Penny Hunt has taught art for over 25 years as well as creating her own work from her studio in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Her work is about the little things that make up that landscape of freedom, the places where you feel the full force of wind and weather…
We know it is important for you as teachers to be able to choose the most relevant techniques and skills for your students to get the best out of their trip.The biology fieldwork courses at our centres are tailored to A Level, IB, GCSE, National and Higher…
Penny is Knepp’s resident ecologist, managing the Knepp Safaris team, volunteers and research students, and co-ordinating the biological monitoring of the rewilding project.Penny is passionate about biological recording, and loves to enthuse others with wildlife-watching. In her spare time, she’s having adventures moth trapping and bird-ringing.
This inspirational writing course is offered by Rebecca Hubbard, an experienced writer and writing tutor with a passion for helping people to explore and deepen their connection with natural places through words. Rebecca works as a gardener and writes. She is a published feature journalist and poet with her prose…
Led by Katy Boreham.
James Margeson is the lead geology tutor for FSC Blencathra. After leaving University of Liverpool with a Masters in Geology, he worked at Lochranza Field Studies Centre on the Isle of Arran before joining the team at Blencathra in 2016. He also holds the Summer Mountain Leader award and is…
An ex-English teacher, qualified meditation teacher and avid nature writer, Helen has spent more than a decade teaching creative writing, english literature, literacy, and meditation to adults and young people alike. She is a passionate advocate of the natural world and the part it can play in our creativity, and…
Mike Hoffmann heads up global wildlife recovery programmes at the Zoological Society of London. He has more than two decades of experience in international conservation, including having spent 10 years with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where he worked extensively on the Red List. He is the…
Jeremy studied Graphic Design at Southport College of Art, (1972-5) and Illustration at Harrow College of Art, London (1975-8) A professional artist and Illustrator since then, working on a wide variety of books, magazines, and greeting cards. Instructional watercolour, pastel, and gouache art books published by Search Press. Work commissioned by The…
David is one of the Senior Entomologists in Natural England and functional lead for Pantheon, the analytical tool used for analysing invertebrate assemblages. He was part of the team of 3 that designed and populated the dataset, working with other entomologists. He started his career as a contract upland vegetation…