Ben Sherratt works as a Bike It officer for Sustrans. He says: “it has to be one of the best jobs in the world. I get to work with the most enthusiastic people in our society, children, every day.”
Ben’s role is to engage children, mainly in primary schools, in cycling as a form of transport, but also as a way of life. This means getting their parents, teachers and …

In the 1980′s, a letter came through Ben’s door explaining the burning of the Amazon rainforest. He knew then that the sustainable management of forests would be at the heart of his working life, attempting to change ingrained patterns of thinking regarding the forestry and building industries.
Ben’s work has developed based around his flagship project at Prickly Nut Wood. 18 years of practical sustainable forest management forms the basis for …

John Parry, an environmental education researcher, set up the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in 1988. Its aim was to turn the former railway sidings at the edge of the A26 in Lewes into a local nature reserve and education resource.
Over the years the challenges have been numerous, with each initiative taking huge effort and planning. The restoration of a signal box, for example, took a staggering seven years to complete.
The …