Grant writer - Contemporary Arts Newark, Newark Book Festival, SoundLINCS, Shooting Fish Theatre 2022 onwards

Arts Council funding support 

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Arts Award Advisor - Newark Book Festival (2024)

Bronze and Explore work with NBF Young Ambassadors​ 

 

Producer - Literacy Project, Shooting Fish (Jan 17 onwards)

A literacy programme working with NEET young people in Gainsborough working with a professional script writer to develop young people’s ideas into a professional play.

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Visiting Lecturer BG University (Jan 20 onwards)

Teaching on the Drama in the Community BA Hons course

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Director and Producer - Curious Creations (Sept 2017 to Jan 2022)

Street theatre company

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Producer - Lincoln Diocese Board of Education (Nov 2018 onwards)

Fundraising and project development for an islamophobia programme of work aimed at KS2, including a TIE Tour across Lincolnshire.​​

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Project Coordinator - Looked After Children, Lincolnshire County Council (April 2014 to 2020)

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Programming arts and music workshops in Lincolnshire Children’s Homes including Arts Award and signposting to cultural product for young people working with Paradigm Arts.​

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Arts and Health Coordinator - (Jan 2016- Sept 2016) 

NHS funded programme of work supporting those with Dementia and Mental health using arts as a tool to reduce isolation and increase confidence.

 

Operations Manager – Festival 800 (2015)

Magna Carta Festival, an artistic response to the 800-year journey from signing to the current day. The festival included comedy, music, talks, sand sculpture, children’s theatre and street theatre.

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Marketing Consultant - Nottinghamshire County Council (Jan 2014- Sept 2015)

Marketing support and development work with Rural Touring promoters in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. Including the delivery of social media training and audience development support for promoters.

 

Education Consultant - Invisible Arts (Autumn 2014)

Creation of an Education pack for Marvellous Me, a mental health theatre tour aimed at KS2

 

Funding Consultant – Just Lincolnshire (June - Aug 2013)

Consultation work for Just Lincolnshire resulting in a successful Big Lottery bid.

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Project Coordinator - Our Big Real Gypsy Lives (June 2012- Feb 2013)

A heritage lottery funded programme looking at the oral history of the Traveler communities in Lincoln. I created the education pack for KS2.

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Producer - National Trust, Dark Materials event (April – Oct 2011) 

Audience development research and PR and marketing for a Bikers event at Tattershall Castle

 

Festival Co-ordinator - Lincoln beam! International Children’s Festival (Jan - July 2011)

The event management, programming and delivery of this 10 day festival.

 

Project Co-ordinator - Lincolnshire Coast Cultural Regeneration Project
(Jan – July 2009)

To develop a cultural strategy for the East Coast, and undertake an audit of current cultural provision (working with cultural solutions). 

 

Creative Agent -  Creative Partnerships, The Mighty Creatives (Nov 2008  - 2012)

To support a range of schools in Lincolnshire to increase creative learning opportunities and the development of the creative curriculum, by working with professional artists.