Calderdale Stories Team
Who We Are
Beth Morgan
Director of Projects, Rooting and Fruiting
Beth Morgan is co-founder of Rooting and Fruiting, a grassroots enterprise focussed on community, food sovereignty, nature connection and social and ecological wellbeing. The organisation started in 2012 as a radical mycology business, now called Myco.Logi, which Beth supports to grow edible and medicinal mushrooms in a revamped shipping container in Calderdale.
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With over 15 years experience working in the social care and community development sector, a whole heap of experience in creative industries and community arts, and an absolute passion for nature, travel, adventure and the great outdoors, Beth culminates her skills in order to challenge the status quo in ecological and social design. She draws together deep ecology thinking, nature connection, permaculture and other design methodologies to impact change, working with these critical life values: cycles, connection, regeneration, reciprocity and compassion.
Beth’s work is often diverse. One day she can be designing and delivering community and private gardens, including gardens at Calderdale Royal Hospital. Next she can be developing social and horticulture programs and toolkits, supporting the likes of In-Patient Therapy Stroke or Metal Health Rehab in Calderdale. She loves codesigning to address community challenges, including developing an Arts Induction programme for newly arrived children with Rochdale Council, which is now in over 20 local authorities. She supports national organisations and promising businesses with leadership, visoning, business and project design and social and ecological investment strategies utilising extensive partnerships and friendships she has developed over the years. Her portfolio can be found on the Rooting and Fruiting Website.
Areas of Expertise:
Ecological-social codesign
Living spaces & garden design
Horticulture & Social Therapy
Community engagement & participation
Network development
Project management
Genevieve Boast
People and Sustainability @ Equinox
Storyhacker, author and sustainability consultant.
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For the last decade I have worked as a guide, connecting individuals and organizations to their bigger purpose and human story in the world. Helping to change existing leadership stories in order to create authentic, responsible and sustainable evolution & growth.
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My career began in mainstream media and entertainment where I have spent over a decade working in the fields of change management, corporate social investment and cultural transformation. In 2010 I began to pursue my dream of facilitating a new modern mythology based on a story that unites. My work reflects that passion - working with individuals, organizations and communities, creating new stories and paradigms in education, business and global society.
I have an Msc in Responsible Sustainable Business and continue that work in the fields of new business, indigeny and sustainability. I specialise in liberating people and systems from their old stories into the open space of potential that lays beyond the confines of our personal and collective comfort zones.
People, Story and Sustainability at Equinox Kombucha.
I work with the incredible team at Equinox Kombucha to embed ethical, regenerative principles into the DNA of this fast growing, craft organisation. This involves creating inside out change, using B Corp and other regenerative business models to practice evolutionary business as thought and deed leaders in these times of unpredictable change.
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And of course tell the story as it unfolds through our people, our community, our environment and our wider ecosystem!