Beth Jaichand
Director (on Maternity leave)
Beth has worked in the voluntary sector for 16 years, both in the UK and abroad. She has experience in leadership, strategic planning and project and people management. She joined Sydenham Garden in 2021 and is passionate about the positive impact gardening and creative activities has on health and wellbeing.
Lowell Black
Director (Maternity cover)
Lowell brings over a decade of community-centred practice, most recently as Head of Youth Engagement at Young Minds. With experience spanning youth centres, museums, and mental health organisations, they’re passionate about creating spaces where people flourish. What draws them to Sydenham Garden is its beautiful approach to community building – rooted literally in place, people and plants.
Ollie Moss
Head of Services
Ollie has 15 years’ experience of leading and co-designing community programmes that have created positive change for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people. He has additional experience in project and people management as well as working with people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Ollie has a passion for the outdoors and believes strongly in the positive effect gardening and connecting with nature have on our health and wellbeing.
George Redmayne
Community Activities & Volunteering Lead
George has worked in the voluntary sector for 14 years in the areas of mental and physical health. He has experience in project management, one-to-one mental health support, setting up and running groups, and recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers. He is a big believer in the health benefits of exercise and spending time in natural settings as well as in the power of community
Rachael Tyndall
Outreach & Development Worker
Rachael volunteered on our Growing Lives project, before working as Garden Project Lead during Charlotte’s maternity leave. Rachael has a background in human rights and refugee organisations.
David Lloyd
Growing Lives Project Coordinator
David has a horticultural background and has spent many of his years teaching the use of alternative technology.
Charlene Henderson
Garden Project Lead
Charlene first joined Sydenham Garden as the Community Food Growing project lead, she has also volunteered on the Growing Lives project. She brings experience of working with various community food growing and therapeutic gardening projects.
Jo Vallis
Art & Craft Project Lead
Jo is a qualified Art Psychotherapist. She also has a background in education and community arts.
Rosie Hollands
Dementia Project Lead
Rosie volunteered with us for before becoming our Dementia Project Lead. She is a horticultural therapist, and trained in arts-based reminiscence.
Clare Lorraine-Phipps
Sow & Grow Sessional Worker
Clare first joined Sydenham Garden as a volunteer in Art & Craft. She has lived experience of disability, and a background in social and environmental campaigning. Clare has an MSc in Public Health and has undertaken training in arts based reminiscence therapy and Singing for the Brain.
Lauren Goddard
ⓜ.ⓤ.ⓓ Project Lead
Lauren started out as a co-worker at Sydenham Garden, where she found a love for horticulture, and became a volunteer in the Garden project. She is a gardener, and is involved in other community growing projects.
Charlotte Dove
OCN Project Lead
Charlotte has been working in the world of community gardening and therapeutic horticulture for over a decade. She is passionate about growing fruits and vegetables and gardening for wildlife. She was previously the Garden Project Lead at Sydenham Garden, but is now focussed on the OCN project, responsible for overseeing our Practical Organic Gardening courses.
Rebecca Leslie
Practical Organic Gardening Project Worker
Rebecca joined Sydenham Garden as a volunteer on the Practical Organic Gardening course in 2023, and became the project worker in 2025. She came to gardening after twenty years’ experience in human rights and humanitarian aid in crisis and conflict settings. Becoming a gardener as a second career has been a tremendous healing journey that she is eager to share with others.
Sekha Hall
Environmental Education & Biodiversity Officer
Sekha was originally referred to Sydenham Garden as a co-worker. After a few years he became a volunteer and then in 2015 became a paid member of the team. He is experienced in the caring profession and has a wealth of horticultural and conservation knowledge.
Steve Prowse
Business & Premises Manager
Steve is an engineer by trade and deals with our events, hire of our gardens, corporate volunteering and general premises management.
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The Volunteer Team
When the project began in 2003, Sydenham Garden was run exclusively by volunteers, local residents and a number of staff from Sydenham Green Health Centre.
Volunteers continue to play the most vital role in leading and delivering our services to the community today and are very much at the centre of the team.