Myles Bremner
Interim Director
Myles has spent his career working in the public and charity sectors, and has considerable experience dealing with multi stakeholder implementation projects, providing strategic support but also close project management where required.
He has recently advised the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation on their educational and campaigning work, including rolling out projects within UK and US higher educational establishments.
Between 2012 and 2016, Myles was the national Director of the UK government’s School Food Plan, working closely across government, education sector, campaigning charities and the wider commercial food sector, leading the implementation of the seventeen agreed actions within the Plan to transform food culture in our schools.
Previously, Myles was Chief Executive of Garden Organic, a leading UK educational horticultural charity, for six years. He was an Executive member of the London Food Board, a Trustee for Sustain, the Alliance for Better Food and Farming and chaired a Taskforce on food growing for Defra in 2011. He is a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Culinary Art’s Adopt a School.
Before working in the food sector, Myles had a career in the children and young people’s sector, including as Director of Fundraising at Action for Children (then NCH) and CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children. Myles has a firm grounding in the uniformed youth movement, having served as Head of Operational Support for St John Ambulance.
Outside of his busy schedule, Myles is a self-referred ‘unenthusiastic triathlete’ – Understanding the benefits of good exercise but reluctant all the same.
