Experience

NTS LIVE LTD (NTS RADIO)

• Director of Funded Programmes

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  Responsible for NTS's new status as an Arts Council NPO (National Portfolio Orgnisation) and additional publicly funded projects. Responsible for NTS's new status as an Arts Council NPO (National Portfolio Orgnisation) and additional publicly funded projects.



Independent

• Uganda
• International Trade and Development

• Fundraising Consultant

  • Apr 2009 - Present

  Independent fundraising and projects consultant working for various clients in the arts and music sectors. Offering advice on developing fundable projects and providing practical support with securing and managing public funding. Secured grant funding up to £280,000 for clients including NTS Live, Afropunk London, NVS Music, Balamii, and independent artists Scarlett Crawford, Charlie Phillips and Anna Farley. Independent fundraising and projects consultant working for various clients in the arts and music sectors. Offering advice on developing fundable projects and providing practical support with securing and managing public funding. Secured grant funding up to £280,000 for clients including NTS Live, Afropunk London, NVS Music, Balamii, and independent artists Scarlett Crawford, Charlie Phillips and Anna Farley.



Photofusion

• Photography
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Programmes and Funding Manager

  • Jan 2011 - Jul 2018

  Coordinating the community outreach arm of a long-standing photography facility. Simultaneously overseeing all major fundraising projects including the successful application to join the Arts Councils's NPO programme (2017), a £90,000 multi-year Children In Need project, various Local Authority funded programmes and a successful Crowdfunding Campaign securing £54,000. Responsible for partnerships and development work, delivering elements of the London Creative Network's ERDF (EU) funded activity. Delivering workshops and training sessions on funding and project management. Arts Award and qualification delivery and managing the delivering of an engaging and award-winning outreach department. Notable projects include: Healthy Relationships Project - working with groups of young offenders in partnership with Lambeth Youth Offending Service, this programme uses photography, film and applied theatre to support young people to discuss, explore and develop healthy relationships in their lives. This project was funded by Children In Need. Autography (2017). Supporting adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions to take part in creative endeavours. In this project I mentored project leader, Anna Farley and supported her to deliver the programme in the face of barriers presented by her own autism. I secured a £9,000 grant from Awards for All (Lottery) to pilot this project. British Black Panther project (2012), funded by Heritage Lottery Fund. This project led to the publication of the British Black Panther book, a 30 minute documentary, an oral history archive and a hugely popular exhibition at Photofusion Gallery in Brixton. Organised Youth, management and support of a youth-led initiative: Organised Youth focus on photography, curation, oral history interviews and story gathering for future generations. Various schools projects. Cross-curricular projects with particular focus on photographic work that supports literacy development. Show less



How Great Thou Art, Charlie Phillips

• Producer

  • 2014 - 2015

  Producer of Charlie Phillip's exhibition of photographs of Afro-Caribbean funerals. The exhibition, and accompanying book (self-published by King Otchere Productions), was launched at Photofusion in November 2014. The project is supported by funding that I secured from Arts Council England and sponsorship from Wray and Nephews. Funds for the book where sourced through crowd funding on Kickstarter which I managed. Producer of Charlie Phillip's exhibition of photographs of Afro-Caribbean funerals. The exhibition, and accompanying book (self-published by King Otchere Productions), was launched at Photofusion in November 2014. The project is supported by funding that I secured from Arts Council England and sponsorship from Wray and Nephews. Funds for the book where sourced through crowd funding on Kickstarter which I managed.


National Foundation for Youth Music
• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• Grants Assessor

  • May 2010 - Jun 2014


Small Green Shoots

• United Kingdom
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager and creative bid writer

  • Oct 2011 - Jul 2013

  Fundraising and project development for music and arts-focussed projects. Arts Award advisor. Fundraising and project development for music and arts-focussed projects. Arts Award advisor.


Rinse FM
• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Development Consultant

  • Jul 2010 - May 2011

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• Paper & Forest Products
• Project Officer

  • Apr 2010 - Apr 2011
• Open Programmes Assistant

  • Oct 2007 - Mar 2010