Guests

Claire Mackenzie

Claire is a film, impact and content producer. She is the producer of independent environmental documentaries ‘Six Inches of Soil’ and ‘From the Ground Up’, both exploring our current farming system, and the recently launched ‘Six Inches of Soil’ podcast.

She has a background in TV production, charity fundraising and event organising. As an environmental campaigner she set up eco community groups both in London and Cambridgeshire – with food and farming at the heart of her campaigning.
With a passion for holistic health care she has been a trained therapist for 15 years, specialising working with those affected by cancer and a trustee at Cambridge Cancer Help Centre.

Claire is never happier than when she has her hands in the soil. When she can she works at Sweetpea Market Garden (farm featured in Six Inches of Soil) In 2025 she set up ‘Regen Cam’, an ever growing group of soil / agroecology loving folk in Cambridgeshire.

Colin Ramsey

Founder, DragonLight

Colin Ramsay, founder of DragonLight Films has produced films for the United Nations, Historic England, WWF, the Salvation Army, University of Cambridge, University of London, the NHS, UNESCO, the Wellcome Trust, The Royal Society, DMG Media and Bear Grylls.

Colin is passionate about agroecology and nature based solutions to climate change. He released his first feature film Six Inches of Soil in 2024. The film has screened in over 600 venues across the world, received national press coverage, awards and had a book and podcast series published. His films have featured in Nature Magazine, BBC click, The Guardian, FT, The Times, UK parliament, Cambridge Science Festival, Institut Français, COP28, The Royal Institution of Australia and international film events.

He lives in Cambridge with his partner and 3 children.

Dr David Bell

Founder, belly bugs

After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1987 with a PhD in Ancient Greek, David worked in the marketing department of ICI in Manchester. He founded his own advertising agency, Cheetham Bell, in 1992 which was bought by WPP in 2000.

David was CEO of the Manchester office of JWT and Creative Director at global digital agency, Mirum. David left the advertising world in 2017 to develop Belly Bugs, the children’s IP he created that introduces kids to their gut microbes and, as research is showing, is the silver bullet for childhood nutrition.

Katharine Tate

The Food Teacher™

Katharine Tate, The Food Teacher™, is a Registered Nutritional Therapist, Health Coach and award-winning author with more than 20 years’ experience as an educator. Passionate about making health education practical and inspiring, she created the National Young Chef Awards, now delivered to thousands of children across the UK, and The Micro Matrix, a pioneering free programme that introduces microbiome science into classrooms.She is Education Project Lead for Global Healthcare Projects – Inside Out; the UK’s first Gut & Microbiome Festival, where she is bringing cutting-edge science to life for schools and communities.
Email: info@thefoodteacher.co.uk Website: www.thefoodteacher.co.uk LinkedIn: Katharine Tate Instagram: @thefoodteacheruk Facebook: The Food Teacher Mob: 07802894997

Lucy MacLennan

Director, Organic Research Centre

Lucy MacLennan is the Director of the Organic Research Centre, ADAS the UK’s centre of excellence for research exploring organic and agroecological farming and food systems. She is also the Director of the Progressive Farming Trust which is the parent charity for Agricology – a collaborative, free, farming information hub for practical sustainable agriculture, regardless of labels.

She is Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Fresh Produce Sector Board at Red Tractor Assured Food Standards, as well as Trustee of Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust.

SAM FELTHAM

Director, Public Health Collaboration UK

Sam Feltham has been in the health and fitness industry for over a decade. Starting out as a party coordinator at a sports centre he worked his way up to study at the European Institute of Fitness and qualified as a Master Personal Trainer. After 5 years of running a fitness boot camp business with a successful podcast, Sam shifted his focus to improving public health by setting up and directing the registered charity, Public Health Collaboration (Charity no. 1171887). Whose mission is to empower people to achieve good metabolic health through sustainable lifestyle changes.

 

Trudie Chalder

Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy

Trudie Chalder is Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy at King’s College London. She has worked as a clinician and a researcher in the area of long-term conditions and functional symptoms for about 30 years. She develops specific cognitive behavioural models for understanding and treating these conditions and evaluates the approaches within the context of randomised controlled trials in primary and secondary care. Her research involves investigating not only whether treatment works in the context of gold standard randomised controlled trials but how and for whom it works. Her work spans adolescents and adults. Since the start of the pandemic she has been involved in multi-disciplinary research and clinical approaches to post COVID conditions.

Trudie has published around 400 articles. She was the President of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) and is an honorary Fellow of the BABCP.

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