Co-founder, Director & Site Manager

Biography

Mike is a qualified teacher, youth worker and education manager with over thirty years of community-based learning engagement experience. Mike is passionate about accessible lifelong training opportunities, particularly those in the great outdoors and promotes a learning without walls ethos.

Mike loves coming up with ideas but never ask him to do any DIY!!.

He has sat on regional and national boards for tackling young unemployment and homelessness and has developed multi-agency strategies and training for educational improvement and achievement.

His STEP Learning Programme achieved an Ofsted Grade 1 for its work with marginalised young people across Norfolk, while his unique Street Life Soccer scheme continues to support members of the homeless community across the region.

In July 2017 Mike was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The University of West London for his work in education. In July 2022 Mike was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from The University of East Anglia for his work in the local community.

Favourite thing about working at The Bread Kitchen

There are so many fantastic elements of The Bread Kitchen, although personally it’s the animals, particularly the sheep I love the most. As an animal lover I’d always wanted pets, so never imagined that i'd be lucky enough to have my own farm.