Meet our team

Rachel Dring - Capital Growth Coordinator

A Londoner born and bred, Rachel started her sustainable food journey as an intern at Sustain in 2012. She was working as a vegan chef at the time and went on to set up and run a local veg scheme called Crop Drop. She also helped to establish a community food hub at Wolves Lane, set up a community kitchen and food growing operation there and worked on marketing at Growing Communities alongside. She grows food at home and with her local community garden in Woodford. Her current and enduring obsession is her small brood of hens.

Lula Wattam - London Food Growing & Networks Officer 

Lula is passionate about urban nature and ensuring it is accessible and enjoyable to all. Since completing an Undergraduate (SOAS) and MRes (Goldsmiths) in Anthropology she has worked as an Engagement Officer with Thames21 on Chestnuts Field Wetland, as well as a Librarian, Gardener, Prop Designer and an award winning Activities Coordinator building vegetable patches with elderly and disabled

adults across London.

Sarah Williams - Programmes Director

Sarah Williams joined the team in November 2009. Previous roles have included support and development of various community groups and projects in London, particularly at Groundwork East London where she was involved in environmental regeneration projects.

Most recently Sarah was the Strategic Manager of a Food Access Partnership, where she coordinated implemented a Food and Nutrition Strategic Plan, influencing local decision-making, developing food projects and setting up local networks.

Sarah has a Masters in Leadership for Sustainable Development, achieved through the Forum for the Future’s Masters Programme. She is also an unpaid director at Food from the Sky, an innovative food-growing project on the roof of a supermarket in Crouch End.