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Anna Birt

Meet learning and skills coordinator Anna . Anna is based in Gloucestershire and has been working for the Canal and river trust for many years delivering education programmes and inspiring children and their families to connect with their local canal and river spaces.

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Nowrujee Ali

Nowrujee leads educational engagement in the London area she is also a STEM co-ordinator, for the Canal & River Trust. Nowrujee is passionate about helping children and helping them to access green and blue spaces and regularly runs workshops for large classes. “Thank you for providing a really effective and supportive training session last week. […]

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Claire Cavendish

Claire is the learning and skills co-ordinator for Yorkshire and the North East. Claire gets to regularly work with her amazing group of Canal & River Trust volunteers at the amazing engineering landmark that is Tees Barrage. Miranda and I had enjoyed a recent visit there to help run a day of family sessions.

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Helen Evans

Helen is an amazing Education Co-ordinator at the Canal and River Trust and one of our In the Wild Leaders, she loves working with children and helping them to find calm at the Canalside. She is a joy to work with and her passion for her job shines through.

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Adrian Royston

Adrian Royston leads the Canal and River Trust explorer programme across the East Midlands. Part of Adrian’s role is to work alongside schools, community groups and local academies to offer hands on- outdoor learning. We loved delivering family wellbeing workshops alongside Adrian and had a particularly lovely moment at Foxton locks when we did Dragon […]

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Miranda de Freston

Hi I am Miranda, co-founder of Happy Confident Kids. I am passionate about well-being and having seen the transformational change in one of my own children hugely inspired to get more children access to the transformational tools we teach. I have a huge variety of experience in growing & promoting businesses as well as delivering […]

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Rosie Francis

Meet Coach Rosie, Rosie always has a smile to share and brings a calm vibe to any room. She is an NLP Master practitioner and also holds a degree in psychology. Rosie lives in South London with her husband and two young children, she loves helping children to thrive and works hard to get to […]

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Community Happy Confident Kids Coach

Laura Dumbleton-Jones

Hello I’m Laura and co founder of Happy Confident Kids. I am an NLP Master practitioner, qualified coach and hypnotherapist, and head up our coaching team. I live in Kenilworth with my husband Steve and our two children. My experience helping people started in my 16 year career at West Midlands Police, until I hung […]

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Anna McAuley

Say hello to Anna, based in Leicester she is one of our In the Wild Leaders. Anna is an experienced teacher and loves helping children to reach their full potential. “Working with the children is just incredible to have those initial connections… and teaching them ways and strategies that they can cope with life a […]

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