Sarah Kerr
PF President & Deputy Treasurer
Sarah is a healer, witch and is what many would call an eclectic follower of several Pagan paths. Sarah believes 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, she runs her own healing studio from her home in Derbyshire alongside her 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.
Sam D’Arcy-Darling
Communications Officer
Sam is our Communications Officer and has volunteered with the Pagan Federation for several years, primarily within the Interfaith Team. They have worked across a range of government and charitable organisations, including executive-level public bodies, and previously served as chair of a quasi-judicial human rights panel in North America. Sam is also a member of the Public Relations and Communications Association.
Sam is an eclectic Wiccan whose practice blends elements of Eastern Native American spirituality with Queer theory and British Wicca. They have been practising since their teenage years and bring experience as a former coven leader, faith advisor, and advocate for Pagan rights through human rights law. Sam achieved their tradition’s version of a Third Degree in 2017 and has remained a sole practitioner since, except during their periods of service. They hold an academic degree in Politics and Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies, which encompasses training across numerous religious, cultural, and belief traditions, including the Abrahamic faiths and multiple Native American traditions.
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.
Contact the Belief & Education Officer
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.
Melissa Wheeler
Interim District Liaison Officer
Chaplaincy Officer
Currently Vacant
If you have any queries relating to Chaplaincy, please contact us here
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.
Lee Smith
Council Representative to the Board
Hi, I’m Lee! I sit on the Board as a representative of the huge team of volunteers that make up the Pagan Federation. I am also the Regional Coordinator for Cambridgeshire and am a Pagan Faith Advisor to Anglia Ruskin University.
I joined the Pagan Federation team to campaign for equality. This is one of my core beliefs, and I was recently invited to speak to the Houses of Parliament on the subject.
I’m from a Wiccan background, and have been practicing in a coven and solitary for over two decades. I look for any excuse to be immersed deep in nature celebrating the elements. I run a architectural practice specialising in eco-design and sacred geometry.
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).