Experience

Co-op Foundation

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Communications

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  Run communications for Co-op's charity. Accountable for all PR, colleague communications, social and digital media marketing, brand and campaigns. Run communications for Co-op's charity. Accountable for all PR, colleague communications, social and digital media marketing, brand and campaigns.



West Yorkshire Combined Authority

• United Kingdom
• Political Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Communications and Marketing Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2018

  Coordinated communications and marketing around the Combined Authority's £1bn City Region Growth Deal, working with local and national media contacts as well as stakeholders across West Yorkshire and York. Also built and ran the organisation's Strengthening Partnerships Strategy, working with partners across the City Region and beyond. Coordinated communications and marketing around the Combined Authority's £1bn City Region Growth Deal, working with local and national media contacts as well as stakeholders across West Yorkshire and York. Also built and ran the organisation's Strengthening Partnerships Strategy, working with partners across the City Region and beyond.



YMCA England & Wales

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Communications Manager

  • Apr 2015 - May 2017

  Managed all internal and external communications at YMCA England, working primarily across media relations, social media and wider strategic comms. Worked closely with our Policy and Campaigns team while also supporting 116 local YMCA members and 135 retail shops to improve their media output. Managed all internal and external communications at YMCA England, working primarily across media relations, social media and wider strategic comms. Worked closely with our Policy and Campaigns team while also supporting 116 local YMCA members and 135 retail shops to improve their media output.



St Mungo's

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Communications Coordinator

  • Nov 2012 - Apr 2015

  Coordinated internal communications, publications and case studies for St Mungo's Broadway, one of the largest frontline providers of homeless services in the country. Was also responsible for marketing the charity's five social enterprises /CICs - Real Lettings, Real People, Real Systems, ReconnectUs and Homeless Healthcare. Coordinated internal communications, publications and case studies for St Mungo's Broadway, one of the largest frontline providers of homeless services in the country. Was also responsible for marketing the charity's five social enterprises /CICs - Real Lettings, Real People, Real Systems, ReconnectUs and Homeless Healthcare.



Richard House Children's Hospice

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• New Media and Communications Officer

  • Jan 2011 - Nov 2012

  Designed promotional materials, managed and developed a new website build and ran social media accounts, including Facebook and Twitter. Also led on video blogging and local and national PR. Designed promotional materials, managed and developed a new website build and ran social media accounts, including Facebook and Twitter. Also led on video blogging and local and national PR.



Surrey Herald

• Senior Multimedia Journalist

  • May 2010 - Jan 2011

  News reporter at the Surrey Herald, breaking exclusive stories on the actions of a local council, the plight of a traveling family being forced from their homes and the suicide of a local man. Also took photographs and ran my own local website, updating content up to five times a day. News reporter at the Surrey Herald, breaking exclusive stories on the actions of a local council, the plight of a traveling family being forced from their homes and the suicide of a local man. Also took photographs and ran my own local website, updating content up to five times a day.



Hull Live | Hull Daily Mail

• United Kingdom
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Features Writer

  • Apr 2006 - May 2010

  Wrote up to seven 1,500-word features a month for the newspaper's glossy sister magazines, The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Journals. Also ran my own weekly 32-page motoring magazine and contributed articles to the main entertainment pages of the newspaper as well as its leisure and property supplements. While working in supplement coordination, I led teams to produce upwards of 60 niche supplements - sometimes up to 68 pages in length. Also worked in local news, built my own website for the upmarket journal magazine and produced music and road test motoring videos. Show less