Allison Herbert Email & Phone Number

Bath, United Kingdom

Managing commercial projects and communications.

Working with place partnerships and organisations across the UK to support excellent place management.

Bath

Creating and leading on comms and marketing strategies for a number of regeneration projects; communicating to a diverse stakeholder audience via a wide range of tools, including print, web and social media, organising events.

South West

Inception and development of Love-Local, an online platform featuring the best designer makers and producers in the South West designed to enable small scale manufacturers to get on the web and to encourage shoppers to buy local online.The first milestone for the business was the creation of a business plan which successfully won small business start up.

Freelance consultant on a range of community, business and regeneration projects.Particular responsibilities included:marketing, event management, general project management, relationship management, digital communication, bid writing and creative collaboration.My clients included Frome Town Council, Somerset County Council, Middlewick Holiday Cottages.

Co-creator and designer of a new publication called The LIST Frome as part of a partnership working with Creative Frome.Sales and marketing PR and social media managementLead generationClient managementAccount management

Inception and development of the St Catherines Artisan Market not-for-profit company (now known as Frome Independent Market):marketing the events to traders and the public;managing relationships with local residents and traders;managing legal and regulatory requirements;creating a series of highly successful events.

Working on a wide range of regeneration and economic development projects including:co-ordination of the 'business ambassador scheme' providing a helpful liaison role between local businesses and the council; organising events - I set up the Mendip Business Exchange with council partners; creation and maintenance of the www.mendipbusiness.co.uk.

Ba, Russian, French

Msc, Place Management And Leadership

Postgraduate Diploma, Interpreting And Translation/French And Russian

A one year course to develop technical skills in written translation and spoken interpreting focussing on French and Russian. My study.

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