Achieving Results in Communities

About ARC

ARC supports people to access and engage with nature and community to improve their mental and physical wellbeing.

ARC delivers projects that support people to access and engage with nature

Sessions with adults in nature for mental health and wellbeing

Supporting children and young people to engage with nature

Creating or transforming garden and woodland spaces

Providing services to support other organisations

Wellbeing and Nature

There is mounting evidence that being in nature can make positive contributions to mental and physical health and wellbeing. Helping people to create and sustain such open spaces is empowering for individuals and helps to build stronger communities.

Meet the Team

Eleanor Brown

Staff

Eleanor has spent over 20 years working in community wellbeing projects; as a youth worker, in rites-of-passage work, in training as a mountain leader and working on a community farm growing organic food and running volunteer groups. She is also a musician and is passionate about holistic wellbeing and our connection to nature.

Erica Miles

Staff

Erica has over 30 years’ experience in disability and wellbeing, including direct support, social work, and project leadership. She works part-time with a Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation on engagement and policy. Passionate about nature, she champions gardening and outdoor activity as vital for physical and mental wellbeing.

Kath Pasteur

Director & ARC Manager

Kath has been a Director and staff member of ARC since 2012 and now manages the organisation. She is passionate about nature and is convinced of the many and varied benefits to health and wellbeing of spending time outdoors.

Anna Hargrave

Director

Anna is passionate about addressing the wider determinants of health as evidenced by her most recent roles as Chief Population Health Officer in Coventry and Warwickshire and Chief Commissioning and Strategy Officer at GambleAware.

Naomi Nicholson

Director

Naomi has a background in regulatory frameworks and performance, in the education and health sectors. She now works as a freelancer and supports a mentoring programme for girls.

Fiona Cotterell

Director

Fiona is a qualified accountant who has been working in the not-for-profit sector for over 30 years in the UK and abroad, helping local community groups with their financial management.

Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown

Staff

Eleanor has spent over 20 years working in community wellbeing projects; as a youth worker, in rites-of-passage work, in training as a mountain leader and working on a community farm growing organic food and running volunteer groups. She is also a musician and is passionate about holistic wellbeing and our connection to nature.

Erica Miles

Erica Miles

Staff

Erica has over 30 years’ experience in disability and wellbeing, including direct support, social work, and project leadership. She works part-time with a Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation on engagement and policy. Passionate about nature, she champions gardening and outdoor activity as vital for physical and mental wellbeing.

Kath Pasteur

Kath Pasteur

Director & ARC Manager

Kath has been a Director and staff member of ARC since 2012 and now manages the organisation. She is passionate about nature and is convinced of the many and varied benefits to health and wellbeing of spending time outdoors.

Anna Hargrave

Anna Hargrave

Director

Anna is passionate about addressing the wider determinants of health as evidenced by her most recent roles as Chief Population Health Officer in Coventry and Warwickshire and Chief Commissioning and Strategy Officer at GambleAware.

Naomi Nicholson

Naomi Nicholson

Director

Naomi has a background in regulatory frameworks and performance, in the education and health sectors. She now works as a freelancer and supports a mentoring programme for girls.

Fiona Cotterell

Fiona Cotterell

Director

Fiona is a qualified accountant who has been working in the not-for-profit sector for over 30 years in the UK and abroad, helping local community groups with their financial management.

Kristie Naimo

Kristie Naimo

Director

Kristie established ARC in 2011 and managed the organisation until 2023. She continues to serve as an ARC Director whilst now working for Live and Local, which supports voluntary organisations to bring high quality live entertainment to rural communities.

Chris Golby

Chris Golby

Director

Chris is a big advocate of using tech as an enabling tool for helping people. He has a background in computer science (BSc and industry experience of software engineering) and a PhD from Warwick University in Digital Healthcare, where he also stayed on as a Research Fellow, working on research projects with leading universities and the NHS.

Catherine Shephard

Catherine Shephard

Director
Staff

Cat has over 16 years of experience within the education sector. She moved away from classroom based teaching to focus on wellbeing work for Mind. Initially joining as a Director she became so passionate about ARC and is now also a facilitator for Adult Wellbeing in Nature sessions at Foundry Wood and Packmores Garden.

Teresa Johnston

Teresa Johnston

Freelancer

Teresa (Tree) established the hugely popular and successful Foundry Wood Wellbeing group in 2015. She has struggled with her own mental health over many years and brings a highly valued ‘lived experience’ to our decision making. She continues to co-deliver Foundry Wood Wellbeing and supports several ARC projects as a staff member.

Kate Haines

Kate Haines

Staff

Kate qualified as a teacher in the 1990's and has spent time teaching in primary schools in Africa, the Middle East, Australia and the UK. She currently works as the Foundry Wood education officer leading environmental education sessions at Foundry Wood. She is also a trained Forest School Leader and runs sessions for preschoolers. Kate is passionate about getting children outdoors in all weathers so they can connect with nature and the seasons.

Agnes Ashbell

Agnes Ashbell

Staff

Agnes has spent her working life immersed in nature, teaching practical and emotional skills to all ages. She has ran intensive, wilderness-based courses for young people referred through the criminal justice system, lead mountain expeditions, is a Forest School Leader and supports delivery of ARC’s Children’s Forest Project and Wellbeing in Nature courses.

Lucie Cox

Lucie Cox

Staff

Lucie designs landscapes that support resilient nature regeneration and supports community garden projects. She helped establish Packmores and Lyttelton Gardens, the Art in Nature programme and the Living Labyrinth at All Saints Church. She celebrates the power of gardens to bring people together, nurture wellbeing and support local wildlife.

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