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Working with local communities, social organisations and creative practitioners to enable meaningful social change through research and creative practice.

Project managing strategic comms and engagement across the organisation and with key partners and funded projects.

Supporting the management of a £100m Investment Fund across the North of Tyne.

Design and deliver first of its kind UK-wide study into the long-term impact of Sea Cadets of people's lives long after their time as a cadet.

Design and deliver first of its kind UK-wide study into the long-term impact of Sea Cadets of people's lives long after their time as a cadet.

Supporting design and delivery of regional youth engagement initiatives including youth led development of major strategic planning of ongoing youth provision. Create and implement an organisation wide Quality Management System and successfully pass multiple audits. Deliver programme level evaluation.

Design and delivery of Enough! a Scotland wide social justice initiative and national funding programme focused on alternative ways of economic organising.

Conducting qualitative research and analysis for the Design School at Northumbria focusing on social design, service design, storytelling and embedded design in the voluntary sector. This included contributions to conferences, journal articles and book proposals.

Creative social action project with local community engagement and participation exploring the future hopes for the village to inform the ongoing work of the local development trust.

Facilitating two regional core groups, administering a small grants fund supporting social action projects and socially engaged artistic projects. Mentoring new projects, coordinating networking events and developing ongoing strategy.

Selected for a year long fellowship to progress work around social change in local communities through creativity and meaningful conversations.

Delivering training to promote healthy eating and cookery skills to young people, families, teachers and youth workers across the UK.

Management of the Byker Garden community project including volunteer coordination, site management, community engagement, design and delivery of multi-agency holiday events programmes, collaborative/partnership working, academic placements, artist in residence schemes.

Co-designing projects with young people across the North East of England focusing on arts, culture, health and wellbeing. Including mayor cultural programme of activity linked to London 2012 supporting young people to commission over £1.3million to support creative projects and strategically influence cultural policy.

Recruitment and management of a team of 50 volunteers.