Phone: 07847 427004

         Email: minimonsters@hotmail.co.uk

Kate Jackson ... a.k.a. The Bug Lady!

BSc Hons (first class) in Psychology & Zoology, University of Reading

Conservation expedition to a rainforest reserve in Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2000

Education Officer in two zoos and a local authority recycling scheme

(photo with Perkins the Brazilian tapir at Blackpool Zoo, who liked a good scratch).

Work experience at the BBC Natural History Department in Bristol  (including a day filming lemurs with Steve Leonard - photo left)

Set up MiniMonsters in 2004 with help from WEETU.

Finalist: East of England Gala for the Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2005

University Certificate (Masters level) in Education for Sustainability, London South Bank University, 2006

MiniMonsters supports the World Land Trust, a locally based, international conservation charity that takes real action to secure threatened ecosystems.

Core group member of Sustainable Bungay, part of the Transition Towns network, and organiser of Bungay's Car Free Day on September 22nd, 2008 & 2009 and the first Give and Take Day on March 21st, 2009.  Other SB projects I am involved in include the development of the library courtyard and a carbon audit of Bungay households.  I organised a coach to the The Wave climate change demo in London and I also grow my own fruit and veg on my allotment.

Television & Radio interviews & appearances - Inside Out (with Trinny the tarantula), The Politics Show, Radio Four Women's Hour, BBC Radio Suffolk, Question Time

I'm also a member of Waveney Light Opera Group (my favourite role so far was as Miranda in Return to the Forbidden Planet) and much of my spare time is also devoted to my wonderful Haflinger horses.