Anna Bland Email & Phone Number

I have developed Leeds Sanctuary from an idea into a values driven organisation working for the good of the people of Leeds. I manage the project and our small, passionate team. The project works to build community in the city centre through wellbeing, meditation and creative forms of activism. My role involves:- Organisational leadership- People.

Leeds, United Kingdom

I was employed to develop and grow Leeds Sanctuary as a project. This started with listening for opportunities and led to the vision we have as an organisation today. I started a number of communities and grew a wonderful team. In this period I took an idea and turned it into a thriving small organisation. My role involved:- Networking- Community.

I developed and ran community projects in North York using an asset based model of Community Development. My role included:-running a community shop front project which created a safe space where local people could share their skills and shape the project-project oversight and staff management of a project mapping the local assets and listening to local.

Community Engagement Executive for Charity Connect, an exciting new product for the Charity sector. My role involved:-strategic communication and marketing helping the product to grow to hundreds of members in a few months-networking with sector influencers-creating a list of influencers, known as champions who would support the development and growth of.

London, United Kingdom

• Posted on social media on a day-to—day basis. I worked on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+.
• The Collective undertook a rebrand, new website and created a new communications strategy while I was on the team and I fed into this.
• Edited and uploaded content onto the Collective website, we used Dupal.
• Undertook a social media research project in best practice for our audience which fed into our new communications plan.
• Write for many different audiences internal and external: I wrote blogs, assemblies, church resources for us and wrote for the Boys Brigade and Fairtrade Fortnight.
• Participated and contributed to writing a communications strategy.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Ran the social media on a day to day basis. We mainly used Instagram alongside Twitter.
• Wrote and was responsible for the Social Media Strategy.
• Regularly wrote for the magazine.
• Created partnerships with local businesses and organised the advertising.

• Worked on a self-led research project: Behind Closed Doors which was about enhancing visitor experience. This involved travelling the country, arranging visits and then writing up my findings.
• Ran the social media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.
• Wrote the Social Media Strategy which was used as an exemplar for clients.
• Wrote a variety of resources for use on a new website for external agencies to use.
• Received social media training from DigiEnable.

Leeds

• Ran the social media on a day to day basis: Twitter and Facebook.
• Edited the website and uploaded content.
• Wrote for, planned and designed the quarterly news magazine for supporters.
• Organised large fundraising events, sometimes in charge and sometimes as part of a team.
• Created a database of media contacts to be used by myself and other members of staff, bringing our media work in-house rather than with an agency.
• Held relationships with contacts in local and national religious media.

Diploma, Therapeutic Counselling

Level 3, Therapeutic Counselling

History (With Industry), 2:1

Activities and Societies: • Taught conversational English to refugees as part of STAR, a student society. • Have worked with children and.

I Achieved 4 A-Levels: A* Psychology, A* History, A Maths And B English.