We advance British pilgrimage as a form of cultural heritage that promotes holistic wellbeing, accessible to all

Carole Bamford has been a champion of sustainable, mindful living for over 40 years, driven by her profound belief that we need to work in harmony with nature. As the founder of Daylesford and Bamford, she is recognised as a visionary in organic farming, holistic wellness and sustainable hospitality.

Sir Mark Rylance is an English actor, theatre director, and playwright, widely regarded as one of the finest stage actors of his generation. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London (1995–2005) and has won an Academy Award, three Tony Awards, two Oliviers, and three BAFTAs. He loves visiting pilgrim places and has a deep connection with the land, as he expressed in the play Jerusalem.

Edmund de Waal CBE is an internationally acclaimed ceramic artist and author whose work explores the mutability of objects, the fragility of memory, and the material poetry of diaspora, exile and memorial. His practice spans ceramics, architecture, music, dance, poetry and museum intervention, with major works commissioned by leading institutions worldwide including The Rijksmuseum, The British Museum, The British Museum, the V&A, and the British Museum, Venice’s Museo Ebraico and New York’s Frick Collection.

De Waal is also known for his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), along with The White Road (2015) and Letters to Camondo (2021). His latest book, Archive (2025), gathers years of writing born from his engagement with personal and cultural archives.

Born in Nottingham (1964), he lives and works in London. His honours include the Windham-Campbell Prize (2015), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2021), a CBE (2021) for services to art, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2023), and France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2024).

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Galahad Clark is a seventh-generation shoemaker and the founder of Vivobarefoot, a pioneering footwear company dedicated to reconnecting people with nature through regenerative design and barefoot movement. A passionate advocate for health, sustainability and reconnection with the natural world, Galahad has reimagined what a modern business can be, one that restores rather than exploits. His partnership with the British Pilgrimage Trust reflects a shared belief in walking as a transformative act that deepens our relationship with ourselves, our communities and the living Earth.

Luke Sherlock is an author and the owner of 'Sherlock & Pages', a bookshop specialising in nature, landscape, history and heritage. Before this he worked in various sustainability roles for well over a decade and is a passionate environmentalist. He goes by @englishpilgrim on instagram where he regularly documents his journeys.

Alice Loxton is a history broadcaster and author with over three million followers on social media (@history_alice), where she educates on British heritage and history. Her second book, Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives, was a Sunday Times bestseller and Blackwell’s Book of the Year.

Broughton Sanctuary, now the UK’s leading Retreat Centre, has been Roger Tempest’s family home for 32 generations and over 900 years of history resting on his shoulders he has only one mission in life: to secure its future. Anyone who thinks living in a historic home is glamorous is sorely mistaken – Roger grew up with no heating, damp rooms and run-down buildings. But even at a young age, he knew he wanted to save it.

In the late 1980s, aged 25, Roger unexpectedly took on the role of custodian, ending his blossoming career on Fleet Street. (He’d heard Eddy Shah talking about the launch of the Today newspaper and inspired by his desire to challenge the status quo had asked for a job, ending up as Assistant to the Managing Editor.) So instead of working long term to make a success of the paper, Roger found himself working to make a success of the Estate. Never one to follow the norm, he decided against opening to the general public and instead created a plan that blended conservation, enterprise and innovation to regenerate not just Broughton Hall but the community around it.

His appointments range from executive chairman of a national infrastructure development project in Libya, on a board of an international homeless charity to being a joint founder of Wyrd Experience, a company which develops consciousness technology, to running a group of companies within Rural Concepts Group specialising in rural regeneration.

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and co-presenter of the top 10 podcast, The Rest is History. He is the author of Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000, Dominion, and the biography of Æthelstan, the first King of England and of Æthelflæd, England’s Forgotten Founder. Tom is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History and  has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs.

A life-long enthusiast of myths and ancient history, as well as a psychotherapist, the Duchess of Richmond is helping the BPT to fundraise and network in order to establish the Old Way route which passes near the Goodwood Estate, Chichester.