Who we are

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Dom Koole

Passionate about reducing entrenched inequalities and injustices in society through education, Dom has dedicated his career to supporting young people. With experience at The Department for Education and United Learning, working with schools in some of the most deprived parts of the country, he brings both knowledge and passion to his current role at Jamie’s Farm.

Dom oversees all operations, ensuring that our farms are bustling with young people, managing earned income streams, finances, and the behind-the-scenes systems. Renowned for his innovative approach to problem-solving, Dom is the trusted expert in streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency.

Outside of work, Dom enjoys a variety of outdoor sports including mountain biking, surfing, climbing, and camping. He cherishes going on adventures with his young family, whether on foot or two wheels.

Dom is key in driving the growth of the charity forward, ensuring Jamie’s Farm can support more young people from across the country.

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Chloe Thomas

Having started out working directly with young people delivering the Jamie’s Farm programme, Chloe now works in the Jamie’s Farm HQ team, where she helps to understand the impact our work has on young people. She’s passionate about ensuring every child feels they belong and has the opportunity to thrive.

Before joining Jamie’s Farm, Chloe worked in public health and education- drawn to roles tackling inequality. At Jamie’s Farm, she enjoys finding creative ways to share our unique approach with schools and other organisations. She is also a huge advocate for the power of young people’s voices and leads on Youth Engagement at the charity.

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Claire Elsdon

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Phoebe Ruxton

Phoebe completed a degree in French and Spanish with Russian at Exeter University, spending time working in Paris and Guatemala. After uni, she lived in France, teaching English in secondary schools. She then decided to return to UK life in Bristol, working for language schools before switching to the third sector to work in Fundraising and Communications. She has completed a Diploma in Fundraising from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, and worked for nearly five years at FareShare South West, a surplus food redistribution charity where she supported the fast growth of the organisation as Director of Fundraising and Communications, including building programmes with schools, children’s centres and holiday clubs to tackle child hunger.

She jumped at the chance to work for Jamie’s Farm as their Partnerships Manager, and work to help as many young people as possible benefit from the farm experience. Her role connects farms to schools and organisations sending groups of young people.

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Lucy Kane

Lucy is the Partnerships Manager at Jamie’s Farm, covering Phoebe’s maternity leave, and is the first point of contact for schools and organisations looking to arrange visits to Jamie’s Farm. She plays a key role in ensuring the farm’s seven locations are fully booked each week, helping to provide transformative experiences for young people.

With a diverse career background, Lucy began her professional journey teaching English in French secondary schools before transitioning into the commercial sector in London. She later shifted to the charity sector, where she has worked in marketing roles for both small and large organisations, including Breast Cancer Now and the Soil Association.

When she’s not working, she loves spending time outdoors with her partner, children, and dog. Whether it’s wild swimming, playing women’s football, or sewing, Lucy embraces life with a sense of adventure.

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Mark Harrison

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Natalia Borg

Natalia discovered her passion for working with young people while working at Brighton’s youth homeless day centre, The Clock Tower Sanctuary.  After hearing that Jamie’s Farm were opening their fourth rural farm just on her doorstep, she jumped at the opportunity to be involved.

Whether welcoming supporters to the farm, or writing funding applications, Natalia enjoys bringing life on the farm alive for the charity’s supporters. Her favourite moments are those spent with young people, hearing their stories, or enjoying a slice of pizza, fresh from the outdoor pizza oven.

When not at her desk, Natalia tries to make the most of living in the beautiful rolling hills of the South Downs.

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Lucy Carr

Lucy grew up in Cornwall before setting off to do a Degree and Masters in International Development and Education, in Norfolk. She has since made Wiltshire her home, where she enjoys being outdoors as much as possible (when not doing renovation work on her house). She’s worked in the charity sector for over 8 years, largely in community fundraising, helping to connect people with the opportunity to make positive change in the world. She is passionate about education, and everyone being supported to fulfil their full potential and why she is excited to be part of the Jamie’s Farm team. Her role involves helping to look after fundraising, with a particular focus on our events programme and corporate relationships.

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Laura Crouch

Laura grew up in sunny Southampton before moving to Bristol to study Media and Drama. Having worked in a variety of roles, she found a love of fundraising when volunteering for a local scout group and hasn’t looked back. Having settled in Bath, she enjoys gardening, swimming and taking on a challenge, in between learning new renovation skills on her house.

She’s worked in community fundraising for over 14 years and loves how fundraising can provide such a positive outlet for people. She is extremely passionate about providing excellent support through fundraising, making it accessible to everyone whilst making it as fun and creative as possible and is looking forward to bringing this passion to her role in the Jamie’s Farm team. Her role involves helping to look after fundraising across the board.

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Elly Hayes

Elly is involved in both the operational and relational aspects of Jamie’s Farm. With a focus on volunteering and community she works to build and support these areas through broader professional development opportunities such as teacher training placements and supporting our Youth Champion programme.

With a solid understanding of the delivery side of Jamie’s Farm, having been the Garden Coordinator and then Senior Visit Coordinator at Monmouth, Elly’s work continues to be influenced by her experiences of working alongside young people. With an enthusiasm for connecting with young people and fostering relationships on and off the farm, Elly enjoys building and developing opportunities that allow our work to continue beyond the farm.

When not on one of the farms Elly’s love of farm life continues: looking after her own animals, walking in the Brecon Beacons or enjoying the more peaceful moments with sleeping dogs and a good book.

