Meet our TSP Team

Our Transitional Support Programme team brings together outdoor leaders, storytellers, and creative practitioners who believe that nature, play, and connection are powerful tools for change. Our team create safe, welcoming spaces where children can build confidence, explore emotions, and feel truly seen, whether through woodland adventures, quiet reflection, or shared moments of joy.

Grounded in trauma-informed, child-centred practice, the team supports children through periods of transition by nurturing emotional regulation, resilience, and readiness for what comes next.

Every programme is shaped around the individual child, with clear, meaningful outcomes that place wellbeing, connection, and long-term positive development at the heart of the work.

Sarah

Sarah brings a deeply nurturing, nature-led approach to her work at Wild Embers, seeing the natural world as the ultimate classroom - a place to explore curiosity, connection, and our innate life force. A certified rewilding guide and mentor, Forest School Leader, and holistic and Thai massage therapist, she combines gentle playfulness, presence, and fun at the heart of everything she does. With a professional background in learning disability nursing and social work, and over a decade of experience supporting young people with SEND, Sarah has worked extensively across community settings and forest school environments. She is passionate about children’s wellbeing and is committed to creating spaces where every child feels truly listened to, safe, welcomed, and deeply connected through a strong sense of belonging. Above all, Sarah treasures being a mother to two young boys, whom she describes as her greatest teachers, constantly reminding her of the power of curiosity, nature, and learning through lived experience.

Anna

Anna brings a deep love of nature, creativity, and alternative education to Wild Embers, backed by over 15 years of experience in education. A Forest School teacher for seven years, she now works with a range of outdoor education teams across South Devon, championing learning that happens beyond the classroom walls. Alongside her work with Wild Embers, Anna runs her own education platform, Wylde Hearth, collaborates closely with Blackberry Barn, and can often be found leading workshops at events across the country. Her background also includes working alongside wild food author and forager Miles Irving, teaching foraging skills and wild food preparation rooted in connection to land and season. A maker as well as an educator, Anna creates beautiful jewellery inspired by nature and indigenous crafts. With a rich blend of Forest School knowledge, bushcraft skills, and creative flair, she brings curiosity, warmth, and a little wild magic to everything she does.

Chris

Chris is an outdoor leader who believes wholeheartedly in the power of nature to build confidence, nurture wellbeing, and create moments of pure joy. A qualified Hill & Moorland Leader and trained in Outdoor First Aid, he brings years of experience supporting children and young people to thrive in outdoor environments. Alongside his work with Wild Embers, Chris leads Duke of Edinburgh expeditions across the country, guides walks on Dartmoor, and runs archery sessions, always with the same aim: to get people outdoors, having fun, and discovering what they’re capable of. Whether navigating open moorland or introducing someone to archery for the first time, Chris brings enthusiasm, calm leadership, and a genuine love of the outdoors to everything he does.

Cameron

Cameron brings a deeply thoughtful, playful, and story-rich approach to his work at Wild Embers, creating spaces where children feel safe, accepted, and truly at home, even if just for a short while. He believes in the power of play, imagination, laughter, and shared wondering, alongside the quiet strength of listening and presence. Originally studying Physical Geography (BSc), Cameron’s love of nature grew into years of learning practical bushcraft, ancestral skills, and outdoor living. A deeper calling soon followed: making these experiences accessible to young people who may find them harder to reach. For the past seven years, Cameron has worked extensively with children and young people with SEN, SEMH, and additional needs across specialist schools, alternative provisions, home education settings, holiday clubs, bushcraft camps, and forest schools throughout South Devon. Growing up exploring Devon’s streams and woodlands, Cameron believes that access to the outdoors is every child’s birthright, and a powerful environment for emotional processing and healing. He trusts that when given time, space, and the right support, each child will show us what they need and reveal their own unique genius. Alongside his hands-on experience, Cameron holds a Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills, a Foundation Certificate in Outdoor Education Leadership, and is a qualified Paddlesport Leader. His current passions include storytelling, folk songs, animal tracking, canoeing, and Dartmoor tales shared around the campfire, balanced always with an appreciation for silence, and what can be gently spoken into it. As Cameron puts it, listening to a young person is a lot like following an animal track: noticing the smallest signs, understanding where they’ve been, and helping them choose a path that leads somewhere good.

Lucy

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Tara

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