After graduating from LSE, I absorbed myself into music and radio - inspired by cutting-edge club culture and exploring the threads between various scenes, sounds, and beliefs. This led me to found a number of projects, all glued together by a passion for amplifying engaging music and discussion. With this experience, I have also then been able to offer bespoke freelance services to other creatives & organisations in similar fields. The heartbeat of this work has always been driven by grassroots community-building and ethnography - a desire to change the world via engaging with the lived experiences and connections that form the fabric of a more cohesive society. This care for localism has often shone brightest in my work in cultural industries but in recent years, it has inevitably drawn me more and more towards engagement with questions of social innovation and sustainability. I have evolved to understand community-organising not just in terms of platforming expression, but also as something that can build the models necessary to support and connect socially-conscious groups from across society.
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Co-FounderThe Respace AllianceLondon, Gb -
Co-FounderThe Respace Alliance Jan 2023 - PresentLondon, England, United KingdomThe ReSpace Alliance is a membership network bringing together socially-minded councils, businesses, charities, community groups and individuals - united by a desire to build a better world.ReSpace Projects, a sister organisation, emerged 9 years ago, wanting to address society’s wasted resources. We are often led to believe that we exist in a time of scarcity when in actual fact, in the UK, we are surrounded by abundance - the issue is we just can’t access much of it, which leads to a plethora of social issues. Many buildings remain empty, food thrown away, and warehouses filled with excess building materials and clothes.Therefore, ReSpace Projects went about testing ways to change this, building a model that could be used to access and manage empty space that exists around us, setting up mutual aid hubs that deliver crucial community services. What developed was an award-winning organisation that empowers local communities via the use of otherwise-wasted resources - a system sharing empty buildings with communities, on a temporary basis, to provide solutions to a variety of social issues.The ReSpace Alliance is an extension of this - enabling, and then also connecting, a multitude of these respaced projects via creating a wider network of them. For the respacing model to realise its potential – and grow from strengthening communities to impacting society as a whole - we need to move beyond creating singular examples of these projects, and instead connect a number of them simultaneously.These buildings and surrounding communities can then share resources and know-how between them - reducing waste, capitalising on the space we have, creating an enterprise culture, and offering crucial space to those who need it - thus creating a greener economy and addressing structural inequalities within, and in-between, boroughs.It is designed to reduce inequality and empower communities by re-connecting empty spaces, surplus resources and local expertise. -
Co-FounderThreads Radio Jan 2019 - PresentLondon, England, United KingdomFounded an independent radio station, dedicated to connecting local communities worldwide and empowering people through music, discussion and art.Threads began in January 2019, with our original studio based above The Cause nightclub in Tottenham...and now broadcasts from London and from our family of hosts located in cities all around the world. We showcase hundreds of unique shows every month, bringing you topical discussion and music of all genres from our community of international artists and creators. For the culture.https://www.threadsradio.comhttps://www.instagram.com/threadsradio -
Co-FounderLondon Promoter Society Jan 2018 - PresentLondon, England, United KingdomThe London Promoter Society has grown into a collective of over 600 grassroots promoters, featuring legendary pioneers & newcomers from a diverse range of demographics, races, creeds, scenes and sounds. Established with an aim to unite 4 generations of event promoters for the greater good of our 'Music City'.Leading a team to host monthly meet-ups at venues across London (& online) to discuss projects, provide guidance, access to venues, industry news, new technology, policies, toolkits, best practice, wellbeing and opportunity.Consulting and curating industry panels, presentations, speakers, articles and live music for like-minded organisations including the Night Time Industries Association & the London Music Conference. -
Chess CoachSelf-Employed Sep 2016 - PresentLondon, England, United KingdomTeaching chess, both in private lessons and in schools - improving educational outcomes and social development through the world's oldest game.
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Co-FounderLoose Lips Oct 2014 - PresentA multi-faceted music platform that I've been running since 2014, dedicated to being inclusive suppliers of underground culture and musical eclecticism.Successes include:- event series in Bristol/London/Manchester at some of the city's most reputable underground music venues- an active soundcloud channel with various content formats, having now received in excess of 1.25million plays- running a stage for 3 years at Boomtown Festival- curating and releasing 25+ projects (and counting) on our record label- a broad editorial output for 5+ years, releasing over 1200 engaging articles (creative writing, event review, release reviews, premieres, interviews, niche features, community journalism)- a weekly mix series project which has been running since 18th September 2014!- radio residencies on stations across the UK. Currently on Threads (London) and Reform (Manchester). Interview-focused, inviting on guests from a plethora of different musical scenes, sounds and communities.- an evolving youtube channel with filmed live sessions from musical performers across the globe + other idiosyncratic mini-documentary series -
Head Of Sync & LicensingHopefield Music Sep 2015 - PresentLeeds, England, United Kingdomhttps://www.hopefieldmusic.comCurrently focused on sync and licensing, pitching to placement opportunities in TV, film, games and adverts. Working extensively with DISCO, building suitable playlists to pitch to musical briefs of various kinds. Over-seeing a broad cross-genre catalogue of electronic music, with >2500 tracks.In previous years, have worked in other administrative and artist-facing areas of the publishing company.- protecting the publishing rights of 20+ years worth of music signed to the record label- building an international sub-publishing network of organisations collecting in different territories- royalty collection and accounting- searching for new acquisitions; music, catalogues and artists that have publishing and sync potentialHave also supported with A/R and organisational work with 20/20 Vision Recordings (the record label side).
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Operations LeadRespace Projects Apr 2022 - Jan 2023London, England, United KingdomCoordinating operations and plans for an award-winning organisation that empowers communities via the networked use of otherwise-wasted resources - offering a low-cost, fast and sustainable armoury to help with the problems accelerated by the cost of living crisis. -
Co-Founder199Radio Apr 2016 - Dec 2018London, England, United KingdomDIY grassroots project where I first cut my teeth running a radio station.Collaborated with New River Studios to build a well-renowned broadcast project focused on localism. -
Administrative AssistantVictim Support Jun 2014 - Dec 2014London Colney, England, United KingdomAdministrative and data management work.
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