I am an experienced Access Support Worker for DYCP applications, funded by ACE.

I consult on setting up artist and freelance networks, deliver talks on supporting freelancers - and by extension the creative industry - provide both project and individual mentoring.

I can help organisations understand the strategic and artistic advantages of integrating freelance practitioners into the fabric of their organisation, and how to realistically support the creative workforce.

During the pandemic I was a member of the Freelance Taskforce, and then a board member on the Advisory Board for Creative Freelancers: Shaping London’s Recovery. I supported freelancers both outside of buildings, and in conversation with senior management teams, and managed and curated the East London Freelancers Network, eventually advising on Stratford East’s Royalty Scheme.

Alongside mentoring and coaching for creative practitioners I have provided numerous 1 to 1 advisory sessions through the East London Freelancers’ Network. Camden People’s Theatre, and my own networks.

I have supported many artists with their applications (funded by Arts Council England). I can help you:

-Clarify, order and edit your thoughts,

-Work out a coherent narrative for your application,

-Keep you on track with instructions, deadlines and support throughout the process,

-Support you with creating your timeline, budget and portfolio,

-Input, or help you to input, the application into Grantium.

I can help your organisation - large or small - develop a narrative, write or refresh artistic policies (as I did recently for Studio 3 Arts and Company of Others), form or update your mission and vision, articulate your values and help you dig deep into what you are doing and why you are doing it.

I have contributed to NPO bids, business plans, helped to re-shape and articulate ambitions, written new organisational policies and steered and written up new areas of artistic strategic planning.

I write reports on whole organisational activity or project reports. I can focus on informative writing for funders, or helping your organisation to move forwards in a new or more focussed direction.

I like wrangling with ethical and artistic questions, words and ideas. I have provided in-depth year-long evaluations of specific programmes (OvalHouse Truth About Youth), pandemic activity reports and evaluations (Company of Others, Studio 3 Arts), and deep dives into policy and potential (Crafts Council consultancy on ‘participation and social justice’). I specialise in writing in your organisational style and ensuring that the words I use fit the aesthetics of the context I am writing about. In my writing for your organisation I combine both strategy and artistry, underpinned by ethics.

Book me to talk on your panel of present at your conference, meeting or event. Recent bookings have been presenting at Collaboration, Place, Change Leadership Programme and taking part on a panel for People Make it Work as part of Freelance Futures.

Topics can include: collaborative creative practice, ethics, community and participatory work, artist and freelancer support, how to build networks, how to create a coaching and supportive environment in the workplace, radical action for systemic change.

I run creative, interactive away days for companies (such as Islington Play Association) looking to consolidate and stretch their thinking, get to know each other better, dream their way into a better reality, and ensure that they are ethics and values driven. My facilitation style is warm and informal whilst safely holding space, thus enabling conversation and thinking in a relaxed and discursive environment.