Jenny comes to DCT as a project manager. She has experience across sectors in Devon and beyond - co-operative, VCSE, consultancy and local government- all with a focus on community empowerment. She is passionate about participation, hearing marginalised voices, collaboration and place-based relationships and brings a facilitative, deep listening approach to the people, places and projects she works with.
She grew up in Somerset, studied Psychology in Plymouth and has lived in rural East Devon for nearly 30 years, between the sea and Blackdown Hills. She worked for DCT more than 25 years ago as a social enterprise worker and has come back to work with communities during the challenges of the local government reorganisation and climate change.
Jenny is also co co-founder of Neroche Woodlanders, a social enterprise in 100 acres of the public forest estate on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. She still supports the team with nature-based wellbeing work and strategy. As an outdoors woman, she continues to develop new threads of nature-relational work having completed an outdoor education focused Master of Research degree in 2023.
I love devon because...
...of the rich hedgerows, deep green lanes and wild sea.
