Creative young people are the most likely group to start up a business straight from education. They are often natural entrepreneurs: creative, innovative and visionary with immediately transferrable skills that lend themselves to self-employment. Over 200 young people have been involved in the monthly markets and evaluations indicate that those involved are developing new ideas, collaborating with people and getting commissions and jobs.(Continuous) Hired by Future Foundry to help secure Arts council and RSA funding for the project.Hired as an artist to run Workshops for Young makers.Hired as a curator to curate an exhibition showcasing the young makers.Hired as an performance artist for market days, creating murals for the public.Hired as a Graphic Designer to design posters, flyers and general promotion for the market events.

Strange Cargo Arts – Designed and Spray Painted the Canterbury Giant for The Portrait of a nation Project 2007Strange Cargo Arts – Hired as a freelance artist to run workshops for single dads and their children in Folkestone (No Mums allowed Project) – 2011Strange Cargo Arts – I’m employed every year by strange cargo as a freelance artist to design and build carnival costumes for their annual ‘Charivari Carnival’. (The months of June and July since 2008 till present)Strange Cargo Arts – Secondary School photography workshop at the Harvey Grammar School for boys. Recreating and modernizing scenes for Hogarth paintings with the students. – 2012Hired as an artist to work on the Cheriton Light Festival. Building props and installing large electrical artworks for the public in Cheriton high street – February 2014Strange Cargo have hired me since the age of 17 as an artist to work on various different community based art projects.

Community Arts Centre comprising: two gallery spaces; meeting rooms; arts workshop and studio spaces currently occupied by 14 creative practitioners. The space is provided by Canterbury City Council and is a non-profit self-financing community venue.Volunteered/ gave a helping hand in the decoration of the building before openingRan childrens workshops

Worked as a Junior Graphic Designer for Brambler LTD - A bussiness on 'Not on the high street'.www.brambler.com

Leading Guide for the Folkestone Triennial. Speaking to the public and giving them a guided tour of all the art works in the Triennial.

http://futurefoundry.org.uk/?page_id=2105Hired by Lisa Oulton to work with those involved in the project.Forging Futures was our first ever Design and Retail Course for unemployed young people, it took place in Thanet in April 2014. In collaboration with the retail department of Turner Contemporary, 10 young people took part in an innovative project to research and design hand made products for the shop.