Arts and Research Management

    • Lectures and Talks on creative cities, urban regeneration and affordable housing

    • Socially engaged arts workshops with mosaic

    • production and project management

    • artistic direction and collaboration with artists and their agents

    • fundraising for art projects and planning permissions

    • Research project design

    • Evaluation for arts funding purposes underpinned by academic research methods

    • Conference development

I am passionate about working at the intersection between the arts and urban development, as these two areas cross-fertilise each other in ways that offer new and evolving experiences of space and social interaction.

My research and development projects have followed this path of investigation and have contributed to new encounters in both theoretical discourse and actual spaces and places.

Charity advisory

    • building and restructuring teams

    • resourcing finance and HR capacity as a micro-charity

    • building open source/low-cost systems for managing events, communications, sales and donations

    • capital developments, planning and liaising with councils

    • working effectively with boards of trustees and non-hierarchical work streams

    • writing and reviewing charity articles of association

    • policy review including community codes of conduct and safeguarding policies

    • identifying when and what legal advice is needed, and where to find it pro bono

    • find bespoke solutions for charity leaders and trustees, and act as an external advisor

    • how to develop organisations that provide open and tolerant spaces

Setting up your activity and mission as a charitable cause has many benefits, including:

  • being able to raise funds from many trusts and foundations, local and national authorities, awarding bodies and donations

  • providing a robust framework for engaging volunteers in co-delivering your outcomes

  • having the support and expertise of a board of trustees and access to pro bono legal advice services, amongst other benefits such as training programmes and invites to special events

I have been on the journey myself, taking organisations through transformational change towards becoming charities (including CICs and community benefit societies).

I want others who start up charities and charity leaders to avoid mistakes that cost time, money and energy. There is a lot of ‘how to’ advice out there on running charities, however, each cause and business model is unique as are your communities and values.

I help organisations steer through change and develop their goals, by using my practical skills and experience of the sector to deliver actions and outcomes.