Máire Ní Bhraonáin

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Nominee

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Máire Ní Bhraonáin is CEO of the Acorn Project, a non-profit organisation delivering nature based learning and wellbeing programmes that empower communities to take action in ecological restoration through reconnection with their local wild spaces..

Máire is an educator, forest school practitioner, herbalist, wild food forager and forest therapy guide with a background in public engagement and sociology. She leads projects in community seed saving, forest school, nature connection and place-based learning programmes.