meet the team

TOM

Tom's love of food, music and nature has been the driving force behind all his work. He's established a community cafe, managed a music venue, co-founded a street food collective, catered for weddings and events at Fforest and was head chef at the Centre For Alternative Technology's sustainable cafe. Nowadays, he works full time as a facilitator with Ein Cegin delivering workshops and looking at new opportunities to connect people with the local, healthy and sustainable food. He also privately caters under the name Swper with Tom. In his spare time he likes to go walking and foraging with his family, doing yoga, and DJing with the Sonic Sounds collective.

MAYA

Maya joined the Ein Cegin team as a facilitator in January 2024 after a couple of years working as a chef. She also makes butter and cheese at Caws Teifi, and loves eating and talking to people about cheese. In her spare time she can be found walking in the woods, making dumplings and looking for treasures at car boot sales.

LIZ

Liz has worked with food for four decades, from the trail blazing River Café in London to her own cafés in Bristol and now in Cardigan, West Wales with Ein Cegin sharing knowledge and learning from others, working to create nutritious, delicious and accessible meals for and with the community.

SOPHIE

Sophie is co-founder and director of Ein Cegin and has over ten years experience leading social justice organisations. She runs Ein Cegin’s day to day work, including managing projects and working closely with partner organisations and community groups.

JOSH

Josh is co-founder and director of Ein Cegin. He is a passionate cook, and food grower. Formerly a history teacher, he has extensive experience working in deprived areas of London and Bristol with vulnerable families, children in care and those living in food-insecure households. Josh is passionate about growing food using agroecological techniques that benefit people and planet. He facilitates Ein Cegin workshops .

SEREN

Seren is a visual artist, workshop practitioner and a fluent Welsh speaker. Formerly community art co-ordinator and education officer at Oriel Myrddin, she is now a freelance arts practitioner working on creative art and food projects with local schools and organisations. Her own artwork engages with the natural world, searching for small and meaningful encounters within her local environment and creating artists' tools from nature, all with the aim of increasing wellbeing and lowering her environmental impact. She helped establish Bara Menyn Bakehouse where she gained her passion for baking and understood the power of food to bring people together. She became a director of Ein Cegin in 2022  because she believes passionately in food equity and access to good, healthy and nutritious food for all through Ein Cegin's joyous community workshop model.