She has published seven books including the #1 Sunday Times bestseller I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, National Book Award for Non Fiction winning Is it Just Me?, and most recently The Christmas Tree that Loved to Dance, a joyful short story for adults.

Miranda will be discussing her book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You and all the treasures she has learnt that have led her to be able to live freer and more joyfully despite learning them during the suffering of a debilitating illness … She’ll also be willing to be posed any questions and just wants to have SUCH FUN with you all!

Prue has had a long involvement with education and has been active in many charities. She has a DBE, 12 honorary degrees or fellowships, the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the year, and her restaurant, Leith’s, won a Michelin star.

His broadcasting has earned him a BAFTA as well as accolades from Radio 4, The Observer and the Guild of Food Writers and his award-winning books, include the best-selling River Cottage Cook Book and River Cottage Veg Every Day. Hugh’s latest book How to Eat 30 Plants a Week was published in May 2024.

He continues to work as a journalist, writing occasionally for the Guardian, Times and other national newspapers. He is a vice president of Fauna & Flora International and a patron of Switchback, a charity that helps young offenders find opportunities in the catering industry.

In 2020, Alexander took over from John Suchet to host the flagship Classic FM weekday mid-morning programme. He continues to be a regular host on the BBC’s Have I Got News for You and also hosts the hugely popular BBC1 quiz show Pointless. More recently, he has found success as a travel presenter for Alexander Armstrong In …. for Channel 5, where he has visited far flung fields such as Sri Lanka, South Korea and Iceland.

2024 saw him publish his debut children’s novel, Evenfall: The Golden Linnet, the first in his Evenfall series. The sequel, Evenfall: The Tempest Stone, is released in February 2026.

Estelle’s extensive experience has led her to create a CMA-accredited 3-year Heart Embodied Modality, a practitioner training course designed to guide others through heart-centred healing. She is the founder of Estelle Bingham Wellness, a luxury perfume brand that uses ancient wisdom to create energetically infused scents or modern alchemy for the soul.

Estelle’s work has been featured in major media outlets globally including Vogue, Elle, The New York Times and Goop. In April 2025, Estelle released her debut book, Manifest Your True Essence: Clear Your Blocks, Find Your Joy, Live Your Truth. The book is a practical guide offering heartfelt guidance to support building a daily practice that aligns the reader with their True Essence – where joy, potential, and the power to co-create reality reside.

After losing his father, Adam made a decision that changed everything. He left behind the expected path and spent five years hitchhiking across twenty-six countries – learning from the people who picked him up, sleeping under open skies, and discovering the extraordinary hidden in the everyday. Now, aboard his stubbornly charming narrowboat The Raman Rose, Adam continues that journey on the UK’s waterways.

She helped set up Chefs in Schools in 2017, for which she is a trustee, a charity whose premise is to put trained chefs into school kitchens to make affordable, but delicious food to change how children eat and feel about food. She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for her services to the food industry. Tommi has a regular column in the Guardian’s Feast magazine and has written 9 cookbooks. In 2024 she went back to live in Mexico for 6 months with her husband and 3 children to introduce her family to the country she so loves.

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Cited as one of the best books of the year by The Telegraph and The Guardian and adapted into the Radio 4 series Political Animals, it is currently being adapted for television and the theatre. Despite the title Bitch has also been placed on the syllabus of numerous universities including Princeton, Cambridge and Durham.

Lucy is a regular on BBC panel shows such as Sue Perkin’s Nature Table, Infinite Monkey Cage and QI. She has also written, produced and presented documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, Animal Planet and Discovery. 

 Her work is included in several anthologies, including Wild Service (ed Nick Hayes) The Book of Bogs (Little Toller) and Future Rural, marking 100 years of CPRE (the Campaign for Rural England.)  She was a judge for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize, 2025 and is an imperfect activist for nature and community. Nicola writes to celebrate the joy and wonder of our relationship with the natural world, and hopes to galvanise people to want to care for it. Living in the North Wessex Downs, she has worked with horses, as a cowgirl in the Canadian Rockies, as a lingerie fitter, in wildlife conservation and as a librarian. Her latest book, Ghosts of the Farm is garnering plaudits and was a Spectator Book of the Year.

She looks at how the past has shaped experiences, emotional blockages and physical tension. Rebecca fervently believes that embodied breathwork is the ultimate key to our well-being, health and inner peace.

Rebecca’s approach blends breathwork, bodywork, coaching, somatic trauma counselling techniques, bi-lateral processing, nervous system regulation, parts work, shamanic, IFS (Internal Family Systems) and mindset tools for a holistic approach. Through her skilled space holding and extensive experience, she is dedicated to helping individuals access lasting transformation and optimum well-being.

The Klosters Forum Podcast and interviews on-stage and hosts at major literary events and climate summits. She has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for eight years at BBC’s Newsnight.