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Sarah Argyle

Sarah grew up in Wiltshire and began her career in marketing and communications, gaining on-the-job experience in the corporate sector. Driven by a passion for social impact, she transitioned into corporate social responsibility, before taking on a role in fundraising and communications for an international NGO, solidifying her commitment to the charity sector.

Joining Jamie’s Farm in early 2016, Sarah co-led the fundraising team for two years and now works part-time overseeing the charity’s communications and PR. This role covers a diverse range of responsibilities from managing the website and brand, to creatively sharing the Jamie’s Farm story. Usually Sarah is found surrounded by multiple screens and devices on her desk at the charity HQ near Bath. This digital existence at work is countered out of the office with screen-free hobbies such as cycling and walking, although at a much slower pace these days with a young family in tow.

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Chloe Raynor

Chloe coordinates our digital and print communications, making sure the Jamie’s Farm story and impact reach and inspire audiences far and wide. Known for juggling multiple projects at once with creative flair, she beings energy to every task – whether it’s crafting engaging content, managing social media or diving into analytics.

Wearing many hats, Chloe loves the variety of working in Comms. She’s passionate about ethical storytelling and making sure the Jamie’s Farm message is shared in an authentic, meaningful way. She also plays an active role in our DEI Recruitment working group and helps to support our Follow-up programme, ensuring our support continues long after a farm visit.

When not at the farm, Chloe can often be found swimming in rivers, dancing to live music, or pootling off to the coast in her campervan.

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Sam Ardin

Sam leads on impact measurement at Jamie’s Farm as Senior Impact Manager. Passionate about learning from data, she drives initiatives—such as control group evaluations and economic analysis—to understand the charity’s impact on young people. With a background in scientific research and experience as a secondary school teacher in Hartlepool, Sam was inspired to join Jamie’s Farm to champion every child’s potential.

Initially joining in a delivery role at Monmouth Farm, where she cooked up a storm with young people, Sam’s analytical thinking and creative problem-solving are matched by her genuine understanding of the challenges and strengths of young people. Living in Scotland, she enjoys mountain biking, the outdoors and having regular dance-parties in the living room, all with her two young children.

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Siân Cogan

Siân is passionate about ensuring young people have every opportunity to thrive in education and beyond. At Jamie’s Farm, she brings data to life alongside the real experiences of young people visiting the farms. Siân supports our staff to get the most out of IT systems, making her the go-to person for streamlining processes.

She provides support and training to colleagues, showcasing her organisational skills and ability to adapt resources and guidance to a variety of audiences and individuals. She works collaboratively to collect and report on key insights for the organisation and ensures the smooth running of Salesforce, our CRM. Siân is also responsible for our qualitative impact data, including case studies, quotes, and feedback. Previously, Siân worked at Trussell, supporting food banks with operations, systems, and training. Outside of work, Siân enjoys adventures in the countryside, baking, listening to live music, and spending as much time as possible by the seaside.

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Nia Cowcher

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David Parker

David has wide experience of working in businesses in vastly different industries and sizes. He has worked nationally and internationally, even owning a garden centre for a number of years. He has returned to live in Wiltshire for the third time in his life – this time for keeps! David has joined our finance team, working alongside everyone at HQ based at our Bath Farm.

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Ed Norris

Ed has been with Jamie’s Farm from the early days, when alongside his day job he would volunteer his time every Monday to lend a hand on the farm to Doug our Farm Manager. Ed now works in the finance team, looking after our accounts but can occasionally still be found in a tractor.

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Wendy Kemp

After graduating from Swansea University with a degree in Modern Languages with Business Studies, Wendy worked in financial PR and in recruitment for a few years, before becoming a Primary School Teacher. Wendy now manages the charity’s office, helping to keep things running smoothly behind the scenes at Jamie’s Farm.

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Andy Ward

Andy joined Jamie’s Farm after a career in the Royal Air Force and numerous years running an electrical contracting business. It was as the Bath farm electrician that Andy first encountered the charity. Being a regular contractor on site, seeing 1^st hand the great work done on the farm and always receiving a warm welcome, led him to grab the chance to become the Estate Manager. The role entails looking after the infrastructure, facilities and aesthetics of all farms across the charity.

Andy loves being active and ‘fixing’ things. Just as well, as his list of jobs is always long. When not on the farms Andy enjoys his motorbike, family and ‘bagging’ Munros.

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Maggie Mohr

Maggie joined the farm in September 2020, after a number of roles in sales, business development and telemarketing. She initially joined the housekeeping team making sure the farmhouse, barn and offices are clean, tidy and sparkling for the weekly children’s visits, the HQ staff and weekend farm lets with the help of her amazing housekeeping team. 

In March 2021 she was appointed as Houselets coordinator.  She ensures all the Jamie’s Farm properties are rented out to maximum capacity at the weekends to earn valuable extra income for the charity.

In her very little spare time, she enjoys walking in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside with her family and 3 dogs, a lovely chocolate Labrador, a naughty Jack Russell and a lively English springer spaniel.

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Tora Smith

Tora is the house let’s coordinator for our Monmouth and Hereford farms. Working alongside the amazing housekeeping team to ensure properties are let out at the weekends to raise precious money for Jamie’s farm.

After completing a degree in human geography at Sussex University Tora went on to study rural crafts including coppicing, Willow growing and basket making. She weaves baskets and teaches willow weaving in and around the southwest and Midlands

In his spare time, Tora loves walking, wild swimming and spending time with her family in the beautiful Herefordshire countryside.