Diana Shaw Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Develop and write content strategy for redcross.org.uk, the main British Red Cross website.
• Work with UX, dev and content teams to support continuous improvement of web content.
• Plan and supervise content migration to a new CMS.

London, United Kingdom

• Scope, develop, write, edit and anlayse content for British Red Cross websites to support users to find vital information for emergencies.
• Cover international and UK humanitarian issues from Covid to the climate emergency.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Wrote award-winning blogs, web content and print publications for the British Red Cross.
• Covered international work, including disaster risk reduction, humanitarian aid, emergency preparedness.

London, United Kingdom

• Publishing Advisor for Touch, the magazine of the Reiki Association.
• Edited and wrote sections of a publication for Girl Hub, a collaboration between the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and the Nike Foundation, on research into girls' education in Ethiopia.
• Edited and restructured a radio training manual on producing maternal and child health programmes for BBC Media Action.

Writer and editor for Climate Asia, the world’s largest research project into people’s lived experience of climate change in Asia. Communications for the project were 100% digital. Also wrote and edited publications about communication and governance issues in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

London, United Kingdom

• Wrote, researched and supervised design of joint Leonard Cheshire Disability/United Nations book-length international development report. Used in over 55 countries in print and online.
• Wrote, coordinated design, production and distribution of annual reviews, reports, brochures, newsletters and materials on disability and international development. Used with policy makers for campaigning, donors for.
• Specified design and wrote copy for Leonard Cheshire's international website and a campaigning website by and for young people with disabilities in 22 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
• Copy edited and proofread multi-author book and academic research report on disability and development. Briefed and supervised designers and printers.

London, United Kingdom

• Copy edited, proofread and supervised design of The ONS Productivity Handbook, a multi-author book by economists and statisticians published by ONS. Worked with designers to develop graphs and tables as well as.
• Copy edited, proofread and supervised design of Focus on Families, a multi-author work by academics and ONS staff based on analysis of census data. Helped maximise its accessibility for general audiences.
• Managed creation and editing of intranet-based organisational style guide.
• Wrote copy for brochures about the national census for use with the public.

London, United Kingdom

• Books, annual reviews, websites and other publications:
• Edited a health book published by an imprint of HarperCollins. Reprinted three times and translated into six languages. Now reissued by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
• Web editor, content lead and SEO strategist for international charity site representing 15 countries. Site won Top 5% award from a search engine.
• Wrote, researched, edited and worked with designers on over 10 annual reports/reviews for international and environmental charities. One was featured in the book How to Produce an Inspiring Annual Report.
• Wrote and produced quarterly newsletters, with many used as fundraising appeals. Four were included as special features in Travel Africa magazine. Fundraising and external communications:
• Researched and wrote fundraising proposals to government and trust donors, with amounts requested ranging from £1,500 to £20 million, and reported back to donors,.

London, United Kingdom

• Wrote, researched and produced award-winning annual reports.
• Wrote, researched and produced regular quarterly newsletters that were also used as fundraising appeals. Increased income from break-even to over £30,000 per issue.
• Created cold donor acquisition appeals and wrote copy for emergency fundraising ads in national newspapers acquiring thousands of new donors.
• Managed all aspects of an integrated direct marketing programme including donor acquisition, renewals, donor development, regular giving, Gift Aid, agency management. Raised £1 million annually with a budget of.