Andy Glyde Email & Phone Number

Bridgend, Gb

Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Trustee for a small charity providing local services for hearing aid users in Cambridge

Senior member of a busy and active campaigns team with responsibility for the organisation's largest campaignMain responsibilities• Lead for the Care in Crisis campaign, calling on the Government to urgently reform the social care system• Have provided support for colleagues on other campaigns, including the More Money in Your Pocket campaign, aiming to increase take up of benefits among older people.• Lead on digital and social media campaigning.• Deputising for the Campaigns Manager as required.• Supporting the Public Affairs team, monitoring relevant political activity, preparing briefings for MPs and Peers, and attending meetings with political stakeholdersMain achievements• Relaunching Care in Crisis in May 2013• Wrote a report detailing the complex environment of social care in an accessible way to mobilise grassroot support.• Organised and managed the world's first Twobby - a Twitter lobby that ran alongside a mass lobby of Parliament reaching an additional 450,000 people.

London, United Kingdom

A senior member of a successful campaigns team, with strategic responsibility for two major campaignsMain responsibilities• Delivery of the Don’t Lose the Music campaign to get music lovers to protect their hearing, including event management, stakeholder engagement and social media.• Line management responsibility for one Campaigner, implementing the Read My Lips campaign to increase number of lipreading classes.• Deputising for the Head of Campaigns and PR as required.• Acting as a spokesperson for the organisation on a range of topics for both local and national media, across print, TV and radio.Main achievements• Organised highly successful involvement at 15 music festivals across the summer with sales and engagement figures more than doubling previous years.• Planned and managed a successful world record attempt, involving over 2,000 participants and securing global media coverage.

London, United Kingdom

Lead for the Read My Lips campaignMain responsibilities• In charge of implementing the campaign on lipreading classes• Organising successful campaign events and actions, including mobilising local people to lobby their councils.Main achievements• Researched and wrote a highly influential report on the state of lipreading classes in England and Wales which has pushed lipreading up the agenda for many local authorities and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. The report was also quoted on BBC Radio 4 and in Parliament.• Successfully lobbied a number of local authorities to improve their class provision through a range of innovative tactics, including protests and PR stunts.

Elected one-year Sabbatical Officer position. Main responsibilities included overall oversight of organisation's £5.5m turnover and managing the Union's democratic structures. Also acted as Chair of the Board of Directors, Trustee and Treasurer. Other duties included training for newly elected volunteers and recruitment of trustees and staff, including senior management.Main achievements included record turnouts for Union's elections, referendum and general meeting, securing £1m additional funding from attached University at a time of University cut backs, setting up Union's first Board of Trustees and planning and running a highly successful and innovative campaign against rising bus fares.

Ba (Hons) Politics, Politics

Activities and Societies: RaW 1251am (DJ-ing weekly show and being Deputy Head of Music), Squash Club, Badminton Club, RAG Society Chair.

Management Development Programme

Selected as "high flyer" for this management development course, accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management. Topics studied.

Certificate In Professional Practice, Campaigning

Completed accredited course in campaigning strategy, tactics and evaluation