Experience

Bude Climate Partnership

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

• Program Director

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Ultimate delivery and budgetary responsibility for six climate change adaptation projects to build economic, social and environmental resilience and mitigate climate change impacts across 11 urban and rural parishes in north Cornwall. Funded by a £2 million National Lottery Community Fund grant from the Climate Action Fund. Managing up to four full-time and up to three part-time employees across six projects: Sustainable Tourism Strategy; Shoreline Engagement Project; Energy Efficiency Project: Library of Things: Community Growing Project; Community Storytelling Project. Reporting to a partnership of 15 environmental, community and democratic organisations. Show less

• Project Coordinator

  • Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  Delivered 12 climate change research and community engagement projects over 18 months. Coordinated local community and environmental groups to work with local towns and parish councils to investigate the area's carbon footprint, to pilot positive community-led responses, and to support the work with community engagements activities and projects. Commissioned and managed research, pilot and engagement projects, Ultimate output: resources to support the wider Bude community; evidence and learnings to underpin an application to The National Lottery Community Fund's Climate Action Fund for a £2 million grant to deliver six community climate change projects from 2023–2028. Show less



Bude-Stratton Town Council

• Town Councillor

  • May 2019 - May 2022

  Voluntary role as town councillor for the parish of Bude-Stratton (Poughill ward). Elected in 2019. Re-elected in 2021. Resigned in 2022. Member of: Planning Committee; Environment & Climate Change Committee; Town Team. Council representative on Steering Group of Bude Coastal Community Team. Voluntary role as town councillor for the parish of Bude-Stratton (Poughill ward). Elected in 2019. Re-elected in 2021. Resigned in 2022. Member of: Planning Committee; Environment & Climate Change Committee; Town Team. Council representative on Steering Group of Bude Coastal Community Team.



Self-employed writer, author and editor

• Freelance editor, ghostwriter, author, journalist and speech-writer

  • 2004 - Aug 2020

  Freelance writer of more than a dozen ghosted biographies and travel books; author of popular science histories; journalist; speech writer, editor. Freelance writer of more than a dozen ghosted biographies and travel books; author of popular science histories; journalist; speech writer, editor.



Daily Telegraph

• Newspaper Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Food and Farming Correspondent

  • 2001 - 2004

• Technology Correspondent

  • 1995 - 2004