With a passion for ensuring young people have every opportunity to thrive in education and beyond, Siân joined the Jamie’s Farm team in March 2023. She is responsible for managing and reporting on impact data across 6 farms. Bringing data to life alongside the real stories of young people visiting the farms is what Siân enjoys most, as well as supporting staff and teachers to get the most out of Jamie’s Farms’ systems. Before Jamie’s Farm, Siân worked for the Trussell Trust, supporting food banks with operations, systems and training so they could serve their communities effectively.

Jake Farrell is an Investment Director at Impetus. As an organisation Impetus provides long term unrestricted funding and capacity building support to partner organisations; school engagement is a key theme of Impetus’ recent grant rounds relating to Social and Emotional Learning and school exclusion. Prior to working for Impetus Jake was the Head of Programme Quality and Impact at The Access Project, a widening participation charity providing tutoring and mentoring to disadvantaged young people.

Jenny is the Director of Research, Impact and Influence at The Difference. The Difference delivers CPD to school leaders on whole school inclusion to drive improvements in student level outcomes around exclusions, attendance and wellbeing in school. They research what makes for effective practice around inclusion and work in coalition with other organisations to identify and campaign for policy recommendations that can support schools to improve inclusive approaches. Jenny is a policy researcher with specialisms in exclusions, safeguarding and wellbeing research in education.

James is the Senior Policy Lead for the education charity Football Beyond Borders (FBB). He works closely with FBB's young people, youth practitioners and impact team to produce evidence, advocate and lobby for systems change which centres on the importance of trusted adult relationships for all young people.