charlotte Elvin: Nature Recovery Ranger, Liverpool
Charlotte was thrilled to join the team in April 2026 as Nature Recovery Ranger for University Hospitals of Liverpool Group. Charlotte’s professional background combines community engagement, health and wellbeing and practical land-based work. Previously Charlotte worked as an education and wellbeing specialist for a sexual health charity, exploring complex topics with young people and their families. Prior to this, Charlotte trained in horticulture and agroecology and spent several years working in community growing; developing projects that supported people to connect with nature in ways that feel accessible, inclusive and meaningful. Charlotte is most excited by work that addresses big systemic issues in practical, hands-on ways. Working with staff, patients and members of the wider community, they will support the health and wellbeing of the people and wildlife local to the 3 main hospital sites in the city. As well as implementing the trust’s Biodiversity Plan, Charlotte will be working alongside volunteers to sensitively redevelop community gardening spaces and on woodland management projects to support biodiversity in the beautiful woods at Aintree Hospital. They will be working alongside clinicians to develop and deliver a programme of nature-based wellbeing activities in green spaces across the trust’s estate.
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.