PROJECTS

Current clients and roles:

Slough Music Service - Arts Development Co-ordinator
Trinity College London - Arts Award Moderator
ROH Education Thurrock - Arts Award Advisor on the Youth Arts Leadership project
Tandridge Trust - Assistant Choir Leader, Bletchingley Community Choir

Here are a few examples of the kinds of projects I have worked on:

Slough Music Service (www.sloughmusicservice.co.uk)
I was the Project Co-ordinator for a partnership project with The Oval House Theatre and The Sage Gateshead called 'Seeds and Songs'.  I have also worked on other projects and events, including a Gifted and Talented programme where primary and secondary pupils worked with music leaders from 'Hatch My Ideas' and creative practitioners from '4Motion Dance Theatre'.

Creative Partnerships (www.creativejunction.org.uk)
Between 2008 - 2011, I was a Creative Agent, working on behalf of South Hill Park Arts Centre for Creative Junction.  Over that period I worked with 5 primary schools and 1 secondary school on Enquiry and Change School programmes.  Creative Junction managed the Creative Partnerships programme in the Thames Valley. 

Sing Up (www.singup.org)
I was one of the Project Leaders for Sing Up East Berkshire between October 2008 and October 2010, setting up singing programmes with schools in Slough and Windsor. 

In 2010 I was commissioned by Creative Junction to write a report on young people's attitudes to singing based on our 2 year community programme in East Berkshire.  The report can be found at http://www.creativejunction.org.uk/what-we-do/previous-projects-and-events/sing-up

OYAP (www.oyap.org.uk)
2010 - Mentor on the Young Creative Leaders Training Programme, Stepping Up

Oxford Contemporary Music (www.ocmevents.org) and OBMH NHS Trust
2008 - Mentor to individual artist and work with service users

Crowthorne Summer Arts Programme (2008 and 2009)
Funded by Bracknell Forest Borough Council Extended Services, Wokingham Extended Services and the Edgbarrow School Community Grant, I set up and managed this project for young people.

Pilgrim Hearts Trust (www.pilgrimhearts.org.uk)
Evaluation work - collating material, editing and writing up case studies on projects which Pilgrim Hearts have set up and run since 2000. 

South Hill Park Arts Centre (www.southhillpark.org.uk)
Working with South Hill Park Arts Centre on a co-production with The Wales Theatre Company of 'Macbeth Kill Bill Shakespeare'. 

Jude Simpson - stand-up poet (www.judesimpson.co.uk)
Developing contacts with arts venues and literature festivals across the UK on Jude's behalf.  I developed a marketing strategy, booked gigs and a tour of her solo show 'Growing up Games', and helped to promote the show (Pleasance Courtyard) at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007. 

The Phoenix Neighbourhood Renewal Programme (www.phoenixhighschool.org)
Working with a culturally diverse secondary school in West London, through a government funded regeneration programme. My role involved setting up and co-ordinating a range of arts projects and activities for the students. 

Artsmark (www.artscouncil.org.uk/artsmark)
In 2005 I collated Phoenix High School's successful application for Artsmark Silver to the Arts Council's Artsmark scheme.

Youth Music (www.youthmusic.org.uk)
In 2004 I co-ordinated a successful application for funding to Youth Music, and managed the resulting music technology project which ran in 3 schools in the Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

 Singing leading:

  • Singing tutor for Wokingham Youth Service (www.wokingham.gov.uk)
  • Co-leader, Phoenix High School choir
  • London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Youth Offending Team (www.lbhf.gov.uk)
  • Assistant to Choir Leader, Borough Youth Choir, Hammersmith & Fulham