Bringing Lancashire's schools and environmental groups together.

Glynis spent more than 35 years in primary education, over 21 of them as a headteacher, in schools from Saudi Arabia to Chipping, here in Lancashire. For more than twenty years she has championed environmental education, education for sustainable development and learning beyond the classroom across the county.

While she was headteacher of Brabin's Endowed School in Chipping, Glynis suggested at a Forum meeting that she could use her contacts to run conferences for young people and promote the organisations that support them. The first was held in Chipping in 2007. She has organised the conferences as a volunteer ever since, as they grew from Chipping to St Christopher's CE High School in Accrington and then to Blackburn Rovers Football Club at Ewood Park, Blackburn. Today they are planned and delivered by Sustainability Learning CIC as the Sustainability Learning Conferences, with support from Forum members.

She has written Key Stage 2 programmes of study for the Bowland AONB and for the Co-op's Green Revolution website, and has advised schools on education for sustainable development. For Glynis, learning about sustainability should be about real people, real opportunities and real responsibilities.

In September 2026 she won the BBC Make a Difference Environmental Award. She is now preparing to step back from her work with Sustainability Learning CIC, and continues to lead the Forum.

Wendy has more than twenty years' teaching experience, at least fifteen of them in sustainability education. At St Christopher's CE High School in Accrington she has been Assistant Headteacher and Director of Sustainability, leading sustainability across the school and out into the local community, where she has run the Hyndburn Eco Cluster Group with the local charity The Prospects Foundation.

She has been at the heart of the conferences alongside Glynis since 2009. She brought secondary schools to the conferences and helped them grow, and as the Forum's Chairperson she has project-managed them as a volunteer, alongside her work in school. In 2022 she was one of the guest speakers at the conference's leadership session for headteachers, deputy heads, business managers and governors. She has also advised companies on the education content of their green strategies.

As Glynis prepares to step back from her work with Sustainability Learning CIC, Wendy will take it on.