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We’re transforming education so people protect the climate and nature
We are fighting to make sure everyone develops a commitment to protecting the earth and puts it to work – whether it’s at school, university or in their careers.
By empowering students and educators to build a better world, we can transform the lives of generations to come. In just a few years we have developed unstoppable student leaders. Behind these leaders every step of the way is the SOS UK community making sure students don’t have to fight for change alone. We unite people from every background, inside and outside education, because protecting our earth matters to each and every one of us. Armed with proven solutions, we push for change at every level of society. We are always laser focused on what can be done, whether it’s at local councils, in community halls, or in Westminster.
As educators, environmentalists, and activists, we use our expertise to get things done – from changing curriculums across the world, to making sure all school children have access to nature. We mentor. We advise. We campaign. We empower students to lead. Not just at university but for decades to come, as workers, employers and community members. We create climate and nature protectors in every community. They mobilise countless others. They change our country, and even our world, for the better.
Jamie is the founder Executive Director of SOS UK. Prior to joining SOS UK, Jamie led on sustainability at NUS for 15 years. Jamie is Chair of Trustees at The Harmony Project, a Non-Executive Director of the Aldersgate Group, sits on the Public Policy Committee of The British Academy and is a member of Court at the University of Bath. Jamie is autistic, dyslexic and has ADHD and is a strong advocate for inclusive workspaces and intersectional environmentalism.
Joanna is London based and has been part of the team since October 2010. She leads SOS UK’s engagement programmes, including Green Impact, Green Campus Revolution, Fairtrade Universities and Colleges, the Learning Academy, empowering individuals and teams to learn, act and lead for sustainability.
Joanna has a BA in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Environment, Science and Society from UCL. Joanna is a full member (MIEnvSc) of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, an associate member of Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, and is a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).
Manu Maunganidze works at the crossroads between education, environment, culture and diversity. He has been a lifelong vocal and passionate campaigner for equality in the civic and professional spheres. As an inclusion and diversity trainer Manu focuses on issues of cultural competence, institutional change in the context of unconscious bias and recruitment practice, and creating strategies towards better communication and partnership building. His work is always tailored to the client or group he is working with. Clients have favoured him for his effective facilitation skills as well being a responsive communicator of often difficult and complex ideas. He is adept at both one-off training sessions as he is at long-term strategic involvement.
Meg leads on SOS UK’s inclusion and climate justice work, which aims to transform the sustainability and environment sector, through recognising the role of education as a powerful tool for societal and systemic change. This work includes the RACE report and creating a progression pipeline to support people from under-represented groups to be part of the journey to climate justice. We know the climate crisis implicates those least responsible the most, therefore we are working to change that through this organisational aim of SOS UK.
Quinn leads SOS UK’s education work, which aims to embed sustainability through all aspects of learning, from early years through to adult education. Quinn manages the team that leads our systems-change education campaigns like Teach the Future and MockCOP as well as our education consultancy, projects and programmes, including Responsible Futures, SDG Curriculum Mapping, For Good and ESD Changemakers.
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Grace started at SOS UK in 2025, working to champion SOS UK’s work across digital platforms, and streamline communications efforts across the organisation. Grace has a background in working across comms and digital marketing for charities and non-profits, including at Good Law Project and The Children’s Society.
Since joining the team in 2013, Michelle has held many roles across the team but now leads on our HR development alongside various projects and campaigns.
Michelle is responsible for ensuring SOS UK lives its values through our HR processes, and is currently developing a suite of new organisational policies. Michelle is also our lead Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO).
Rachel leads the management, design, implementation and delivery associated with research and evaluation projects in order to enhance SOS UK’s ability to be effective in its sustainability-focused work with students’ unions and in its projects, programmes and campaigns across the education sector through use of insight.
Sheena has been working closely with SOS UK since early 2024 to help shape the organisation’s fundraising strategy, and has since joined the team as Interim Head of Relationship Fundraising.
She brings over 12 years’ experience in relationship fundraising and leadership, having worked across the UK, USA and Australia. In her role, Sheena works with our amazing supporters to build meaningful partnerships that grow sustainable income and help us maximise our impact.
Amira (she/her) [Ah-meer-ah Kam-Buhl] is the National Union of Students UK President. Her background in liberation campaigns, notably the black voices campaign during her time as an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham established her as the first remunerated community organiser at the student union and led her to then take up office as Guild President there also.
Hazel began her role as chair of the SOS-UK trustee board in November 2023. She is also the responsible board member for Safeguarding. Hazel is the Chief Executive of the British Ecological Society (BES), the oldest ecological society in the world. She has successfully led the BES for over 25 years and has an extensive knowledge of the academic and voluntary sectors.
Carole Parkes is an Emeritus Professor of Responsible Management and Leadership and has both a business and academic background. Carole has been a champion for the UN backed Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) since its inception in 2007.
Emma (she/her) is a 22 year old climate justice activist, Vice President for Liberation and Equality at the University of Exeter and History graduate. At University, she led the successful ‘£2 meal deal campaign’, was campaigns officer for Be the Change Society, and is currently advocating with the student campaign Shell Out as part of the international Fossil Free Research coalition which aspires for educational institutions to disassociate from fossil fuel companies.
Harriet has over 15 years experience of managing philanthropic investments on behalf of trusts, foundations and HNW individuals, delivering grant programmes on a range of climate, nature and human rights issues. She is co-founder of The Hour Is Late, a philanthropic sector consultancy, and is continually learning what it takes for civil society to ‘shift the dial’ on complex environmental and social challenges.
Saranya (she/her) is a 23-year-old activist and student leader. She is currently Vice President Liberation and Equality at the National Union of Students UK. Saranya is a Politics and Sociology student at the University of Bristol, where she started her student activism by co-leading the Bristol rent strike and co-ordinating the national student rent strike movement, in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scarlett is a 21-year-old leading climate justice activist, and the youngest person in the world to attain an A level in Government and Politics, which she self-taught at age 13. She is also the youngest parliamentary policy-writer, most known for her work on climate education as co-founder of Teach the Future, and for being a lead organiser of the British School Climate Strikes.
Serene’s passion for sustainability, diversity and empowering young people led her to SOS UK. Serene has supported our work from its inception, feeding into the Teach the Future campaign and sitting on The RACE Report Advisory Group. As well as volunteering across SOS UK, Serene also mentors students with protected characteristics.