Working in social enterprise, tackling poverty, social exclusion, unemployment and homelessness, since 1993.After 15 years at The Big Issue, ultimately at Director level, founded Clean Slate Training & Employment CIC. Recently expanded its brief from tackling worklessness to helping all people on low incomes to become better off by re-organising how they manage their money, finding work (or better work), and getting online. This enabled us to bring the money skills project, Quids in!, in-house to create an information and support service ranging from a magazine, guides and email service through to one-to-one support, workshops and a phone-based/ online service that came into its own during the pandemic. Recent success has drawn on years of experience building relationships with social housing providers, local authorities and government departments, support agencies and funders.Specialties: Business modelling and development of social enterprise, ethical business and corporate social responsibility; drawing together cohesive plans that accommodate commercial necessity and social goals. Specialist in engagement of people from groups mainstream services find difficult to reach, innovating new programmes to tackle all forms exclusion but especially financial and digital exclusion, and worklessness.
Listed skills include Training, Policy, Nonprofits, Stakeholder Engagement, and 26 others.