Huckleberries Nurture Farm

Bev serves as the Managing Director, Nurture Group Leader, and Designated Safeguarding Lead for Huckleberries, bringing a wealth of expertise to her role.  She is an accredited Nurture Practitioner through NurtureUK, Youth Mindfulness Practitioner, and a dedicated environmentalist.  

Bev is an eternal optimist, a strategic, systems thinker, and she believes in the power of collaboration, hard work, and staying true to one’s values, to achieve great things. She spent her first career as an environmental consultant in the sustainable construction sector, working with clients, architects and engineers to embed sustainability into the built environment, working on some complex and fun projects such as Heathrows Terminal 5, London 2012, and Transforming UCL.

As a parent to three children and a school governor for 13 years, Bev holds a deep understanding of the escalating mental health crisis facing young people, and recognises the role that education and social systems play in this crisis. Through  her passion to improve outcomes for children and her love of all things outdoors,  Bev founded Huckleberries Nurture Farm in her back garden in 2019, to demonstrate the regenerative potential of positive connection between humans, nature and animals. During 2020 she developed the new site in Elstead, with her family and friends, which has been open to children since June 2020.

Bev believes children and young people don’t need ‘fixing’, rather it’s their environment that needs to change, and the way we hold space for them, to just be their amazing authentic selves.  

Ant is the Chief Technology Officer for Triad Group Plc by day, Scout Leader at 7th Farnham by night, and Huckleberries agricultural engineer (fence posts mostly!) by weekend – he also looks after the books! Ant grew up at a residential outdoor pursuits centre in north Wales. ‘Bryntysilio’, owned by the Walsall Schools Holiday Camp Trust, and converted and run by his mother and father from 1969 specifically for the benefit of disadvantaged children, and continues to provide adventure activity courses today. It was this introduction to the outdoors that sparked Ants interest at an early age into rock climbing, canoeing, mountaineering and sailing, hobbies he continues to enjoy with his family and as an active Scout leader in Elstead. alongside his passion to help vulnerable children through his involvement in Huckleberries.

Tamzin is a qualified Forest School Leader and nature specialist.  She has been practicing Forest School education with children and schools since 2012.  She has a passion for all things outdoors, whatever the weather, from camping and bushcraft to butterfly identification!

Having enjoyed many muddy adventures with her husband and daughter, her mission is to provide as many children as possible with the opportunity to connect with nature and create the next generation of conservationists.  Tamzin is a qualified paediatric level 3 and Forest School first aider.

Mairead has been involved with Huckleberries, teaching yoga and helping to develop the programme since its embryonic days in 2018.  After spending many years teaching English Language and Literature to children and teenagers in Hong Kong, South Korea and London, Mairead moved to Surrey with her family and re-trained as a Yoga Teacher. She trained in London for two years at the prestigious Triyoga as well as completing further training to teach yoga to children and teens.  Mindful meditation underpins her teaching, providing an opportunity to fall still and discover what it means to be quiet, to reflect and to look inside.

For more information about Maireads classes and retreats see https://www.maireadamosyoga.com/

Dale is passionate about the outdoors, mental health and supporting children emotionally. She has a background in journalism, the arts and mental health.  She is presently pursuing a MA in Art therapy at Roehampton University as a part-time student.  Prior to joining Huckleberries Dale worked as an Emotional. Literacy Support Assistant and Learning Support Assistant at a local school. She has also volunteered at and worked for several charities, usually combining her passions for art and emotional well-being.  She is qualified to deliver therapeutic arts interventions, often working 1:1 with the children at Huckleberries, and continues to build her mindfulness practice, recently participating in a forest bathing retreat.