Experience

Perrett Laver

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2023 - Present



SPRINGS TENANT MANAGEMENT CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED

• United Kingdom

• Community Development Worker

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2020

  +Volunteer and trustee manager: supporting volunteers to deliver locally-led community projects and activity groups. Responsible for recruiting and interviewing volunteers, completing DBS checks and training provision. Oversee trustee responsibilities for The Charity Commission, including development of revised constitution in 2019, and ongoing safeguarding responsibilities. +Partnership working: work with local and Greater Manchester-wide organisations to deliver grant-funded initiatives and contribute to local consultation and policy design. e.g. delivery partner for Bury College ‘No Barriers’ project 2017-2019, delivery partner with Enterprising Youth for Children in Need funded youth work 2019-end. +Customer service: providing assistance to tenants of the housing co-operative with rent and house maintenance queries, and welfare support. Managing referrals for tenants and community group beneficiaries, e.g. to food bank provision. +Event & project delivery: manage weekly community groups for a range of beneficiaries, including isolated elderly, and socially-excluded children. Design and implement new recurring and one-off activities that respond to current local need or funding opportunities. +Bid writing: applications for small to medium-size grants from regional and national charities. Recent funders include the Big Lottery, Government Pocket Parks, People’s Health Trust and European Social Fund. £140,000 raised since 2017. +Key achievements: £22,000 raised for the design and build of Springs Community Garden in 2019, receiving Green Flag award 2020/21. Successfully nominated community volunteers for The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, received in June 2018. Co-produced Heritage Lottery funded ‘Springs Uncovered’ book, tracking the history of the co-operative campaign on the Spring estate. Show less



Commonplace Events

• United Kingdom
• Events Services

• Director

  • Dec 2014 - Oct 2019

  +Event delivery: delivering community-led events on board the Commonplace bus (a mobile community event space). Partnered with Greater Manchester-based organisations to take unique pop-up events to wide-ranging audiences. E.g. supper clubs, creative workshops and consultation days. +Fundraising: Commonplace secured a donated double decker bus from Stagecoach Manchester in 2016. Secured £25,000 funding from Big Lottery, We Love Manchester fund, UnLtd, SSE and O2. In December 2017 crowdfunded £5,700 for the interior conversion of the bus. +Business knowledge: managing the launch of a new brand, submission of funding applications and developing a strong network across the city’s third sector and SMEs. +School of Social Entrepreneurs: attended one year (2017-18) funded programme with SSE North West to develop social entrepreneurship skills and knowledge. Now an active alumni. Show less



The Socially Conscious Company

• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations

• Workshop Facilitator

  • Jul 2018 - Aug 2019

  +Workshop delivery: facilitate half-day social enterprise workshops as part of the National Citizen Service ‘The Challenge’ programme for 15-18 year olds. Teaching an introduction to social enterprise and facilitating ideas generation activities for groups of 45 young people. +Workshop delivery: facilitate half-day social enterprise workshops as part of the National Citizen Service ‘The Challenge’ programme for 15-18 year olds. Teaching an introduction to social enterprise and facilitating ideas generation activities for groups of 45 young people.



UnLtd

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

• Social Enterprise Supporter

  • Apr 2016 - Apr 2017

  +Project managed Big Local, Collyhurst: working with local stakeholders and partner organisations to identify local social entrepreneurs to make awards to as part of Big Local’s ‘Resilient Communities’ initiative. +Award making: managed the distribution of £17,500 of awards over 6 months to Collyhurst (north Manchester) social entrepreneurs. Oversaw expressions of interest; financial plans; interviews; preparing applicants for award panels; sat on award panels; use of CRM system. +Represent UnLtd: spoke about funding and support opportunities at conferences and away days, identified pro bono support, and identified partnership opportunities. Show less



MadLab

• United Kingdom
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Manager

  • Oct 2015 - Apr 2017

  +Reporting: quarterly evaluations on funding received from the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities, Cultural Partnerships and Community Associations Funding programme. +Fundraising: co-wrote successful £500,000 bid to the British Council to support collaboration between makerspaces in the UK and China. Findings from this research were later reworked for a public-facing report published by the British Council. +Arts+Tech accelerator (Arts Council + Innovate UK funded): supported the successful running of a pilot creative practice accelerator for artists working with digital making technology. Co-wrote final evaluation reports for the programme funders. Show less



Let's Go Creativity for Change

• Ancoats, Manchester

• Freelance Artist

  • Nov 2015 - Mar 2016

  +Project brief: responding to a year long listening project in Ancoats, Manchester, Let's Go, in association with Great Places House Association, launched Ancoats Voice Up! This project looks to explore with the Ancoats community new ways of uniting their neighbourhoods, expressing voice and leading action on important issues that matter to them. +Creative workshops: designed and delivered three creative workshops. 1. pin-hole camera making, inspired by artist Dan Dubowitz's peep-holes in Ancoats. 2 hour workshop teaching basic building of pin-hole cameras (using fast photographic paper) and instruction on taking portraits with the cameras. 2. Chronophotography with local school children, inspired by the Victorian history of the Ancoats area. Look at the early origins of the moving image and stop motion by creating spinning wheels. 3. Periscope masterclass, looking at the live-streaming app to create short documentaries of local people, by local people. The pieces produced in the workshops will be displayed in a community celebration in March 2016. Show less