Training Team
Meet our training team
Bethan Harvey
Sustainability Trainer
Bethan is a Certified Carbon Literacy Trainer (CLT) and has over four years of training experience, including a Professional Graduate Certificate (PGCE) in Adult Education & Training. She led on the development of our first Carbon Literacy online open course, launched in 2020, attracting attendees from around the world and has since delivered training to hundreds of learners across different sectors and roles.
Bethan specialises in the design and delivery of new courses to support learners at any stage of their journey to understand why and how they can take action for a sustainable future. From Climate and Nature Essentials to leadership and train-the-trainer courses, Bethan’s collaborates with each client to create an accessible and empowering experience across a whole organisation.
Sara Wynne-Pari
Training and Development Officer
Sara is the lead trainer and project manager for Nature Wise, our eco-literacy training programme, helping organisations in Wales to improve their understanding of the nature crisis and take action to reverse it.
Dedicated to empowering and helping others on their sustainability journey she believes in building inclusive and collaborative, cross-sector partnerships, ensuring best practice, innovation and creativity are at the heart of solutions.
She specialises in pro-environmental behaviour change and supporting and mentoring environmental volunteer organisations.
Sylvia Davies
Sustainability Trainer
Sylvia is our lead trainer on Carbon Literacy in English and Welsh. She also delivers Nabod Natur – Nature Wise.
Sylvia loves being a Sustainability Trainer because she gets the privilege of seeing organisations find their niche on the path to sustainable development and recognising where they can make impactful change. She is also a perpetual learner and always seeks to gain knowledge, insight and feedback from those she trains in order to inform and improve her pedagogy and future courses. “Every day is a learning day” is very much her motto.
Jason Shilcock
Sustainability Trainer
Jason is extremely passionate about community renewable energy (the subject of his master’s thesis) and raising awareness about the climate and nature emergency, which is why he sees Cynnal Cymru’s sustainability training as such an important tool in promoting the environment, mitigating climate change and learning how to reduce our impact on nature and our surroundings.
With several years’ experience teaching English as a second language, Jason understands how individuals learn in diverse ways, and designs and adapts his tutoring to make sure everyone can get the most out of their Carbon Literacy or Nature Wise training.
Jason has been learning Welsh for over eight years, reaching Advanced level and referring to himself a “siaradwr newydd” (new Welsh speaker).
Tom Kirton
Training and Communications Officer
Tom provides customer support across our whole training programme. Responding to customer queries, booking enquiries and providing technical support to both clients and the training team.
Outside of work Tom has been a Town councillor in Monmouthshire for 15 years and during this time he has been Mayor of Chepstow for three consecutive years where he has championed sustainable and environmental projects for Chepstow Town Council.