About
"I started All The Elements CIC because it was the community that I was looking for. I'm always searching for the central connections, collaboration and sharing. We are all stronger when we work together and raise each other up.
"After discussions with different individuals, groups and organisations working in the outdoors, I realised that there was actually very little sharing between activity areas and targeted community groups in the UK, despite the fact that they often faced similar barriers and challenges.”
- Soraya Abdel-Hadi, founder
who we are
Meet the All The Elements Team
Soraya Abdel-Hadi (she/her)
Founder and Director
Soraya’s love of the outdoors started in her childhood, when she would regularly spend time outdoors – walking, bike riding and horse riding. This obsession with nature has continued into adulthood.
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In 2014, she decided to leave her career as an equestrian journalist to study sustainability for business (One Planet MBA), and since then has worked in roles and on projects to create social and environmental change.
Through her work as a sustainability professional, writer and artist, she wants to help more people find their own connection with nature. As well as the physical and mental health benefits, she believes that the more people who connect with our outdoor environment, the more people will be passionate about protecting it.
In 2020, Soraya was announced as Lonely Planet Sustainable Storyteller 2021.
Soraya is a horse rider, hiker, climber (and climbing instructor), SUP lover, bamboo bike cyclist and occasional runner. She is based in Hampshire.
Frankie Dewar (she/they)
Communications Director
A joy enthusiast & lover of ALL kinds of adventure. In her other work Frankie supports people with purpose to use social media to amplify their message. She is one of the Directors of All The Elements.
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Despite living in a rural area Frankie didn’t grow up enjoying the outdoors, and didn’t discover it until going to university in her mid twenties.
Since then she’s fallen in love with all kinds of activities: hiking, climbing, cycling, skiing, and swimming... you name it!
In her other work Frankie supports people with purpose to use social media to amplify their message. Particularly focusing on the intersection between adventure and activism.
She completed her own 3000km cycle journey in 2020 creating an award winning podcast Extraordinary Ordinary You. And has founded the Purposeful Adventure Club to make tailored social media advice more accessible.
Often found in the mountains with messy hair and muddy boots
Sabrina Pace-Humphreys (she/her)
Business Development and Partnerships Manager
‘In the outdoors I found freedom, I found community and - ultimately - I found myself.’
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Sabrina grew up in a rural town where no-one looked like her and, due to her lived experience, developed a fear of the outdoors. However, through running for mental health management and - in that process - finding trail running, she reclaimed a once dangerous space for herself and - since 2020 - for ethnically diverse communities.
Sabrina is an ultra marathoner and trail runner, basically meaning she runs hundreds of miles outdoors for fun! Events she has participated in include the Marathon Des Sables, The Spine Race and the Winter Downs 200. She is a qualified run coach, personal trainer, author, motivational speaker and - in 2020 - founded and is trustee of the community and campaigning charity, Black Trail Runners
Sabrina’s professional background lies in marketing and public relations. Following years spent working for corporate and consumer clients in agencies, in 2004 she founded - and for 16 years ran - her own award winning PR agency.
Patsy Mulcahy (she/her)
Admin Manager
If you find Patsy outdoors, you’ve found her in her happy place! Having spent the last few years deriving so much of her fulfilment from being outside in nature, she is driven to support work that both protects these spaces and makes them more inclusive.
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Climbing is Patsy’s favourite thing to do, however, she dabbles in lots of other activities such as cycling touring and. When she was 19 she cycled over 2000km from west spain back home and completed a 500k solo bike tour on a bike whose back wheel was disconnected (she didn’t know how to fix anything back then!).
Professionally, Patsy has an undergraduate degree (1st class:) )in Sustainability and Environmental Management, where she wrote her dissertation on ‘The Sustainability of Rock Climbing and Outdoor Rock Climbing Spaces’. She has been working with various charities and CICs since she graduated in 2022 and is also a sustainability consultant for an 8000 capacity music festival.
Dawn Warden (she/her)
Consultant - Virtual Assistant
Dawn has loved being outdoors since childhood but really developed a passion for outdoors activities such as hiking, cycling, kayaking and camping as an adult.
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Dawn has loved being outdoors since childhood but really developed a passion for outdoors activities such as hiking, cycling, kayaking and camping as an adult. She understands the importance of the outdoors for all round wellbeing and now lives in the countryside with regular access to rural spaces. Access for Dawn is especially important as a disabled adventurer.
