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Core team
Core team
Lesley Sharpe

Lesley Sharpe

Consultant - Farming Environment

Lesley Sharpe

lesley.sharpe@sherwoodforestttrust.org.uk

Job Title: Consultant – Farming Environment

Role with Sherwood Forest Trust: Running the ‘Guardians of Sherwood’ project. Advising Sherwood Forest farmers on the Countryside Stewardship Scheme, Woodland Management Plans and environmental practise.

Past experience: Studied Countryside Management at Brackenhurst College. Member of Nottinghamshire’s Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG). Co-ordinates the Championing the Farmed Environment partnership (Notts & Derbys.) Part time Agricuture & Water Advisor for Trent Rivers Trust (South Trent Catchment.)

I’m passionate about… British farms, and the belief that productive farming and good environmental practise should work hand in hand.

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Andy Hollis (Ecologic)

Andy Hollis (Ecologic)

Ecologic Sherwood CIC is a local environmental management consultancy with more than 30 years’ experience carrying out management work on Nottinghamshire’s nature reserves and green spaces. Ecologic is a Community Interest Company (CIC) dedicated to creating healthy working and learning environments, and encouraging individuals to improve their physical and mental health, through the provision of training, volunteer opportunities, work experience and personal development programmes, primarily within the environmental and land-based sector.

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Mercian Archaeological Services

Mercian Archaeological Services

http://mercian-as.co.uk

Mercian Archaeological Services, run as a Community Interest Company, is an independent research company providing archaeological services and advice. We specialise in community archaeology, public involvement and training.

Our Sherwood Forest office is at Ransom Wood Business Park near Mansfield.

We have a longstanding interest in the Sherwood Forest area and run the Sherwood Forest Research Project. We have worked productively with numerous local groups, for example the Battle of Hatfield Investigation Society and the Friends of Thynghowe, and led community archaeology projects for the Sherwood Forest Trust such as the ‘Discover King John’s Palace’ project at Kings Clipstone. We are currently helping deliver the Trust’s ‘Spirit of Wartime Sherwood’ project, investigating WW2 remains in the Forest.


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