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Project Management: setting up a catering arm to support the charity, designing new systems and processes, recruiting staff, marketing and managing clients. Achieved profit within 6 months. Established the schools’ project: marketing and communicating with schools; signing up 12 primary schools in the first year and taking the positive food message to 1700 pupils. Recruitment and pastoral care for ‘How to be a Chef’ programme aimed at disenfranchised 16–25-year-old people.… Show more Project Management: setting up a catering arm to support the charity, designing new systems and processes, recruiting staff, marketing and managing clients. Achieved profit within 6 months. Established the schools’ project: marketing and communicating with schools; signing up 12 primary schools in the first year and taking the positive food message to 1700 pupils. Recruitment and pastoral care for ‘How to be a Chef’ programme aimed at disenfranchised 16–25-year-old people. Giving them a brilliant insight into the food industry and supporting them with career skills. Show less

Co-ordinating 200 volunteers to ensure the Knowle West based cookery school has support for all lessons and events. Booking workshops and events including corporate teambuilding for Osbourne Clark and school groups. Recruiting students for programmes such as How To be a chef and helping students to find work at the end of their 12 week courses. Successfully helping two students to find work at Root and Harvey Nichols restaurant. Relationship building ie, Amazon to help us to move to a new… Show more Co-ordinating 200 volunteers to ensure the Knowle West based cookery school has support for all lessons and events. Booking workshops and events including corporate teambuilding for Osbourne Clark and school groups. Recruiting students for programmes such as How To be a chef and helping students to find work at the end of their 12 week courses. Successfully helping two students to find work at Root and Harvey Nichols restaurant. Relationship building ie, Amazon to help us to move to a new cookery school.Initially communications - updating social media, scheduling tweets via tweetdeck, writing newsletters using mailchimp. Marketing to fill cookery courses. Show less

Copy writing, storytelling, campaign manager. Updating website.

Managing relationships with corporate supporters: organisations including Thali Café, Barts Ingredients and H&M Conscious Foundation.Business Development – using Karma Korma campaign to bring on board new organisations including Pataks, Tilda Rice and Triodos Bank.Copy writing and social media management - regular updates to all corporate supporters, bringing the work of the charity alive and using twitter and Facebook to promote them and their fundraising endeavours.

Writing quarterly fundraising newsletter, case studies, a weekly blog and all appeals including one read by Michael Palin on Radio 4. Managing social media and e-news via Campaign Monitor, communicating regularly across social media.Co-ordinating a re-brand of all communications including visual identity, and being rolled out across all digital and traditional communications.

Research and planning - to reach corporate decision-makers on behalf of the agency’s clients.

Co-ordinating Food for Life Partnerships Awards Ceremony, producing marketing collateral and leading the youth outreach programme.

Running a Leadership Programme for pupils in the Southwest. Creating and managing the courses in Bristol, Exeter, and Plymouth - ensuring effective funding for, and marketing of, the programmes. Then delivering the workshops in an engaging, immersive format.

Account Management in the London HQ’d corporate fundraising department, managing the Avon Cosmetics account – Breakthrough’s biggest corporate sponsor, increasing fundraising from £650k to £1.4 million.