As a Food Technologist turned environmentalist, Helen worked with several leading food industry brands before starting her sustainability career at the Soil Association, where she led the certification of food, beauty, and textile products to the organisation’s stringent organic standards. She went on to establish a Business Development function to support companies going organic and help farmers and growers who’d invested in the transition to organic production have a secure market and later led the charity’s conferences, campaigns, public events and fundraising activities.
In 2010 Helen joined Dale Vince at Ecotricity, “Britain’s Greenest Energy Company”, as Ambassador to further the company’s mission to create a ‘Green Britain’, managing the organisation’s campaigns, events, key partnerships, and charitable functions. She’s been instrumental in Dale’s football club, Forest Green Rovers FC (FGR) becoming the ‘greenest football club in the world’ (FIFA) and was one of the first female CEO’s in football when appointed as CEO of FGR in 2017, as the club transitioned into the English Football League.
In 2018 Helen founded her company, One Blue Marble enabling her to continue to support Dale, Ecotricity and FGR and expand her work with others, including overseeing the charity development activities for the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (formerly Sea Shepherd UK), who are tackling the destruction of habitat and the slaughter of wildlife in the ocean.
Helen is also a trustee of Dale’s charity, the Green Britain Foundation, she oversees the charity’s education activities, the Ministry of Eco Education and Young Green Briton Challenge and is a director of Catalyse Change.
She’s about making a difference; “if we all play our part, we’ll collectively change things for the better.”