Who we are

Flo Headlam is a garden designer, TV presenter, writer, and music lover. She is passionate about the healing power of music as a form of therapy and very supportive of the work that Vital Beats is doing. Flo has twenty years’ experience working in charities serving communities in the UK and internationally.

As well as working professionally as a garden designer, she is involved in several community gardens in the London area, working with schools on gardening projects and going into schools to inspire young people about gardening. Flo is a qualified garden designer, has a BA in African Studies, and a TEFL teaching qualification.

Flo loves the outdoors, music festivals, theatre and dance. She also loves good food, travelling and quiet time on her yoga mat.

35 years of Organisational Leadership in the financial industry. Responsibilities included operations, finance, project management, compliance, human resources, risk management, litigation, merger and acquisitions, and technology. 20 years ago Deb became an independent business consultant and expanded her range to procurement contracts, clinical information technology and collegiate platforms. 

Yet her proudest accomplishment was developing and launching a fellow's program for undergraduate business students. This has become her passion as she looks for opportunities to mentor underprivileged young adults.  Deb enjoys CrossFit training, powerlifting and gardening.

Ruth Pitter MBE is co-founder and co-director of two theatre companies: Breathing Fire Playback Theatre Company; and Black Women Let Loose Theatre Company.

She is a qualified teacher in lifelong learning, a qualified Community and Youth work practitioner and a consultant in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. She co-manages two nature based wellbeing organisations, Soul Trail Wellbeing and Grace the Space.

Dan was a partner in an international law firm for many years, working in a corporate/commercial environment.

He then stepped back from his legal career to spend more time with family, taking on the role of principal carer and some voluntary work. Dan is devotee of music and how it can transform lives and promote wellbeing.  He spent many years learning and performing in drum and dance ensembles in community settings in and around London. He is a great believer in the therapeutic effects of music.

Dan is also passionate about baking bread, practices Pilates and loves the sea, big skies, mountains and walking.

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a qualified business & finance professional, as well as a qualified teacher of classical Hatha Yoga, Andrew has a variety of experience supporting charities, quoted companies, owner-managed businesses and government organisations. Recent posts as Chief Financial Officer of an internationally owned engineering company and a UK property group that provides homes for the homeless.

For several years, Andrew was Head of Social Enterprise for multi-million-pound property group, responsible for groundbreaking programmes aimed at improving sustainability and resilience of society. These include a project to rehabilitate ex-offenders and research and education into issues of sustainability which led to Andrew to become a founder Director of a renewable energy co-operative. Andrew runs a Chartered Accountancy firm - as well as providing training in Classical yoga.