SOMEONE with a ‘positive and passionate’ attitude to work who likes rural living is being sought to take on the role as lead cook at the field studies centre at Malham Tarn. The successful applicant will be expected to feed hundreds of hungry schoolchildren and their teachers on residential trips to the former hunting lodge of the Victorian MP and philanthropist, Walter Morrison, who died in 1921. Tarn House, on the banks of Malham Tarn, the highest marl lake in the UK, is owned by the National Trust and leased to the Field Studies Council. It is surrounded by a 360 acre nature reserve and when lived in by Walter Morrison was visited by the rich and famous, including Charles Kingsley, who was said to have been inspired by the tarn to write his book The Water Babies’ , as well as Charles Darwin and John Ruskin.
Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kirsten was a teacher, researcher and garden educator with Earthjustice, the School for Field Studies, and Phillips Academy at Andover. Her career spanned from leading experiential education programs in the U.S. and Ecuador to evaluating school feeding programs in Ghana. She is an Ashoka Fellow, Aspen Institute Environmental Fellow, member of the Culinary Institute of America’s Sustainable Business Leadership Council and past mentor for the Women’s Initiative Fellowship Program
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Kirsten Saenz Tobey and Kristin Groos Richmond founded Revolution Foods in 2006, and they have been giving millions of children across America access to nutritional meals ever since.
Rehna Yaseen, a mentor on Outward Bound Trustâs Outdoor Leadership course An outdoor leadership course for young people from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds has been launched. The course is part of by a project by a coalition of outdoor education providers led by YHA (England & Wales). Already 15 new jobs have been created through the Generation Green project which will help more young people get outside and connect with nature. Ensuring YHA maximises its reach amongst young people through its Generation Green funded projects, the charity has recruited a 12-strong volunteer Youth Advisory Team, which includes Louise Thompson (23), a sustainable product design graduate who is currently unemployed.