Francesca Turauskis (she/her)
Content Manager
Francesca Turauskis is a writer, audio producer and the Founder of Tremula Network, an audio-first podcast company focused on widening the perception of outdoors and adventure culture.
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Francesca is passionate about audio as a way to connect to the outdoors and others. She’s an award-winning audio producer, and a writer with a wide range of subjects under her belt. She also runs monthly sessions on podcast The Outdoors Podcast Club and has just announced the first Tremula Festival, a celebration of audio, nature and outdoors.
She is a big advocate for active travel, which she was initially steered into by her epilepsy diagnosis. She has been known to walk and run silly distances across countries by herself and has shared her adventures with epilepsy on stage, on podcasts and in magazines.
Kikelomo Grace Agunbiade
(she/her)
Consultant
Kike has loved the outdoors, adventures, and sports from a very young age. A qualified science teacher, with a post-grad certificate in outdoor environmental & sustainability education, she provides consultancy on Race & Equality to schools and is currently re-training to become a barrister.
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Kike has loved the outdoors, adventures, and sports from a very young age. From early experiences of hiking, kayaking and hockey to playing rugby for her university and more recently getting involved in triathlon, trail running and cycle touring, Kike believes the outdoors should be for everyone and that there is much work to be done to make the outdoor, countryside, conservation and sport sectors more accessible and inclusive.
Professionally she is a qualified science teacher, has a post-graduate certificate in outdoor environmental and sustainability education, provides consultancy on Race and Equality to schools and is currently re-training to become a barrister.
Anisah Barber (she/her)
Disability Campaigner Socials
Anisah is a disabled outdoor enthusiast, the Founder and writer for Outside: Our Way, which shares stories of disabled and chronically ill folk in the outdoors. She hosts the All The Elements Disability Campaigner Socials.
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Anisah is a disabled outdoor enthusiast with Lupus, Fibromyalgia and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD). After many years of being afraid to go outside because of her disability, she finally started hiking in 2019 to improve her quality of life. It didn’t take long for her to get hooked on other outdoor activities such as wild swimming, climbing and more.
Since then she has been learning to adapt the way she goes outdoors to meet the limitations of her disability. She has become an outdoor disability campaigner and is seeking to increase disability awareness, accessibility and inclusion in the outdoor sector.
She is the founder and writer for the blog Outside: Our Way, which shares stories of disabled and chronically ill folk in the outdoors in a series of interviews. Anisah also hosts the All The Element Disability Campaigner Socials online, where people working on disability inclusion in the outdoors can network, share ideas and issues, and work towards solutions together.
Sarah G. (she/her)
Editor
Sarah has always loved spending time outdoors and despite living in Birmingham, she carves out time to travel to quieter, greener spaces. In her day-to-day work, she holds a number of roles, all with a focus on supporting people. She supports All The Elements with editing.
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Sarah has always loved spending time outdoors and despite living in Birmingham, she carves out time to travel to quieter, greener spaces.She particularly loves the positive effects that spending time outdoors can have on mental health. Her favourite outdoor activities include; hiking, swimming and although it’s very much a love/hate relationship, she does keep giving running a go. Recently, she’s started SUP and is off to a wobbly start.
In her day-to-day work, she holds a number of roles, all with a focus on supporting people. She is the Community Engagement Manager at Mental Health Swims CIC, she is a qualified Executive Coach and coaches leaders through personal and professional development issues, focusing on confidence and self-esteem and she is a freelance writer.
contributors
Kareen Griffiths (she/her)
Kareen spent most of her earlier life living in the city and fell in love with the outdoors when she moved to the countryside 10 years ago.
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Kareen spent most of her earlier life living in the city and fell in love with the outdoors when she moved to the countryside 10 years ago.
With her working life previously focused in the corporate world, Kareen found that walking and connecting to nature was therapeutic and calming and a respite from fast paced working life.
This appreciation for the outdoors, has led her to become a passionate advocate for raising awareness of the mental health benefits of living in the countryside and nature.
Through her work as a Mindfulness Teacher, Kareen is passionate about creating more opportunities for people from underrepresented backgrounds to connect to nature through mindfulness.
Kareen is a walker and loves to be outside living life with a mindful vibe.
Want to join our team?
We are always looking for volunteers to build our resource library, write online content, run events and generally help us support our community.
If you’d like to find out more, please email hello@alltheelements.co and tell us a bit about you and what you’d be most interested in.