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SWAPA allows children and young people to play as naturally as possible, try things freely, experiment and build resilience - all crucial building blocks for growth and development. It specifically offers a rare safe space for teenagers to lead their own unstructured learning in a nurturing, collaborative and fun space where they can make mistakes, learn through trial and error, take risks and build skills that will empower them to manage situations in the future. As a trustee, I bring my expertise in creative education and strategy to support the playground in sustaining itself, fundraising, policies, develop staff, new programmes, community outreach.

Offering coaching support for people on the neuro-spectrum, privately and through Access To Work. Coaching is a brilliant lens to tackle challenges big and small - by taking rare time to understand why we function the way we do, we can develop strategies that work for us. My job as a coach is to enable you to drop long embedded guilt, shame or deep seated unhelpful expectations to concentrate on your very own potential and growth.

Welcome to the serious business of play!PlaySpace is a both a consultancy and a vision. We help develop strategies, programmes while also running our own digital and offline projects. And long term? A creativity platform for children, schools and parents. Our aim is to nurture children’s natural abilities and give them the space to develop the skills they need now and in the future: creativity, collaboration, confidence, problem-solving, resilience, innovation, openness. We create content that sparks curiosity and hooks young people in with themes and content to inspire them throughout their school and home life into adulthood. We believe that by placing children and young people at the heart of their own learning experiences, they feel validated and empowered and can take a more active role and are more likely to be engaged, care about and take ownership of their education. Creativity is not only relevant to the arts, it’s present in all aspects of society. As we move towards an age of advanced technology and AI, creative thinking is becoming an essential and sought-after skill. Most education systems are based on an outdated one size fits no one model, focusing on ‘getting things right’. Learning is often divorced from experience or perceived as a chore. Meanwhile the proven value of play, freedom and creativity is under-exploited. We want to give children and young people the space and agency to explore topics freely, develop their own thinking, ideas and feel empowered. Inclusion, accessibility and diversity are at the heart of our offer, but we also take a particular interest in neurodiversity. We all look different so why do we expect our brains to be the same? We all are part of a neurospectrum, a richness to be valued and nurtured, that is often at the heart of much creativity. We believe that by putting the needs of neurodiverse children first, we will create experiences that will benefit them but also their peers.

Supporting ADHD UK develop its platform, developing content, events and strategy, while helping establish internal systems

I have been developing content, from concept to final product for the past 15 years. I approach any content work with client and audience alike in mind, and adapting tone and style accordingly. I work with clients to understand their aims to help define their content strategy with marketing in mind and advise on solutions adapted to time and budget. I understand the importance of impact, always looking for fresh meaningful insights.I am also very experienced in scoping and developing websites from concept, wireframes, sitemaps to specification documents. I am used to working closely with designers, developers and filmmakers and act as 'translator' to explain technical challenges in lay terms. At heart, I am before anything else a people person, and my strength is to nurture and bring out the best of those around me, in and out of work. ExperienceAuthor of primary art teacher toolkit for Cartoon Network's Imagination studios competition 'Be the best friend you can be'​ Author of classroom activities for Doodle4Google 2017 competition 'if I could create anything it would be...' Content strategy and development for My Moneysense from RBS group. Content authoring for BP education service on Super Scientists - primary KS1 and KS2 resourcesAuthor of articles on learning Arabic as second language for Hekayatona

My work mainly centres on capturing the essence of people and translating that into drawings - I do a lot of bespoke portraits, such as families portraits and family trees, or celebrities. I work from ordinary photos and work a composite image of my subjects. I also do cat illustration, and my cat album covers (catified versions of the Beatles, Nick Cave, Blondie, Blur, Gainsbourg, Miles David and more) were featured as part of the Meow Exhibition IV in Leuven for the MidZommer festival 2013 at the M Museum (major contemporary museum in Belgium).You can find out more at www.karuski.co.uk.

Development, authoring, creative direction and production of Wild In The Park, the first Alexandra Palace commissioned book for children and families about enjoying play and nature in parks.

Little Inventors is a creative education company - its aim is to inspire children to use their imagination to think up ingenious invention ideas, then work with artists, makers and designers to bring the most ingenious children’s ideas to life - and develop essential creativity life skills in the process!We launch challenges across the world with incredible partners (museums, brands, cultural powerhouses and celebrities) and beyond - the Canadian government and the Canadian Space Agency even sent our little inventors ideas into space!As part of the Little Inventors team, I looked after all content, including very popular educational programmes. I have written numerous STEAM school educational resources for our high-profile partners: the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Space Agency, the Canadian Commission for Unesco, Mr Men and Little Miss, Disney, Ocado, and several high profile Arts Council-funded projects. My focus was on Science, Literacy, Citizenship and Art anchored in social consciousness, especially the environment. I was at the heart of delivery for all our projects: creating and managing programmes, working with developers and designers, setting up exhibitions, events and workshops with prestigious museums and organisations in the UK and across the world, including Canada, China and the Middle East. I also delivered talks at Nesta and other partners. Our ambition is to inspire children to build confidence in their natural creativity, and equip them with the problem-solving skills that will help them to tackle whatever tomorrow brings. Next stop - inventing on the curriculum!

Lead the delivery of multiple educational projects in a range of media from concept development to market for major accounts (GSK, RBS, Morrisons, Google)Drive clients’ overall strategy with understanding of their businessInform marketing strategy and planning across campaigns and social media platforms Line manage and motivate team to meet business demands and develop potential responsible for business development within account and building strong relationships with existing clients with sizeable trackable income generation

Running major accounts such as RBS’s MoneySense for Schools, Ulster Bank and BT.Translating client briefs into creative solutions, creating budgets and schedulesAuthoring development documents: briefs, wireframes, storyboards, co-writing content, curriculum mapping, user-testingManaging web and flash builds as well as print projectsSelecting and managing authors, creatives, developers and other providers Contributing to pitch proposals, brainstorms and strategy meetingsTroubleshooting difficult projects, supporting junior staffWriting award applications and managing entries on behalf of clients.

Managed projects for BBC, Pearson and Penguin, from client liaison and account management to delivering projects from brief to completionDevised project plans, specs, storyboards, user journeys and schedulesDeveloped editorial and content sections to specificationLed project teams, assigning tasks and checking quality of editorial and creative deliverablesJoined sales team for pitches, coordinating process, brainstorms, writing proposals

Working on KS3 music for BBC Jam

Working for CBBC coordinating staff recruitment, training and other bits

this project was funded by Nesta and developed a music and science educational online game for primary schools. Using groundbreaking technology and enabling multi usage in the classroom, this still stands as a best practice example in e-learning and has not been bettered. Sadly the website was never launched due to end of funding to maintain its commercial viability.

Internet research for new sites to invite to join AdKnowledge advertising online databaseSent campaign instructions to sites and helped them to install HTML bannersFollowed up on campaigns and produced status reports.

Supervised and trained Product Team and temporary staffProcessed incoming applications, handled customer care queriesAccount managed French speaking clients (Airbus, Conextel, Interoute)Creation and maintenance of new databases, systems and files, organised archives.