Meet the Team

Circle of Soup came together through our shared belief that good health and good food should be fun and available to everyone.

We trialed our workshops throughout 2023 with the NHS, charities and privately, whilst developing our “train the trainer model” in partnership with West Hampstead Community Centre, Camden; SufraNW Food Charity, Brent; Violet Melchett NHS Health Centre, Kensington & Chelsea; and Cook for Good, Priory Green Estate, Islington. 

These collaborations have helped us roll out our vision of democratising good health through food. We are a not for profit organisation and rely on grants, charity funding, and volunteers.

  • Sarah Walter & Jane Edwards

    CO-FOUNDERS

    Sarah Walter & Jane Edwards have been friends since meeting at art school in the 1980s.  They’ve cooked and eaten a lot of food together over the intervening decades. 

    Sarah has a background in fashion & business, is a qualified coach and is our business lead. She is a qualified Functional Nutrition Counsellor which brought her to co-found Circle of Soup in 2023.

    These days she likes to spend as much time as possible in her vegetable patch on a Welsh mountain.

    Jane Edwards is an Integrative Psychotherapist (MA,UKCP reg.), a clinical supervisor and trainer. Her interest in the connection between food, mental health and environmentalism led her to train alongside Sarah in Functional Nutrition Counselling in 2022.

    She is slightly obsessed with the alchemy that goes on in her compost heap in NW London, and can’t understand why everyone doesn’t get into the joy of compost.

  • Jane Myat

    MEDICAL LEAD

    Jane Myat is our medical lead. Jane was a GP Partner at the Caversham Group Practice in North Central London from 1997 until 2024. Jane is a council member for the College of Medicine, trustee for the Camden Anchor and a fellow of the Patient Revolution.

    Jane has been delighted to bring together her passion for health creation work through food and connection- building by joining the Circle of Soup team.

  • Chloe Payne

    FACILITATOR & CO-ORDINATOR

    Chloe Payne is a talented chef and nutritionalist currently working in the community kitchen at SufraNW as well as facilitating our workshops. She has an MSc in Clinical & Public Health Nutrition from UCL and a background in publishing and the NHS. Her brilliantly diverse skills are the perfect addition to Circle of Soup.

Our Collaborators

Caversham GP Practice, Camden

SufraNW Community Food Hub, Brent

Cook for Good, Priory Green Estate, Islington

Violet Melchett Health & Wellbeing Hub, NHS Kensington & Chelsea