Her work makes more accessible topics of climate justice, climate colonialism, activism, creativity and systems change across a variety of forums on and offline and for platforms including Meta, The United Nations Geneva Dialogues, Channel 4, Cheltenham Science Festival, Oxford University, The National Lottery, The Design Council and The Wellcome Collection.

Joycelyn was 2022’s winner of the Emerging Designer London Design Medal, was featured in British Vogue’s December 2023 ‘Forces for Change’ Issue and is a TEDx Alumni. Most recently, she has been listed as one of Pique Action and Harvard Chan C-CHANGE’s 2024 Climate Creators to Watch and as one of Country and Town House’s Future Icons Power People 2024. Her book, Natural Connection, has been published to wide critical acclaim. 

Outside – and indeed inside – of work, you’re likely to spot her rootling in the mud, collecting feathers and bones, or whispering compliments to spiders. Lucy now lives on the Isle of Bute.

 He is the co-founder and CEO of the pioneering educational institution, Black Mountains College in Wales. 

Deb knows that the best way for people to communicate a message more effectively, is to get them talking about the things that they love. So, in 2024 she launched These Three Things – the podcast that asks, which one person, place and treasured possession have profoundly impacted your life and why? Her mission is to help every individual feel more seen, heard and remembered.

Deb lives in South Wales with her young daughter, Lily.

Interweaving stories from landmark environmental cases, including those of indigenous peoples in which she has acted, pioneering barrister Feria Tinta illuminates the global climate justice movement.

With a background in Classical Guitar, he also performs regularly as a solo Andean guitarist exploring music from different regions, using indigenous tunings and techniques.  Robert will be playing Andean themes deeply rooted in Nature specially curated by Monica Feria-Tinta, for the event, to accompany her talk.

Yuval’s stunning Big Book of… series encourages children to explore and care for our natural world. The series has now been published in 25 languages and has won and been shortlisted for numerous awards internationally, including the UKLA Book Awards in 2018 and 2019, the English Association’s Nonfiction Award in 2017 and 2019, and the Made For Mums Award in 2018 and 2019.

He is author of the book How to Love Animals, an exploration of what it really means to be an animal lover. 

She calls them Queenagers. Eleanor’s mission is to change the narrative around older women in our culture to something more positive and fit for purpose which befits their pioneering status. To do that she became an entrepreneur at 50 setting up noon.org.uk in 2021. Her The Queenager newsletter is a Substack bestseller and her community has a 100k reach. Prior to that, for 23 years, Eleanor was a senior executive on The Sunday Times, the paper’s Editorial Director and award-winning Editor of The Sunday Times Magazine. She was also Saturday Editor of The Times and as a columnist she has interviewed everyone from David Cameron and Theresa May to Sheryl Sandberg, Harry Styles and the Dalai Lama. She was Chair of Women in Journalism UK from 2014-2021. She still writes regularly across UK newspapers and magazines, appears regularly as a commentator on TV and Radio and gives regular keynotes for global corporations on gendered-ageism and getting to gender parity and runs programmes within companies to help them retain their Queenager talent.

She regularly appears on panels as both speaker and chair and as a guest on podcast and radio programmes. She writes for a range of publications on issues of agro-ecological farming and sustainability.

Her fourth memoir, The Giant on the Skyline was published in May 2024. She hosts the popular podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery. Originally from Oxfordshire, she is currently living in Washington DC with her husband and the youngest three of her five children.

She is on the Honorary Council of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and is a Trustee of the PRS for Music Foundation which funds composers and songwriters across the UK.

She also did a Masters in Art History, specialising in photography. For 10 years she made wildlife documentaries at Oxford Scientific Films for BBC’s Natural World, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. Then she moved in-house at the BBC for a further decade, where she worked in their Science Department on films across the board, mostly for Horizon. She is the author of various books including the critically acclaimed Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses.  She lives in London with her family.

She works with all ages and likes to encourage people to have fun playing with creativity, promoting wellbeing and boosting confidence in creative abilities. Gemma likes to use upcycled & recycled materials in her own art and the workshops she runs. She also delivers short courses in Creative Journalling.

This is the story of how our world was created, of how the old world became the new world. This is the story of the leaders of the new tribes. This is the book of truth.

His newly published book One Day, A Thousand Songs explores the bird soundscape in his Wiltshire garden over the course of the day. His previous book What’s in a Year? offers a vivid portrait of the landscape’s ever-changing beauty, from the first signs of life in spring to the melancholic notes of a robin’s song in the autumn. Come and chat to him about exploring the nature on our doorstep, ways to create wildlife friendly environments, fishing, or even just hints on using the Merlin birdsong app to identify birds in your back garden. He’ll also be happy to sign copies of his books.

Finding that origami helps her to keep her mind clear and free from stress, she shares soothing videos and easy techniques so that everyone can find peace with origami. You can follow her on YouTube and TikTok: @kimigami or visit her website: gohlikim.com