● Who We Are
This Living Place is led by a small, committed team rooted across Somerset, Dorset, and Devon.
We bring together experience in community organising, facilitation, culture, systems thinking, and place-based development. What unites us is a deep commitment to places and a belief in working with care, integrity, and long-term responsibility.
Meet the Team
● Staff Team
Who We Are
Emma Butterworth
CO-Director: Networks & StrategyEmma is a strategist, facilitator and regenerative systems change practitioner with 18 years’ experience helping organisations and communities turn complex ideas into clear, practical action. She has worked across sectors and organisational cultures, supporting transformation, collaboration and meaningful change.
Alongside her consultancy background, Emma holds a Master’s Degree in Regenerative Economics from University of Plymouth and Schumacher College, and is an Art of Hosting practitioner. Her work is rooted in participatory, community-led approaches that build trust, unlock collective insight and create lasting systems change.
Emma Holly
Communications & EngagementEmma is a Dorset-born-and-raised communications practitioner, writer and environmental changemaker. She has experience spanning both grassroots and national communications, and place-based community work. Her passion for people-centred storytelling, alongside a deep respect of the land, greatly shapes her work.
Emma’s experience includes working in the RNLI’s national press office, an active involvement in grassroots organising, and co-facilitating both online gatherings and an in-person community action group. Her work is driven by a belief in the power of communications, people, and place-based action.
Laura Tyley
founding director: Laura has spent the past decade working with grassroots organisations at local, national and international levels, building community-led, systemic responses to social, environmental and economic challenges.
Her work connects big-picture systems thinking with hyperlocal action. She has worked on hundreds of community-led initiatives, engaging thousands of people and contributing to growing movements rooted in place, connection and collective action.
Over the past three years, she has built This Living Place from the ground up, developing practical and innovative ways for communities to organise, collaborate and shape their own futures.
Daisy Turner
Community food resilienceWith a background in social science and environmental agriculture, Daisy offers first-hand expertise in the food production and retail industries. She is a dedicated systems thinker focused on developing and improving equitable supply chains that benefit both consumers and small-scale, regenerative food producers.
Her work at This Living Place, which she joined in 2026 through a partnership with Youth Environmental Service, focuses on working with community food projects in Somerset and driving regenerative change.
● Board
Jennifer Morisetti
NON-EXecutive DirectorSustainability innovator bridging local energy, circular economy, and community resilience.
Deanne Tremlett
NON-EXecutive DirectorCommunity arts leader cultivating connection, creativity, and courage in rural, local life.
● Extended Team
● Extended Team
Fractional cfoFinancial systems thinker embedding clarity, care, and long-term sustainability in how we grow.
Harriet Formby
● Our Supporters
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local FuturesMartin Stanley
Huda Javed
This Living Place AlumniHuda was the first young person to join our team through a Youth Environmental Service placement. She has since gone on to exciting new opportunities, taking what she learned with TLP out into the world while continuing to be part of our wider community - sharing learning, connections and insights back with us along the way.
