Lauren Gee Email & Phone Number

Southend-on-Sea, GB

• Working in the Future Places Team, taking a systems-thinking approach to economic, social, environment and governance. HM Green Book and Magenta Book compliant business cases and evaluation, strategy development.
• Long Term Plans for Towns – working with the Burnley, Leigh and Darwen communities to develop a 10 year vision and 3 year investment plan for their towns.
• Levelling Up Fund bids (round 2) – successfully secured £350,000,000 of funding across 14 different local authorities in England,
• Greater Cambridge Cultural Infrastructure Strategy development and production, including extensive stakeholder engagement, desk-based analysis and ArcGIS mapping of existing cultural infrastructure; gap analysis.
• Volunteering Futures socio-economic impact assessment – carrying out evaluation of this Arts Council England and Sports England funded programme in Basildon, including full economic and SROI analysis and co-created.
• Liverpool Playhouse & Williamson Square Rejuvenation Feasibility – crafting a headline economic case and Theory of Change model, ensuring integration of cultural, social, and economic growth metrics in project.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Dicing With Life CIC is a community interest company (social enterprise) which uses tabletop gaming and creative activity to promote social inclusion, engagement and capacity building, working particularly with.
• promotion and marketing
• bid writing, submission and management - including successful bids to the KFC Foundation (£1.5k), Oak Foundation (£19k), Innovation Grant funding (£3.5k) and a crowdfunding project in partnership with Spacehive (£5k)
• website programming and development and content writing,
• facilitation
• business administration, budgeting and finance

London, United Kingdom

Since 2011 I have worked with a huge number of organisations and businesses, nationally and internationally, to deliver well written, detailed and excellently researched content in accordance with brief and to deadline – particularly focusing on property (development, economics and construction), modern technology, climate change, social impact.

• Strategic Lead for Social Value across LB Havering, between March 2021 and July 2022, part of the Inclusive Growth Team.Projects included:
• COVID-19 Discretionary Grants funding programme – I was responsible for creation and development of three separate successful proposals for distribution of allocated additional restrictions grant throughout the.
• 12 Estates Regeneration Programme – particularly focusing on the social value and meanwhile use elements of the regeneration of 12 different estates across Havering, beginning with Waterloo Road in Romford
• Community Hubs – working in collaboration with the Transformation team to deliver digital and physical community hubs across Havering, aimed at tackling poverty and social exclusion and promoting physical and mental.
• Mayoral Academies – preparation of projects and bid submissions for Green, Digital and Creative Mayoral Academies
• Levelling Up Fund bid preparation/submission

Havering

• Matrix working across the Development, Infrastructure and Inclusive Growth teams, between July 2015 and March 2021.Projects included:
• Project lead for development and submission of a successful c£40m bid to the Greater London Authority (GLA) for the Romford Housing Zone, including site appraisal, viability assessment, sustainability appraisal.
• Compulsory Purchase Order preparation for the Rainham Housing Zone, including viability assessment, land value uplift calculations, preparation of the Statement of Reasons, ongoing business engagement, organisation and.
• Romford Market Transformation programme – analysis and review of two prior consultations dating from 2004 onwards, leading to preparation of a multi-faceted £2.5m GLA funded social and physical market regeneration.
• Land of the Fanns – project officer for Havering as accountable body, as part of this multi-borough collaborative NLHF funded programme across East London and Essex comprising 26 individual projects across various.

Essex

Breastfeeding Counsellor in the Epping Forest district of Essex. One-to-one counselling support and leading breastfeeding antenatal sessions. Peer support volunteer at local breastfeeding cafe.

• I was the U.K. project lead for a three-year European Research and Policy project known as Powerhouse. The project aimed to collate, analyse and disseminate research and best practice in nearly-zero energy housing from.
• Acting as European Lead for the Financing Nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) workstream, in partnership with CECODHAS (the European Housing Federation), including authorising a major report on methods of housing.
• Leading study tours for UK delegates in a number of European countries, including Spain, Belgium, Austria and Germany – demonstrating Passivhaus and Nearly-Zero Energy construction, development and regeneration.
• Participation in the Housing in Cold/Continental Climates workstream as UK project lead, offering information and input from the UK perspective in relation to development of nZEB best practice.
• Dissemination of nZEB information across the UK, via National Housing Federation publications and events, and stakeholder engagement activities.

• Project lead for sustainability for large scale regeneration projects.Key projects included:
• Community sustainability planning for the Olympic Athletes Village as East Thames lead for the Triathlon partnership, including analysis and development of the Olympic Park and it’s social, physical, environmental and.
• Sustainability appraisal using the 7-part sustainable neighbourhoods model (including physical, social, environmental and economic) for all proposed new East Thames developments of over 100 units, and for some smaller.
• Community matrix – led on programming and development (in Visual Basic and SQL) of an extensive interactive database for assessment and prioritisation of interventions and spending across all housing stock and local.
• Better Neighbourhoods – delivery of a £1m social, physical and environmental regeneration budget to complement delivery of Decent Homes standard across all East Thames properties in 5 East London Boroughs – focusing on.
• Childrens’ Centres and Community Champions – integrating wider social value initiatives with delivery of Childrens’ Centre activities.

• Primarily managing a multi-tenure portfolio of 1500 homes across the London Borough of Redbridge, including private ownership, shared ownership, intermediate market rental, affordable rental and social rental.
• Development of a Tenant Management Organisation for an estate in Harlow, including all documentation and legal administration, and facilitation of tenant engagement.
• Facilitation of development and management of a number of Tenants Organisations aimed at boosting local capacity and tackling anti-social behaviour issues. This included the successful piloting of a Good Neighbour.
• Promotion and delivery of a Community Champions programme offering local residents the opportunity to build skills and capacity and obtain formal qualifications, and participate in work experience programmes.

Providing support to a team of Floating Support Officers, including design and maintenance of admin systems, and website development.

Masc Interdisciplinary Problems And Methods

Llb, Law

Activities and Societies: Member of Law Society, Games Society, Gospel Choir and Sci-Fi Society.

Diploma, Breastfeeding Counselling

Pgdip Housing, Housing