Experience

St Paul's Cathedral, London

• United Kingdom
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• OBE Organ Outreach Fellow

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  - Launched nationally acclaimed OBE music partnership programme for schools, working with 3,000 children each year in diverse inner city communities - Founded classical children's choirs in schools and churches; see www.hackneychoral.com - OBE Organ project, giving recitals in schools, managing Organ Days, and creating progression routes for young organists - Established Sing at St Paul's - choral workshops for school choirs to prepare them for recitals and services in the Cathedral - Recruitment and management of a team of staff and volunteers, and responsibility for safeguarding - Chorister recruitment for St Paul’s Cathedral Choir - Active fundraising including public funding, trusts and foundations & HNIs - Creation and management of social media campaigns - Organising international choir tours, managing PR



The Choir Church Foundation

• Consultant

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Helping local churches and schools establish children’s choirs and build new congregations around them. Choir Church has three ingredients: Choral Excellence, Eucharistic Worship, Working for Social Justice, applying the theory of community organising Helping local churches and schools establish children’s choirs and build new congregations around them. Choir Church has three ingredients: Choral Excellence, Eucharistic Worship, Working for Social Justice, applying the theory of community organising



St George In The East C Of E Church

• United Kingdom
• Religious Institutions

• Director of Music

  • Sep 2016 - Apr 2021

  - Leading musical worship, congregational singing, liturgical planning - Founding and directing Choir Church at St Paul's CE Primary School, Whitechapel - training school children to sing for services, embedding rich and varied music education in an inner-city school - Organising conferences and networks for others wishing to develop musical & spirtual development of children - Leading musical worship, congregational singing, liturgical planning - Founding and directing Choir Church at St Paul's CE Primary School, Whitechapel - training school children to sing for services, embedding rich and varied music education in an inner-city school - Organising conferences and networks for others wishing to develop musical & spirtual development of children



CENTRE FOR THEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Coordinator, SingSpire

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2014

  - Started a community music programme for churches, helping them to create: Babysong (classical music early years), musical theatre groups for primary schools, choirs for adults and for those with complex needs- Performance at events, in collaboration with social justice charities e.g. Citizens UK- Active fundraising and project management

• Manager

  • Jun 2011 - Sep 2012

  - Leading an annual internship programme for 20 University students with community organising placements in inner city churches- Office management: personnel, contracts, conferences & events