Head of Programmes

• Feb 2022 - Present

Operations Manager role within a charity that directly supports over 1000 people a year. Responsible for overseeing and managing all programmes across a diverse, emotional education focused youth charity. Operational Designated Safeguarding Lead across all programmes. Direct line management responsibility for staff and project delivery teams - leading supervisions, appraisals and overseeing CPD opportunities for team members. Involved in all stages of programme management - from conception to evaluation. Leading member of staff in funding bid writing, reports and evaluation across all programmes and projects. Responsible for designing and leading comprehensive, sustainable programme and project plans in line with funding agreements and contracts as well as using insight into the direct needs of the young people the programmes are designed for. Experienced in creating and planning projects for young people who are at risk of exploitation, violence and crime, young people who have disabilities, young refugees and asylum seekers, young women and young people who are economically inactive. Responsible for attending Child Protection Conferences, Multi Agency Meetings and Core team meetings regarding children who are involved in social care & in some complex cases, working as youth advocate or lead professional for those children and young people. Responsible for feeding back annual and seasonal reports and results to the board of trustees for speculation and analysis.

Specialist Youth Programmes Coordinator

• Sep 2020 - Feb 2022

Responsible for the coordination and management of a county wide emotional education programme designed for 14 to 19 year olds who are at risk of CSE, CCE and violence. Responsible for coordination of a staff team of up to 5 members of staff and a large team of local volunteers. Representing and networking the programme across multi agency meetings as well as working as a lead professional in LAC and CiN cases. Responsible for building our roster of over 100 young people in 2021 across the East Midlands who received specialist, intensive emotional education intervention. Working to keep an up to date network of relevant teams and professionals in order to ensure that the young people who need our support the most, receive it. Responsible for compiling and writing vital funding reports.Assisting with writing funding bids. Trained as Designated Safeguarding Lead. Leading programme planning meetings. Charing weekly project meetings with staff and volunteers. Key skills -Project management, staff coordination, volunteer management, youth recruitment and engagement, effective record keeping, GDPR, Safeguarding.

Artistic Director / Co Founder

• May 2016 - Present

Manic Arts was set up by myself and my co founder in 2016 as a response to the rise is stigmatised mental health and a lack of representation for mental illness in the arts. As Artistic Director my role is to creatively lead the company and to be involved in all aspects of the work we produce and deliver. To write and collaborate on funding bids. To provide creative consultation to freelance employees of the company. To advocate for discriminated communities by programming work that is accessible for all. Take the lead on any commissioned writing, workshop planning. Co deliver creative and accessible performance workshops Deliver CPD workshops for teachers and community figures, to allow them to easily integrate culture and the arts into their work Key skills - Create, plan and deliver, project management, people management, deliver commissioned based work, bid writing, evaluation, creative leadership, collaboration, arts education, public speaking, ability to provide accessible cultural experiences

Writer of Issue-based Theatre / Playwright

• May 2015 - Present

Current writing credits :The Little Creepers, Opened with a 12 Date Tour Across the UK – Summer 2017 A one woman show written by Charlotte BellThe Little Creepers is the story of Jenny Kent, a teenage schizophrenic in the twenty first century. The show had a twelve-date tour in Summer 2017, visiting Birmingham, Manchester, Clapham (London), Kingston Upon Thames (London) and Brighton.Writing awards given for this play: Ede and Ravenscroft Excellence Award Dean’s Award – Birmingham School of ActingSocial Exchange Grant – Beatfreeks BirminghamThis show was also funded by Arts Council England. Juliet, Juliet, Juliet, Juliet, Juliet, Juliet and Some Bloke @ The Old Rep Birmingham A six person comedy devised by What About That? Theatre CompanyJuliet x 6 and Some Bloke was my first professional experience of devising alongside a six strong theatre company and the creation was a collaboration between us, The Old Rep Birmingham and Little Earthquake Theatre Company. My writing role was to turn conversation into performable script. This experience was fantastic for professional confidence building and working on a comedic, more adult piece of theatre. This taught me how to bring popular culture into devised theatre, especially in such an old, historic theatre. Cold & Tight & Scared - Confronting Rape Culture Chapbook 4 A poem written by Charlotte Bell, published by Sampson Low Ltd (2017)This piece was written in conjunction with the Confronting Rape Culture project - a non-profit organisation funded by O2 Think Big that uses creativity to discuss how normalised misogynistic and sexist behaviours provide the foundations for domestic abuse, rape and systematic oppression. Char Bell Blogger (www.char—bell.blogspot.com)A consistent flow of blog posts written by Charlotte Bell

Freelance Youth Arts Facilitator

• Jun 2017 - Sep 2019

Support Worker

• Feb 2020 - Sep 2020

Night Support Worker

• Sep 2019 - Feb 2020

Co-Creative Director & Young Artist - Emerge Festival Halesowen

• Jun 2017 - Jul 2018

Emerge Programme 2017/18 Emerge Programme 2017/18

Student experience assistant

• Sep 2014 - Jun 2017

Applied Performance (Community & Education) Student

• Sep 2014 - Jun 2017

Allenscroft Children’s Centre (2017) Working as a resident artist for three months at Allenscroft Nursery (Laura Brodie) with three to five year olds, working on dramatic development and play. mac Birmingham Six Week Placement (2016) Six weeks of working in the NextGeneration project at mac Birmingham. Worked with Beatfreeks, The Superwoman show and Spectra SEN Project. Safeside at Westside with West Midlands Fire Service (2015/2016) Four months worth of working with year five to year seven children on fire and public safety. This involved creating dramatic scenarios in the safety village for the young people to observe and participate in. Performance Credits Juliet, Juliet, Juliet, Juliet, Juliet, Juliet and Some Bloke @ The Old Rep Birmingham Devised by What About That? Theatre Company, The Sext Generation @ The Drum Birmingham Directed and Devised by Hannah Phillips The Sext Generation was an amalgamation of singing, dancing, spoken word, acting and technology within performance. This experience taught me about how the musical genre can be paired with issue based theatre. The devising process was all collaborative too which taught me how to communicate professionally and efficiently with the entire cast and director, as well as the stage management and the theatre itself. Hard Knock Life @ mac Birmingham Directed and Devised by Hannah Phillips Hard Knock Life was a children's piece of theatre, based on the hit musical Annie. The show explored the difficult topic of families and foster care and was aimed at young people between the ages of 7 and 11. This show taught me how to deliver issue based work to younger audiences, whilst keeping the relevance and importance of the issue at the forefront of the performance.

FOH / Actor

• Jun 2015 - Sep 2016