Education
Born as Janet Elizabeth Hood in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, Bloomfield was educated at Abbeydale Grange School, Sheffield and Sussex University, where she obtained a Bachelor (Honours) degree in Geography.
Born as Janet Elizabeth Hood in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, Bloomfield was educated at Abbeydale Grange School, Sheffield and Sussex University, where she obtained a Bachelor (Honours) degree in Geography.
Bloomfield was the Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the largest peace and disarmament organisation in Europe from 1993 to 1996. During this time she helped to develop Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament"s campaign around the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which included the production of the highly influential "Blueprint for a Nuclear Weapon Free World. She was active in the anti-nuclear movement since 1981.
She was a local group secretary, national council and executive, regional worker in the West Midlands for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She was the National Vice-Chair for two years before being elected Chair in 1993.
She was honorary Vice-President of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at the time of her death. Bloomfield organised the campaign to stop arms trade shows being held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in 1991.
She organised and led the Atomic Mirror Pilgrimage 1996 around nuclear and sacred sites of England, Scotland and Wales. This was filmed and made into a documentary called "Sacred Fire".
She was a consultant to the Oxford Research Group.
After 1997, Bloomfield"s main work was as United Kingdom co-ordinator of the Atomic Mirror, whose goal is to create a nuclear-free world. The Atomic Mirror works with activists, artists, and indigenous peoples from nuclear sites, developing initiatives and joint activities to inspire people to take action, and abolish nuclear weapons and power. Chair of Governors of the Grange Farm Primary School, Coventry, from 1988 to 1992.
Charter 88 signatory and a Fellow of the British-American Project
Joined Green Party in 1996.
She was a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons and convened the Abolition Now Campaign Working Group of Abolition, 2000. The Atomic Mirror is a founding member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness Programme, of which Bloomfield was a spokesperson. Member of the Board of Governors of Friends School, Saffron Walden, from 2003 to 2005.