Meet the festival’s contributors

Cobey Smith Cobey Smith

Cobey Smith

Cobey is a second year Anthropology and Media student, studying at Goldsmiths University. He is in charge of processing event information and organising webinars, as well as photographing and filming some of the events throughout UTF 2024.

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Rhodri Regan Rhodri Regan

Rhodri Regan

Rhodri is a second-year Promotional Media: PR, Advertising and Branding student and a qualified fitness instructor. He volunteered for UTF ‘24, co-writing and editing the daily newsletter, writing blogs and doing some photography work.

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Krisha Valia

Krisha is a second year journalism student with a passion for writing and reading. She is in charge of co-writing the Urban Tree Festival newsletters and press releases for UTF 2024

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Frances Goh Frances Goh

Frances Goh

Frances is a BA Promotional Media Student in her penultimate year at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a creative who volunteered with the ticketing and operations management of UTF 2024.

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Sara Hayes Sara Hayes

Festival Director 2024

Sara Hayes is the Festival Director for UTF 2024, overseeing the management and bringing the events and heritgage of trees to life.

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Thomas Scott Thomas Scott

Thomas Scott

Thomas is a second-year Media & Communications student at Goldsmiths, University of London. He took charge of website management for the Urban Tree Festival 2024.

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Volunteers

Check out our team of dedicated volunteers helping to make the Urban Tree Festival happen!

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Steering Group

You can find the bios of the Urban Tree Festival’s Steering Group here. The list of names include Paul Wood, Andrew Stuck, Mel Sutton, Simon Edwards, Peter Fiennes, Neil Sinden, Carole Wright, Greg Packman, and Peter Coles

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Programme Contributors

Check out our programme contributors here! They’ve been involved in the individual events in the Urban Tree Festival 2020.

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Canopy Authors

These writers are the winners from two competitions run by the Museum of Walking and Sampson Low Publishers whose works have been published in two illustrated anthologies: “Canopy” and “Autumn Colours”. The competition required writers to compose poems or stories of 250 words and under. This contributor list features writers from ‘Canopy’.

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Autumn Colours Authors

These writers are the winners from two competitions run by the Museum of Walking and Sampson Low Publishers whose works have been published in two illustrated anthologies: “Canopy” and “Autumn Colours”. The competition required writers to compose poems or stories of 250 words and under. This contributor list features writers from ‘Autumn Colours’.

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Natalia Jurkun

Natalia is one of our team of dedicated volunteers helping to make the Urban Tree Festival happen.

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Rachele Markle

Rachele has worked in communications for Amnesty International and PEP the Hague before moving to Edinburgh to pursue her masters at Edinburgh Napier University,

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Ross Findlay

Ross is a soon-to-be graduate of the Edinburgh Napier Festival and Events Management programme and works as a freelance event coordinator.

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Erica Cham

Erica currently works as the Entertainment and Events admin in the Edinburgh University Students’ Association, and is responsible for implementing events that attract a diverse international audience.

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Alana Cook

Alana is a current postgraduate student at Edinburgh Napier University studying International Festival and Event Management.

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John Humphries

John is one of our team of dedicated volunteers helping to make the Urban Tree Festival happen.

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