About Nature’s work
Nature’s work is run by Jim Langley and provides educational training events and skills courses to individuals and groups.
Jim Langley holds the Mountain Leader Summer and John Muir Leader qualifications. He has been involved with the outdoors since a young age and in 2008 achieved a masters degree in conservation and land management.
Jim has developed a broad wealth of experience leading groups in the outdoors not only in environmental education but also as an expedition leader. He became a tutor with the Field Studies Council where he has taught groups in both ecology and geography across the UK since 1996. He has led expeditions to East Africa, Mongolia and Borneo he has also travelled with work to South America.
His main enjoyment comes from general mountaineering and connecting with nature. Jim is often seen on his bike on which he has journeyed through Patagonia, New Zealand and the UK. As a team member Jim plays an active role with the Ogwen valley Mountain Rescue Organisation which he joined in 2006.
Candida Hillman has over a decade of classroom teaching experience a former head of science and science consultant. Candida incorporated access to the biological environment for both key stage 3 and key stage 4 students by designing fieldwork opportunities throughout the biology schemes of work to develop the same keen explorative relationship she has always enjoyed with her students. Her Masters degree in Tropical Hydrobiology and fisheries involved extensive sampling of both the aquatic and terrestrial environments in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique and recreational exploration of Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.
Sally Wrigley holds the Mountain Leader Winter Award (training), Single Pitch Award for climbing and Trail Cycle Leader. Along with these outdoor qualifications Sally is a qualified teacher in Science and Outdoor Activities and a Combat Medic with the Royal Welsh Territorial Army.
Sally has enjoyed working and leading adventure seeking groups for many years both at home here in Snowdonia and further afield to places such as Venezuela, Thailand, Nepal, Australia, Costa Rica, Peru and Chile. Mountaineering is a passion for Sally and she has gained experience in the Alps, Canada, himalaya, Chile and throughout the UK in both winter and summer conditions.