Staff

She has worked at the Dartington Estate since 2005 and has over ten years of experience in community media, events production, and project management. She is currently secretary of Soundart Radio, an arts based community station for Totnes and Dartington. Sarah founded and organised the festival ‘Stream’, a Series of Transdisciplinary Rituals and Events in Art and Music, and in 2018 reunited the international Dartington College of Arts alumni community into living and working together again on the Estate. Sarah is training in Body-Mind Centering and practices Scaravelli-inspired yoga. She teaches independently as Sound Site Somatics, as well as a visiting teacher for short courses at Schumacher College and the School of Experiential Learning.

Valerie began her career working as a Medical PA before moving on to operational roles in the BBC and Torbay Council. Prior to working at Schumacher she worked at Research in Practice, also on the Dartington Estate. She brings her breadth of experience to the role where she supports the Head of College in the smooth running of the community.

Valerie loves the diversity of life at the College and has discovered a new found love of craft in the four years she has worked here. She can frequently be found helping others at our weekly Knitting Club or helping in the Schumacher kitchens whenever she gets the opportunity.

Born in Glastonbury, Somerset, Colum admits he is rarely happier than when in a muddy field. He has run a number of small agriculture businesses and also worked as a freelance horticulture consultant. He has run a market garden, worked with community supported agriculture, spent a year as part of an intentional community at Radford Mill, near Bristol, and WOOFed (worked on an organic farm) his way around France and Spain. His spare time is spent walking with his wife and two children, singing and improving his unicycling.

Colin is the former Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Plymouth.

He is actively involved in the development of the academic portfolio at Dartington Trust with our accrediting partners at the University of Plymouth. Colin is on a number of editorial boards, including Message Journal