Jackie Carpenter is a Quaker, a chartered engineer, a sustainability and renewable energy consultant, a granny, and a winner of cups for vegetables in the local show. She loves wildlife and the sea. She has founded two cohousing communities in Cornwall, and her on-line course in September 2020 “Cohousing in Country Buildings” was very well-received. Jackie wrote a book in 2016, “Hope on the Slope”, and is currently the editor of the Cornish Friend newsletter for Quakers, as well as being clerk of the Sustainability for Quakers in Cornwall Group.