We are very sad to share the news of the passing of former colleague and well-known broadcaster, Sarah Chesters.
Sarah had worked at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Garden Rosemoor for nearly 20 years as the Education & Learning Manager responsible for inspiring thousands of children on free school workshops as well as coordinating hundreds of short courses and demonstrations for adults to learn new skills.
Her legacy includes developing the schools programme from just outside learning to a temporary log cabin classroom, to the opening of the state-of-the-art Learning Centre in 2012 with its two fully equipped classrooms, full time teachers and volunteers. In 2019, Sarah and her team welcomed over 6000 schoolchildren from across the whole region. It is near the Learning Centre that the garden team at Rosemoor are going to create a memorial planting to include one of her favourite flowers – snowdrops.
The tributes to Sarah have already started flowing in from colleagues and teachers alike, sharing above all Sarah’s kind, patient and inspiring ways of working with people, especially children. She will be missed tremendously by all that knew her.
If you would like to share your thoughts of Sarah, please email them in to schoolsrosemoor@rhs.org.uk.
We send our love to her family and friends.
Sarah Chesters 1960 - 2021