We have a team of people with experience working with a broad range of ages with a diverse set of skills. 

Our Directors

Steph Holland

Steph is the founder of The Hive - a self-confessed gatherer of lovely people, home educating mum, forest school leader and music teacher. She has spent the last ten years running various community groups in Bury St Edmunds for families and this project is the culmination of that journey. 

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Claire Unwin

Claire is a youth worker, forest school assistant and home ed mummy. She is passionate about creating space and opportunity for children and young people to develop confidence in their unique sets of skills and abilities, and believes there is no better place to nurture this than outside surrounded by the natural world - preferably up a tree picking an apple! She is also an enthusiastic home gardener and veg grower, and is currently studying permaculture.

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Helen Hopkin-Jones

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Founding Members - The Hive's original guarantors

Stephanie Holland
Claire Unwin
Kimberley Goldsmith
Adam Surgenor
Cristina Froehner
Debbie Willis
Eleanor Boreham
Emma Pollard
​Emmie Stocking

Grzegorz Skic
Gina Roark
Helen Hopkin-Jones
Helen Vicat
​Jody Manning
Paula Burl
Pauline Goodchild
​Sarah Chandler
​Tina Gibbons

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Supporters

Associate Members

West Suffolk Council
Bush Adventures UK CIC
Orchard Barns CIC
Nature Explorers
St Edmundsbaby Organisation
West Suffolk Home Education Hub
Centred in Nature
​Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Our Bury St Edmunds BID
Happy Food Coop
Sustainable Bury
​Happy Planet Heroes Bury St Edmunds
​East of England Training
Alde Garden
​Pico Planet
Limelight Print and Design
​Oakes Barn
​Greener Growth
Bury Water Meadows Group
BSE Rickshaws

Bronze Members
Centred in Nature
Creative Education Centre Suffolk

Silver Members
Our Bury St Edmunds BID

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