Lucy Walker Email & Phone Number

Torpoint, England, United Kingdom

Cornwall

Currently work as a free-lance event and marketing co-ordinator for festivals, events and filming, mainly in Cornwall. Projects include Port Eliot Festival, the Great Estate, Sky One, Bandit TV.

Cornwall

St Germans, Saltash, Cornwall

• Design and implement the Port Eliot Estate events programme to run alongside the annual Port Eliot Festival. Involves developing ideas and schemes with professional companies and ensuring that all events are carried out to an exceptionally high level.• Act as Front of House manager for all guests staying at Port Eliot House, co-ordinating house-keepers, cooks and other members of staff to offer the best customer service and experience for clients staying in a unique stately home.• Design the Port Eliot Wedding packages and brochure and act as the in-house co-ordinator for all weddings at Port Eliot. Handle all administrative duties including client contracts, invoices and payment schedules. • Act as Marketing Manager for the bespoke events, weddings and house open season; including editing and updating the estate website, engaging with all main social media platforms and managing general marketing tasks such as strategy and planning, copywriting, press releases, photoshoots etc.• Act as a Port Eliot Festival Co-ordinator – support the programming of artists, negotiate contracts and liaise with performers about invoices, tech specs, riders, itineraries etc. Work with programmers and designers in the production of the printed festival programme.• Act as location work networker, involving detailed on the ground logistics and organization during all filming and photoshoots at the estate.

• Managed all wedding client contacts for new enquiries, amendments and final details. Ensured full understanding and management of wedding client requirements. • Acted as assistant Front of House manager for wedding clients, overseeing all details of their wedding day from start to finish.• Pro-actively identified customer needs and provide solutions to match them and effectively communicated with clients throughout the wedding booking process. • Marketing of an exclusive-use wedding venue - website development, monitoring and control, PR, Supplier and agency liaison and management. Marketing planning and strategy identification. Brand and profile awareness-raising. Introduced effective social media tools and devised a digital marketing strategy. SEO, Google Adwords campaign management. • Responsible for bookkeeping and accounts for Lantallack

• Assisting the Curator and Education and Outreach Curator in realising individual projects and exhibitions through research; work with artists; guest curators and external institutions. • Assisting in the development of regional, national and international collaborative projects and relationships with external organisations, galleries, institutes and individuals, including artists and curators. • Offering first point of contact for enquiries from artists and the general public regarding the programme. Assisting in formulating information for funding proposals.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

• Providing support to the Front of House Manager, assisting in the day-to-day Front of House service of a busy arts centre which housed a restaurant, cinema and exhibition spaces.• Assisting the manager with a team of front of house staff, which included scheduling, training, and general supervision. Oversaw that all opening and closing duties of the business were completed correctly and that cleanliness and maintenance were maintained. Responsible for reconciling tills at end of shift. Provided excellent customer service to guests and handled any complaints politely.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

• Assisting the Education and Special Projects Manager at TR2, Plymouth. Worked on a successful funding bid to the Wellcome Trust (£250k) to make TRP the first Theatre of Science in Britain. This involved researching; liaising with scientists, universities, schools, theatre writers and practitioners; and supporting the PM in planning, meetings and public consultations. • Solely responsible for a number of evaluation projects, involving compiling questionnaires, collecting and collating data and presenting a final report to funders. I attended high-profile meetings where I forged new contacts and promoted the interests of the organisation.

Ba (Hons), Drama, Applied Theatre And Education, First Class

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Genetics

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Genetics

A Levels In Biology, Chemistry, Maths

Activities and Societies: Debating Society, Ten Tors, Netball, Drama Society

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Genetics