In tandem with this inch-wide starting point, Immy simultaneously established the mile-deep aspect, in the form of the Re Festival. This six-day online ideas festival was held in the first weeks of the pandemic, and saw an array of the world’s most original thinkers and doers invited to share their ideas and insights at the very beginning of CIVIC

‘arms open conservation,’ an approach that would involve and inspire visitors to make a deeper connection to the Trust’s places. In service of this, she had recently pushed more power out of the head office and into the hands of those working on the ground, at the places themselves.