Meet our training team and sustainability experts
Jason Shilcock
Head of Training and Advice
Jason is our Head of Training and Advice responsible for developing Cynnal Cymru’s training offer, managing our training team to achieve the highest standards of professionalism, and leading on our continuous improvement culture.
Jason is passionate about community renewable energy 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.
As an advanced ‘siaradwr newydd’, Jason is fully bilingual and can provide training in both Welsh and English.
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 over 15 years and during this time he has been Mayor of Chepstow for three consecutive years and more recently the Mayor of Monmouth where he has championed sustainable and environmental projects for Monmouth Town Council.
Farah Lodhi-Jones
Senior Sustainability Advisor
Chris Woodfield
Sustainability Trainer
Chris is passionate about systems change and facilitating the transformational shift to a zero carbon and regenerative society. At Cynnal Cymru he provides expert training and facilitation to a wide range of organisations and sectors.
Chris believes in the power of play, nature connection and taking a compassionate, collaborative and curious approach to facilitating change. He’s excited about using the potential of futures thinking and visioning, and co-imagining the more beautiful world we know is possible. Chris holds an MSc Sustainability and Adaptation from the Centre for Alternative Technology.
Chris specialises in systems thinking, creative and compassionate facilitation, futures thinking and pro-environmental behaviour change.
Training associates
Louise Cartwright
Sustainability Advisor (Associate)
Louise is an associate Sustainability Advisor for Cynnal Cymru, helping to deliver Carbon Literacy and Nature Wise courses to a wide range of clients.
Having worked within the charitable, environmental, and horticultural sectors for over fifteen years, Louise has developed specialisms in both land-based training and local food production. Louise holds a master’s degree in Product Design, with additional qualifications in permaculture and biodynamic land management. With previous experience of setting up and managing a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) vegetable box scheme business, Louise now lives with her partner on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, aspiring to self-reliance.
In her spare time, Louise works with various community groups and organisations, to deliver training in organic horticulture and biodynamic gardening.
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Job opportunities
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