Meet the Let's Go Zero advisory group
They support us by speaking up on climate issues and the move to zero emissions.
They also offer advice to our leadership team on policies and effectively delivering a just transition to zero carbon across UK schools. They have been selected for their passion, vision, values, accountability, experience in stakeholder engagement, inquisitiveness, diversity, a learning mindset, and excellence in external engagement.
Adam Flint
Adam is the Education Manager at Keep Britain Tidy where he manages delivery of the Eco-Schools programme and oversees the running of the upcoming Count Your Carbon tool. Previously, Adam managed MADE, Manchester’s Cultural Education Partnership, and before that he developed schools programming at the Science Museum Group for 10 years.
Adam has worked extensively with schools, co-creating arts and learning experiences with teachers and pupils, foregrounding different voices and youth perspectives. He’s passionate about placing young people at the forefront of climate action and giving them a platform to promote change.
Adam’s interests include cinema, music, football and literature. He lives in Manchester with his partner and young daughter.
Charlie Clift
Charlie is a 16-year-old secondary school student and passionate environmentalist based in Oxfordshire, and member of the student advisory group. He is also a staff member at Teach the Future, a student-led campaign for climate education, which has had enormous success including the introduction of the first ever student-written bill into UK parliament.
His general interest, along with his work at Teach the Future has given him huge knowledge and experience on the environmentalism movement, having advocated for sustainability issues in school assemblies, in meetings with MPs and at exam board consultations. Outside of work, he enjoys music, maths, learning foreign languages and coding.
Giles Bristow
Giles is the CEO at Surfers Against Sewage. He is a senior leader and environmentalist with more than 20 years’ experience gained in commercial, entrepreneurial, community and NGO environments in the energy, food, and ocean systems. He is also a committed RNLI Crew member, enthusiastic sea swimmer, surfer, wing-foiler, and sailor, with a passion for improving the state of the marine environment.
Previously the Interim CEO and Director of Programmes at Ashden and before this, Director of Programmes at Forum for the Future, with responsibility for its systems change work. He found his way to Forum from a previous career as an environmental lawyer in the City of London with Slaughter & May and worked directly with communities across the UK to scale community energy as CEO of Carbon Leapfrog.
Giles worked with the Ashden team on LESS CO2 and developing and expanding Let’s Go Zero, and now works on the Education Programme (Plastic Free Schools and Ocean School), at Surfers Against Sewage.
Harry Paticas
Harry is an architect with a passion for beautifully crafted buildings that deliver robust building performance. He is a certified Passivhaus designer with broad experience in sustainable design. In February 2019, he won the Association for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) Overall Winner and the People’s Prize for the work he has carried out on his own home which is the first pre-certified step-by-step Passivhaus retrofit in the UK.
Harry was named RIBA London Project Architect of the year 2018 and is a co-director of 15-40 Architecture and Arboreal Architecture. He is currently a member of the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Association (STBA) Panel of Experts and co-chair of the Technical Working Group on retrofit for the UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings.
Harry is passionate about sharing his experience in low-carbon deep-retrofit to enable schools and local communities to significantly reduce carbon emissions and become resilient in the face of climate breakdown. In 2020 Harry founded RAFT (Retrofit Action For Tomorrow) and is currently working on zero carbon retrofit proposals for schools in Lewisham and Camden.
Hershil Patel
Hershil is the Sustainability Lead for Arcadis’ Government and Public Sector team. Formally, Hershil was the Head of Energy, Environment and Engineering at the Department for Education. During his time in Central Government Hershil lead the strategy to integrate sustainability into major capital programmes and funding schemes. During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Hershil, led the Departments technical input to keep school open.
At Arcadis is Hershil works with a wide range of public sector clients and supports them with solving complex issues from Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) to strategic sustainability and estate strategies.
His passion and drive to do things right provides a balance to the reality of delivering on the ground projects and achieving performance-based outcomes.
Hirra Khan Adeogun
Hirra is the co-director (campaigns & impact) at Possible. Previously, she was the campaign lead of the landmark Car Free Megacities programme, a two-year project across London, New York and Paris to reimagine our cities as places where private cars become obsolete and to dramatically raise policy and public support for urban car reduction.
Before this, Hirra managed events for Amnesty International UK, extensively explored British Muslim identities at New Horizons in British Islam, and used evidence and insight around the experiences of underrepresented people to drive positive change. She is passionate about designing sustainable futures that centre social justice, human rights and community cohesion.
Hirra is proud of her east London roots – she still lives there with her husband – and outside of her day job, she tries to make it better for local communities as Trustee of the Women’s Environmental Network (Wen) and as Vice-Chair of her tenants’ and residents’ association.
Jodie Bailey-Ho
Jodie Bailey-Ho is a 19-year-old undergraduate environmental science student at the University of Manchester, one of the co-founders of Teach the Teacher and one of the Department for Education Youth Focal Points for sustainability and climate change.
Her lobbying for climate and sustainability education began in 2019, and since then her commitment to sustainability and education has earned her recognition on a global scale – being named one of the finalists for Young Champion at the Global Good Awards, and one of CIWEMs ‘Climate Sheroes’ earlier this year. Through her work to progress climate education, she hopes that every young person, regardless of who they are, will feel equipped and empowered to create meaningful change.
Lucy Shea
Lucy Shea is the CEO of Futerra, the change agency. A firm believer in the power of business to create change, she advises Fortune 500 companies on how to unlock the value of sustainability for their business and brand. Lucy has long experience in developing bold goals and sustainability strategies plus powerful communications to drive social and environmental change. Her interests are in operationalizing sustainability and developing initiatives to make sustainable lifestyles choices more accessible.
She radically reimagined garment recycling with the creation of our Swishing campaign and was a founder member of the UN’s Sustainable Lifestyles Taskforce, when she authored Communicating Sustainability, today one of the UN’s most read reports. In 2014, she joined the Global Organising Committee of Fashion Revolution and is now a Trustee. She serves on the Steering Committee of the UNFCCC’s Fashion Charter.Her lobbying for climate and sustainability education began in 2019, and since then her commitment to sustainability and education has earned her recognition on a global scale – being named one of the finalists for Young Champion at the Global Good Awards, and one of CIWEMs ‘Climate Sheroes’ earlier this year. Through her work to progress climate education, she hopes that every young person, regardless of who they are, will feel equipped and empowered to create meaningful change.
Richard Hurst
Rich is an Education Development Advisor with responsibility for global sustainability education. Employed by Education Durham within Durham County Council, his role is varied working on projects across the County and further afield supporting the climate and ecological emergencies declared by the council.
Rich has worked in County Durham for over 25 years and in that time has worked on local, regional, national and international initiatives supporting schools in the broad sustainability agenda. He is passionate about helping children and young people understand their power to be active citizens to make a difference in the world.
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