Founded and leads employment project providing opportunities to people from groups that are excluded from the labour market; set up and oversees Clean Slate Distribution, a deliveries and fulfilment project, and planning to launch a temp employment agency in 2009. Delivers pre-employment training and aims to support individuals setting up their own enterprises. Leadership and business modelling of the project, liaison with policy makers and funders, development of on the ground procedures and… Show more Founded and leads employment project providing opportunities to people from groups that are excluded from the labour market; set up and oversees Clean Slate Distribution, a deliveries and fulfilment project, and planning to launch a temp employment agency in 2009. Delivers pre-employment training and aims to support individuals setting up their own enterprises. Leadership and business modelling of the project, liaison with policy makers and funders, development of on the ground procedures and line management of sessional staff Show less

Freelance role supporting the advice sector, training advisers on:• 'Delivering Financial Capability Digitally': Exploring the ways clients can utilise technology, IT, mobile apps, etc, to improve how they manage their money; Training on the range of tools available, how they work and the risks/ opportunities attached to clients using them; Embedding digital capability into responses for money advice• 'Technical Financial Capability': Ensuring advisers have a solid understanding of all… Show more Freelance role supporting the advice sector, training advisers on:• 'Delivering Financial Capability Digitally': Exploring the ways clients can utilise technology, IT, mobile apps, etc, to improve how they manage their money; Training on the range of tools available, how they work and the risks/ opportunities attached to clients using them; Embedding digital capability into responses for money advice• 'Technical Financial Capability': Ensuring advisers have a solid understanding of all issues around money management for all clients (not just those with financial queries), from reading a bank statement and the importance of savings to accessing debt advice and changing habits and behaviours Show less

Founded Social Publishing Project and launched Quids in! magazine in response to frustration among financial inclusion professionals that they could not compete with loan sharks and high interest doorstep lenders. Quids in! brings professional publishing expertise to bear, borrowing tabloid techniques to engage readers and provide them with socially responsible information to help them help themselves to protect themselves against sharp practices. It reaches 150,000 social tenant households… Show more Founded Social Publishing Project and launched Quids in! magazine in response to frustration among financial inclusion professionals that they could not compete with loan sharks and high interest doorstep lenders. Quids in! brings professional publishing expertise to bear, borrowing tabloid techniques to engage readers and provide them with socially responsible information to help them help themselves to protect themselves against sharp practices. It reaches 150,000 social tenant households across the UK every quarter. A website (http://www.quidsinmagazine.com) provides further advice in the same accessible style.The Social Publishing Project has expanded to provide contract publishing services and has developed a range of money management materials for people on low incomes, such as the Say No to Payday Loans, a guide to the Bedroom Tax and a New Tenants Guide for people taking on a new home. It runs the Quids In Professional Network, with almost 2,000 subscribers across the UK, and is building on its research work with its 2013 financial resilience survey. Show less

Networking with social enterprise peers to make connections and help each other do better business. Feeds into the LEP initiative to support social enterprise across the West of England.

Starting as a volunteer journalist, the role evolved to paid staff writer and marketing officer, to company director responsible for publishing. Part of the team that grew the regional enterprise from 200 copies of The Big Issue London magazine sold from the city centre manager's office in Bath to 25,000 copies (at its peak) of a South West edition sold across the whole of the South West region by over 400 homeless people. Returned to the South West after almost three years at the helm of the… Show more Starting as a volunteer journalist, the role evolved to paid staff writer and marketing officer, to company director responsible for publishing. Part of the team that grew the regional enterprise from 200 copies of The Big Issue London magazine sold from the city centre manager's office in Bath to 25,000 copies (at its peak) of a South West edition sold across the whole of the South West region by over 400 homeless people. Returned to the South West after almost three years at the helm of the national Big Issue enterprise to implement another big change programme to respond to changed trading and social environment, fitting the business to the size of its budget while also looking at future initiatives that ultimately lay outside the organisation. Show less

Head of the magazine sold by homeless people in the UK; briefed to restructure the organisation and bring expenditure into line with income, reducing costs by 20 per cent. Utilised 10th anniversary of the movement to bring together 'franchises' from across the globe to discuss the future and renew the focus of the business and create consensus among the staff (and magazine vendors), building on brand analysis and review of social mission in a commercial context