Who We Are
Enrich the Earth is a collaborative campaign created by a coalition of expert organisations helping each other to make more informed and impactful environmental choices. Our partners include environmental charities, horticulturalists, retailers, academics and trade organisations.
This campaign is powered by Sizzle: an innovative platform that supports organisations to explore and develop ground-breaking solutions. Sizzle strives to push boundaries and discover fresh approaches that can drive meaningful change.
We are independently funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: an organisation committed to enhancing and preserving our natural world.
Meet the team
Project Director
Simon Blackhurst
BSc (Hons) Applied Chemistry, MCIH, MBPR (Hort) FQA
Simon Blackhurst is the expert lead on the peat alternative trials that will run in the Northeast of England. He has extensive technical and practical experience built within the horticultural sector, holds a Member Chartership of Horticulture award and has run a composting facility producing over 16 million bags of growing media a year.
Community Engagement
Pam Jose
BSc (Hons) Applied Chemistry, MCIH, MBPR (Hort) FQA
Pam has worked in the Environment sector for over thirty years. She ran her own recycling business in the Northeast of England, and worked with many partnerships including community groups, local authorities, NGO’s and the private sector.
She helped develop the networking and mapping of the North East Environmental sector, working with the Regional Development Agency. Pam has also worked extensively to develop partnerships within the environment sector in other English regions and the devolved administrations, through the UK Environmental Industries Federation.
She is a keen gardener and has been gardening organically for 25 years.
Advisor
Trewin Restorick
Trewin Restorick was the Founder and CEO of Hubbub UK which has twice won ‘Charity of the Year’ for transforming the way environmental messages are communicated by bringing people and organisations together as a force for good. Trewin was recognised as a Global Leader of the Year by the Global Good Awards, in 2021, he won the Business Green ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ and in 2022 voted by peers as the most influential person in the UK’s recycling and resource sector. Trewin is now starting Sizzle looking at how to bring organisations together to make is as easy as possible for people to live greener lifestyles.
Legislative Advisor
Peter Young
Peter is a seasoned environmentalist, currently acting as an independent trustee, chair and advisor. Peter has sat on various Government and independent bodies concerned with environmental regulation and voluntary standards.
He co-founded two campaigning organisations; the Aldersgate Group, which he formerly chaired, and the Broadway Initiative, which he currently chairs. He sits on Esmee Fairbairn’s Our Natural World Advisory Panel, and is a Trustee of Cumbria Wildlife Trust.