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London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for PR, policy, research and public affairs for the world's largest professional PR body.

London, England, United Kingdom

Strategic lead for public affairs activities across the UK nations, leading on influencing legislation and policy on health, housing, social care, work and pre-and post-registration education and research in occupational therapy

London, United Kingdom

Policy and advocacy development for independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote an informed debate on alcohol's impact on society. Strengthening collaborative working within Alcohol Health Alliance and Alcohol and Families Alliance, the two leading coalitions of public health experts and practitioners.

Organisation's lead for the successful Every Child a Lifesaver campaign and other sector partnerships across education and healthLed successful campaign for change to Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism ActPolicy development and research lead on topics from first aid for SMEs, defibrillators and provision in nurseries. Expert speaker at conferences/events in ParliamentCreated bespoke campaign channels for St John Ambulance that built on the charity's strengths as a major volunteering membership organisationSpeechwriting/opinion pieces for Chair of Trustees and Chief Executive

Content governance lead and adoption lead for a new intranet for 36,000 peopleIntroduced innovative internal communications channelsResponsible for brand and communications functionLeadership communications including counsel and speechwriting for C-suite and Board members

Laid the foundations for the charity’s multi-award-winning repositioningResponsible for rebranding programme based on research findings, that brought the charity under a single identity for the first time and changing perceptions of an iconic national charitySecured £1M of media at no cost to the charityLed European partner organisations' relationship for EU advocacy through joint Brussels officeResponsibility for brand and communications function, and media relations

Successfully lobbied Board of Trustees to introduce vision, mission and values statements and also introduced the charity’s first external communications strategyIntroduced hub-and-spoke national/county PR operation and refreshed all corporate messagingLaunched the first podcast on first aid techniques

Commercial project manager for the eighth edition of the First Aid Manual, the official publication of first aid protocols, on behalf of St John Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St Andrew’s First AidRan a busy creative team delivering campaigns and design, writing and publishing services on behalf of internal stakeholders across the charity, some of which I delivered personally including key corporate publications such as the Annual Report and Accounts/Annual Review

London, United Kingdom

Brand and communications consultancy for award-winning agency. I sharpened their collateral, wrote think pieces for the agency's website and also developed brand and tone of voice guidelines for clients.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Marketing and fundraising for an international grant-making charity

Mba, Business Administration

Modules undertaken: Accounting and Financial Management, Economics of the Business Environment, Human Resources Management, Innovation.

Bsc (Hons), Economics And Politics

Activities and Societies: Elected to the student union governing council