Anna Wilson Email & Phone Number

The Children's Trust is supported by over 1,400 fantastic volunteers each year. As Volunteer Development Officer I am involved in the recruitment, retention and recognition of these wonderful individuals.

Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Each year I help to recruit, train and support around 700 volunteers as they assist with our incredible Therapeutic Recreation camps for children with serious health challenges. I provide support and guidance for our wonderful volunteers throughout the year, ensuring that together we provide the best experience possible for the young people that we serve.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Various

I took a break from full-time employment in order to pursue a range of new experiences and explore different opportunities. My aim was to challenge myself in new ways and strengthen my skill set in the process.

- Managing the administration of the Stamford Senior Youth Theatre’s (SSYT) annual show, organising their week-long annual tour and in-house dates, finding transport for members, ensuring their safety whilst on tour, liaising with educational institutions to book tour venues and creating budgets for the group.- Engaging with community groups, teachers, school groups, families, individuals, artists, charitable organisations and professional companies to raise awareness about the two arts venues with the aim of encouraging involvement in arts activities and community engagement. - Marketing specific projects to the target demographic through effective publicity material. - Writing press releases, designing posters on Photoshop and creating e-mail newsletters through such tools as Mailchimp. I also help to manage the Facebook and Twitter accounts for both arts centres.- Working closely with Lincolnshire One Venues, a network of 10 arts venues committed to promoting arts in the region with a specific focus on arts activities for young people aged 12-25.- As part of this role I also act as a Box Office Assistant when required. As a key member of front line staff, I ensure visitors have a positive experience when they visit the venue, answer general and tourist information queries. I am trained in operating the Databox Ticketing System to make reservations and sell tickets for Stamford and the Guildhall Arts Centre productions. This role also involves cashing up and completing end-of-day transaction reports.

Grantham

Throughout this role I directed, produced and marketed the Guildhall Arts Centre’s youth drama productions. This included West Side Story (2012), Dr Horrible's Sing-A-Long-Blog (2012) Footloose (2013), The History Boys (2013) and The Addams Family Musical (2014) The number of young people in the cast varied from 8 to 35 young people, with participants ranging from 10 to 20 years of age. Tasks included working closely with the young people to increase their confidence and develop their skills, producing high quality productions whilst ensuring the process was engaging for members, obtaining a license for the productions, advertising auditions, casting the productions, creating and monitoring budgets, constructing cast agreements, forming a rehearsal schedule, organising rehearsal space, designing programmes and print for the productions, ensuring press coverage and other publicity is effectively achieved, sourcing and managing an MD and orchestra, arranging set design and sourcing props. All of which needed to be completed within a very tight time-scale.

Lincolnshire

My role was focused on developing the audiences of five LOV arts venues in the south of Lincolnshire: The South Holland Centre in Spalding, the Guildhall Arts Centre in Grantham, Stamford Arts Centre, The Embassy Theatre in Skegness and the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. All of these venues vary dramatically in terms of their day-to-day operations, their audiences and aims, so flexibility and the ability to adapt quickly was vital. I was involved in several projects aimed at community engagement.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

I participated in two separate placements at Newcastle’s Northern Stage theatre. (09/2009- 12/2009 & 02/2010 - 03/2010)I supported Northern Stage’s community outreach work, helping with a pilot scheme to promote easier access to theatre for elderly people and working with the Participation team to supervise members of the Young Performance Group as they developed a piece of devised work. I was able to shadow and assist with two of their own in-house productions, a non-pantomime version of Peter Pan that was the main family Christmas show, and an adaptation of the novel Apples which is aimed specifically at teenagers. My role involved creating and sustaining relationships with national and regional publications, organising press nights and reading through potential scripts that were submitted to the theatre, providing an analysis of their potential.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Literature, High 2:1 Ba Honours

Education record

4 A-Levels in History, English Literature, Theatre Studies and General Studies (All Grade A), 1 AS Level in Biology (Grade A), 10.5 GCSEs.