2026 Shortlisted Nominee
Positive Role Model Award: LGBT
Dr Aimee Blease Bourne is a youth worker, community artist, researcher and facilitator whose practice focuses on access to nature, inclusion and belonging in rural landscapes. She is Director and Founder of Field Notes Nodiadau Maes, a community publishing organisation that brings marginalised rural voices into policy conversations. Her work includes Queering the Wye with the Wye Valley River Festival and innovative community building projects with Common Good Gloucestershire. Dr Blease Bourne organised the first Monmouth Pride and co facilitates the Our Friendly Forest EDIB Charter, shaping care based governance and rural narratives through research, creativity and lived experience.