Meet the team

• Mary Tate

  Partnership Manager

  Email: mary.tate@kent.gov.uk
  Telephone: 03000 414833

  Mary Joined the Partnership in April 2022. Mary has previously worked with the Countryside Management Partnerships at our sister partnerships in Romney Marsh and Medway Valley. She has more recently been working for the Kent Downs National Landscapes as the Countryside Manager in the Darent Valley. Mary has a BSC (hons) in Applied Ecology.

• Mark Gallant

  Senior Partnership Officer

  Email: mark.gallant@kent.gov.uk
  Telephone: 03000 417 571 / 07740185228

  Mark Gallant started with the Partnership in February 2008. Mark was formerly the Conservation Officer with the Lea Rivers Trust, where he was involved in carrying out a range wide of conservation activities on the River Lea in East London. Mark has a BSc in Science in the Environment, a City and Guilds in Horticulture, and a Higher Level NVQ in Environmental Management .

• Lucy Sawyer-Boyd

  Partnership Officer

  Email lucy.sawyer-boyd@kent.gov.uk
  Telephone: 01322 621239

  Lucy started with the partnership in August 2019. She has worked as a reserve warden for Essex Wildlife Trust and in several Country Parks. She completed an apprenticeship as a Countryside Ranger with West Sussex County Council and a Level 2 diploma in Environmental Conservation.

• Stephanie Johnson

  Partnership Officer

  Email: Stephanie.Johnson@kent.gov.uk
  Telephone: 07816128570

  Stephanie started with the partnership in late 2017 as an assistant partnership officer and at the beginning of October 2018 was promoted to Partnership officer. She has experience in habitat management and volunteer management from working at Grosvenor and Hilbert country park. Stephanie runs our education offer at Lesnes Abbey along with leading other projects such as Natural Ways to Wellbeing. Stephanie has a BSc in Zoology and in 2022 became a qualified Forest School Level 3 practitioner.

• Nina Skinner

  Partnership Officer

  Email: Nina.Skinner@kent.gov.uk
  Telephone: 03000 421735 / 07816128553

  Nina joined the partnership as Assistant Partnership Officer in Spring of 2023 and became
  a Partnership Officer in Autumn 2023. She has previously worked as the Environmental Education and Community Events Intern at Bore Place, and was a voluntary trainee for NWKCP and MVCP. She has a BSc in Natural Sciences and an MSc in Palaeobiology.

• Amanda Hedges

  Partnership Officer-Community Engagement

  Email: Amanda.hedges@kent.gov.uk
  Telephone: 03000 419913/ M: 07816 128511

  Amanda started with the Partnership in April 2024 as a Partnership Officer. She has been organising and running events and outdoor education for Kent County Council at Trosley Country Park for the last 18 months, and previously ran the visitor services offer for Kent Wildlife Trust at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve.

  She will be leading on some of our projects and Forest Schools and is “looking forward to meeting more people and enthusing them about the natural world”

  Amanda has an FdSc in Countryside Management and is a qualified Level 3 Forest School practitioner.