Sarah Kerr
President
Hi there, I’m a healer, witch and is what many would call an eclectic follower of several Pagan paths. I believe deeply that everyone should be able to practice their faith, whatever that is, without prejudice no matter what their path, age, race, gender, sexuality or life circumstances be.
Married with four children, I run my own healing studio from my home in Derbyshire alongside my volunteer work.
Contact Sarah
Krys Holmes
Vice President, Volunteer and Training Officer & Children and Families Manager
I’m Krys and I wear a few hats within Pagan Federation. On a local level I’m the Families liaison and local coordinator for Wakefield. On a national level I’m Vice President, the Volunteer and Training Officer and National Children and Families Manager.
I was brought up in the Christian faith but there were always elements that didn’t quite sit right with me, then at University I discovered Paganism and suddenly everything I believed fell into place. Since then I got very involved with the local Pagan community; I run the local moot and am on the local interfaith committee representing Pagans; I also have PF stalls at local events and festivals. My path is eclectic but I have a particular connection with Lilith. You will often find me down the allotment or in my craft room; my day job is making metal and gemstone jewellery as well as crochet bits and bobs. More recently I became a parent and have all the joys (and sleepless nights) associated with it; I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Emma Shinn
2nd Vice President & Advocacy Officer
Emma is our Advocacy Officer, Second Vice President and Safeguarding Deputy. She has been volunteering for the Pagan Federation since 2015, starting out as a Local Coordinator.
Emma’s path is Druid and eclectic witchcraft. She has been openly pagan for over ten years and often speaks at festivals and events.
She is a child protection lawyer in her day job which has been beneficial to her advocacy role and lives with her husband, children and two dogs.
Keith Tovey
General Secretary & IT Officer
Keith has been on PF Committee in one role or another for a very long time. Keith is a Witch of various traditions.
Anita Murray
Treasurer
Hi, I’m Anita, and I look after The Pagan Federation’s finances and financial strategy. I’m a Chartered Accountant, specialising in charity accounting. My aim is to ensure that our resources are managed wisely so that our community can continue to thrive and grow.
I come from an Irish working-class background, which means I was raised Catholic with a strong current of folk magic woven through everyday life. I found Paganism in my teens, and it felt like coming home. I’m an initiate of the Feri Tradition, working both in a
coven and solitary practice, as well as a devotee of Inanna-Ishtar.
I’m passionate about learning from the wide range of paths and traditions within our community, and I feel deeply honoured to be able to give something back through my work with The Pagan Federation.
Tessa Lowe-Rawlings
Communications Officer
Hello, I’m Tessa, the Communications Officer here at The Pagan Federation. I have been a practicing hedgewitch for around 20 years, a path that deeply informs both my daily life and my professional work. Balancing life as a mother of two, I am fiercely passionate about minimising ecological harm and protecting our natural environment. Alongside my role with the Federation, I also work as a psychic, healer, and spiritual mentor helping others navigate their own spiritual journeys.
Mike Stygal
Belief & Education Officer
I’m Mike Stygal. Many will already know me as a past President, quite possibly also as a vocal
advocate for Interfaith and was part of the team that secured our membership of the Interfaith
Network in 2014, I also convened the Pagan and Heathen Symposium in the same year, bringing
together representatives from the national Pagan and Heathen organisations with help from many
others.
I’m a retired teacher (Drama, English, English as an Additional Language and RE, and a behaviour
specialist) and was one of the original PF representatives to the Religious Education council when we
joined them in addition to holding a position as Vice Chair of a London Borough Standing Advisory
Council on Religious Education. I’ve continued to work in Interfaith and Intrafaith settings, and have
maintained many connections with education.
I’ve identified as a Pagan for 39 years, exploring a number of Pagan traditions before finally settling
on Shamanic work as my personal path. However, I have some familiarity with working in other
traditions, weaving in an element of a shamanic state of consciousness of the realm of spirit to those
rites and experiences.
Sam Stoker
Community Support Officer (CSO)
I’ve been pagan since my early teens and live in the north east of England with my husband, young children, German shepherd dog, six cats, and chickens.
I write and copy edit for Pagans of the North magazine and have a particular interest in decolonising practice, and avoiding closed practices and cultural appropriation.
I love the outdoors and the natural world, am a long term vegan, and my interests include reading, gaming, drinking tea, folklore, and doomscrolling through my phone.
Lyn O’Callaghan
District Liaison Officer
Hi, I’m Lyn O’Callaghan and am the District Liaison Officer for the Pagan Federation.
I am passionate about strengthening Pagan communities and ensuring that volunteers feel supported, valued and connected to the wider Pagan Federation. I organise a monthly local Moot and an online Pagan book club, and am an active member and High Priestess of a Wiccan Coven.
In the mundane world, I am a counsellor and tutor.
I believe strongly in collaborative leadership, good communication and creating welcoming spaces where people from all Pagan traditions and backgrounds can participate and thrive. I hope to bring my experience within both the Federation and wider community, alongside my professional skills, to the role of District Liaison Officer.
Awen Clement
Chaplaincy Officer
I have been pagan all my life, having been raised in a pagan family. I follow an earth centred, animistic path and have been a community priestess for over 15 years. I’ve previously been a hospice chaplain and am now a pagan chaplain within the prison service. I really believe in the importance of good spiritual and pastoral care to help people get through the hard parts of being human.
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Anne Edward
PF Environmental Policy Officer
My name is Anne Edward. I am old, retired and a widow. I live in a market town in Suffolk.
I started my Pagan Federation ‘career’ over 10 years ago now. I began as the regional coordinator for Cambridgeshire. I moved house and my role changed to Norfolk. I was elected to the committee in 2018 as Council Representative to the Committee.
I have always been a keen environmentalist. For many years I was an activist and during that time I went on many actions. I met some really interesting people over the years including Bob Geldof, Bianca Jagger and Annie Lennox to name a few. During 2009/2010 I lived part time in a protest camp, and we WON. Possibly the most interesting environmental job I did was as a researcher for the Biscay Dolphin research project.
We recognise that good environmental management is an essential part of overall good practice and the backbone of our nature-based beliefs.
Great Mother Earth of the land, sea and sky.
Let us protect and nurture you once again.
We ask that we are all able to work together in harmony with this common goal.
We ask that with our love, thoughts, deeds and
actions.
We help to light the path of your healing for a better world.
Hannah Semple
Council Representative to the Board
I’m on the Board as a Council Representative, but hold many roles within the Pagan Federation including Editor in Chief for Pagan Dawn, Intrafaith Manager and Liaison on the Families Team. I have been Pagan for about 30 years with an eclectic practice that is very much poetic and nature orientated to my local environment. I believe everyone should have a choice and a voice which is why I volunteer.
Sif Brookes
Council Representative to the Board
Hello! I am the Publications Manager, and more applicably here, second Council Representative to the Board (and one of the Copy Editors for Pagan Dawn). I am a Norse Heathen who predominantly worships Hel, Freyja, Sif, Skaði, Eir, Ran, Angrboða, Thor and the Valkyries. I am a co-host of the Heathen Wyrdos podcast, digital artist, as well as being a consultant and speaker for inclusive paganism and heathenry. I am particularly interested in historical seiðr, and the role of the Valkyrie in redefining how we see the Eddas and the greater sphere of Nordic literature. As well as having a noted obsession with pre-Christian Germanic beliefs around death and burial (which you may be able to tell from the choice of deities I predominantly worship).