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Management team

Juno Hollyhock, Executive Director

Our Executive Director, Juno Hollyhock, joined Learning through Landscapes in January 2012.

Juno came to LTL from the academy sponsor Oasis where she was National Communications Manager focussing on the delivery of internal and external communications, events, marketing strategies and brand development across the organisation as well as supporting the delivery of 14 academies.

Juno’s background is in working with organisations that support children and young people in both the statutory and voluntary sectors at local, national and international levels. Her experience includes strategic development, fundraising and income generation, project management and evaluation and charitable governance.

Juno has a broad range of experience in the field of outdoor learning and children’s play and brings some practical hands-on knowledge to the role as she is a keen vegetable gardener and keeps chickens and pigs for eggs and meat!

Juno remains involved in a voluntary capacity with a number of charitable organisations including the Evelina Children’s Heart Organisation, the YMCA movement and the Global Rock Challenge.

Chloe Atkins, Development Manager

Chloe joined LTL in March 2011 and is responsible for developing projects into successful fundraising propositions.

With a degree in environmental studies Chloe previously worked in the public sector, including Southampton City Council and Hampshire County Council. She ran the external funding unit at Hampshire County Council providing funding and bidding support and advice to staff and the wider community across Hampshire. Chloe has also worked with rural local authorities in Ghana to build capacity and develop income generation skills.

Chloe brings with her a wealth of strong fundraising and project management skills and a good knowledge of lottery, government, European, trusts and foundations and sponsorship funding principles.

Dawn Ayling, HR/Office Manager

Dawn ensures that LTL operates efficiently by overseeing all our support services including administration, ICT and HR.

She is CIPD qualified and has more than 30 years experience providing and managing support and administrative functions in a range of organisations from the police service to BMW.

Dave Burchett, Operations Manager

David manages our network of LTL associates and ensures that all our programmes and training adhere to high quality standards. His background combines teaching with strong project management experience. For three years he taught in a junior school whose commitment to learning outside the classroom was recognised by Ofsted when it was awarded outstanding status. More recently he has worked for the not for profit sector and has set up several community-based projects and managed a range of large, complex statutory funded programmes.

His experience working with young people who have failed to achieve in the formal education sector has given him a passion for wanting to influence education to include experiential learning.

Irina Godfrey, Finance Manager

Irina joined the LTL trust in November 2007, working firstly as Finance Officer and then as Finance Project coordinator. In October 2011 she was promoted to Finance Manager.

Irina is responsible for management and budgetary control, financial reporting and compliance of all financial systems within the Trust.

With a teaching degree in Mathematics and a further degree in Finance (including Economics and Accounting) Irina has over sixteen years financial experience. She has achieved success in organisations both in the UK and internationally and is currently continuing her professional development studying towards CIMA.

Mary Jackson, Development and Delivery Adviser

Mary is responsible for development and delivery of LTL's specialist services, developing best practice and LTL's consultancy services. She is also responsible for managing the development and dissemination of LTL's evidence base to promote the case for outdoor learning and play.

Mary epitomises LTL’s dual perspective on education and design, having worked as a secondary teacher and a Chartered Landscape Architect. She is also an experienced trainer and holds a Certificate in Training Practice from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Having joined LTL in 1996 Mary has since worked with a wide range of schools and settings. She understands the differing perspectives of all those involved in the development of outside educational spaces, having worked for a range of clients involved with capital programmes, including local authorities, construction consortia and schools.

Stuart Parks, Marketing and Communications Manager

Before joining LTL, Stuart worked for the John Lewis Partnership as a Customer Service Manager and brings a strong customer orientation to our organisation. As Marketing and Communications Manager, he talks to hundreds of schools, settings and local authority staff helping us to maintain an informed understanding of the needs of all those we work with so that we can develop appropriate support and advice.

Stuart has a personal passion for archaeology. If he had his way children would be out digging up their grounds to learn about the past and he has managed to find some great projects that have done this!

Alastair Seaman, Strategic Development Manager (Scotland)

Alastair manages Grounds for Learning, LTL’s programme in Scotland. He is an experienced manager with a background in business, the environment and the charitable sector. 

After graduating from Edinburgh University he spent time in Uganda supporting rural communities to develop agriculture and agroforestry. Following an MSc from Oxford University he joined a Scottish woodland management firm, becoming a Company Director and gaining experience in a wide range of business management arenas. After 8 years in woodland management he took a diploma in International Development Management from the Open University and moved with his family to Nepal where he supported the transition of a large international charity towards more local governance and stronger indigenous management capacity. Since 2007 he has been leading our work in Scotland, combining his management and business experience with his passion for connecting children to nature.