Richard Stokoe Email & Phone Number

Marazion, Gb

Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Trustee and Board Member for Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Cornwall Wildlife Trust - one of 46 Wildlife Trusts working across the UK - believes in a wilder future for Cornwall, where our wildlife and wild places are cherished for all to enjoy. With the support of our members, we implement projects on land and at sea, conducting campaigns and managing wild spaces to ensure nature in Cornwall thrives for future generations.

Chaves, Vila Real, Portugal

Cycle guide for the company Pedal Nation including for the N2 route from the north to south of Portugal. Also scoping and sourcing new routes for future potential trips to be put on by the company.

Marazion, England, United Kingdom

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Leading a team of six with a £450k budget on all facets of communications to promote, protect and defend the reputation of the London Assembly and hold the Mayor of London to account. Working with the London Assembly scrutiny team to devise, develop, produce and implement robust investigations into both how well the Mayor of London has been performing in his role and issues that matter to Londoners.

Trefforest

Prepared new material and delivered new Masters level modules at the University of South Wales on:- Planning for disasters and civil contingencies - Critical reflection on learning in the workplace (Disaster preparation and response)- Strategic planning and decision making- Strategic leadership- Strategic leadership in health and social care- Disaster communication- Public Health.

Work From Home

Treforest, South Wales - But Still Living In London.

FINAL RESULT - DISTINCTION• Dissertation gaining 81% which examined different behavioural change psychological techniques using differing targeted communication methods to prevent people dying in tornadoes. Skills learnt and developed to have cross-cutting applications in disaster prevention, crisis management, staff motivation, communications and leadership.• Multi-disciplinary modules including Professional Development and Practice, Principle and Concepts and Personal Preparedness for Disasters; Management of Environmental Hazards, Work-based Learning and ArcGIS.• Wide-ranging skills taught and demonstrated include field, table-top and office based management and leadership of military and non-military personnel, presentations, writing structured reports and academic essays, journal articles and self-reflective analysis, ICT based cartography, survival techniques and lab work. • Field trips to Finland to learn leadership and survival skills, Italy to examine volcanic eruption disaster risk reduction and America to undertake tornado assessment dissertation field work.

Wembley

• Led a team of 14 while undertaking a review and restructure of the communications team for the local authority. Reduced costs whilst increasing productivity and improving staffing performance.• Managed the departure of underperforming staff, recruited new postholders and improved the authority’s reputation with key stakeholders by the end of the contract.• Advised Corporate Management Team members on significant council issues ranging from child protection cases to website design; social media engagement to council staffing cutbacks. • Undertook measurably successful cross platform campaigns on recycling, parking, adoption and fostering, diabetes, teeth, sport participation, library and event registrations, staff recruitment and benefit changes.• Worked with councillors from all three main parties, officers and stakeholders to ensure the council and the 2,500 staff did not break impartiality law in the 2014 local elections whilst increasing voter registration and turnout.

Wembley

- Responsible for all communication related activity for the London Borough of Brent.- Implement a significant strategic restructure of the communication functions.- Lead and manage a number of teams which include ten PR professionals of different disciplines.- Delivering and implementing a full social media strategy.

London, United Kingdom

Unpaid digital and social media adviser to the women's health charity Wellbeing of Women with an objective to deliver, over the coming twelve months, the most cutting edge digital platform of any small charity in Britain.

London, United Kingdom

- Led and managed a 28 strong communication department and £2.2m budget at the third largest fire brigade in the world. Responsible for marketing, social media, events, public affairs, design, creative, web, press, internal communications, fundraising, complaints and a museum. - Reduced departmental spend by 17% in two years while increasing productivity, innovation and creativity, which led to winning seven marketing, PR and social media awards in two years. - Developed a communication and marketing strategy that within 18 months led to the London Fire Brigade having the largest social media presence of any local or regional public sector organisation in the UK and the largest reach of any UK business through its now 208,000 Twitter followers and 101,000 Facebook friends. - Developed marketing, PR and communication campaigns that have led to sell-out international events, reductions in fires and a 50% increase in visitors to the museum.- Responsible for the communications strategy for all fire services in the UK for both public relations and crisis management for the London Olympics 2012.- Responsible for the communications for the largest fire strikes since 2003 in the UK.- Regular speaker at social media and crisis communication conferences. Key note speaker at conferences including for Corporate Comms Magazine, Capita, Social Media Academy, LG Comms, National Institute for Health Research and BAPCO.

- Line managed six media officers and dealing with high profile proactive and reactive enquiries from national and specialist print, e-media and broadcast media. - Won the PR Week Public Sector Team of the Year award 2008. - Created and implemented marketing, media and public affairs campaigns on issues affecting local government in conjunction with member councils, the three main political parties and relevant stakeholders. - Wrote and delivered the media team strategy for the organisation. Crisis managed national front page stories which included local government strikes, teacher strikes, Baby P, councils losing £1billion in Icelandic banks, councils running out of grit during the worst snow in 18 years, council Chief Executives ‘fat cat’ pay and exposés of councillors. - Initiated proactive opportunities that delivered widespread positive coverage of local government, the LGA and the work of member councils in a diverse range of national media. Examples included the ‘LGA banned word jargon list’, promoted the ‘Manilow Method’ to combat anti-social behaviour, real nappy campaigns and bringing back British Bulldog to reduce obesity. - Appeared regularly on local, national and international TV and radio programmes including Radio 5 live and the One Show.- Included in the PR Week Power Book 2008.

London Assembly

- Led the external marketing, PR and communication strategies and media campaigns for Liberal Democrat London Assembly Members. - Developed extensive links with local, national, international and specialist broadcast and print media to obtain maximum positive PR for the five Assembly Members.

- Led the press and marketing for the London Mayoral campaign 2004, the European elections and local London elections which delivered the best election result in Liberal Democrat history. - Liaised with local, national, international and specialist broadcast and print media to obtain maximum positive coverage for the campaign. - Produced creative marketing to reach target audiences. Line managed day-to-day work of a team of three.

Ran her by-election media campaign that led to one of the largest post war swings in voting intentions for any candidate.

- Undertook detailed research; media responses; policy development; conference marketing and organisation and article, report, speech and brief writing on issues affecting children and older people. - Recruited and trained interns and volunteers and managed Paul Burstow MP’s Westminster office. Liaised with the Liberal Democrat Health Team, Work & Pensions Team, Press Office, Policy Unit, Working Groups, Lords and other Members of Parliament.

Undergraduate Module, Citizen Journalism, Pass

Activities and Societies: Podcasting, audio visual, data imagery journalism, geo-spacial journalism.

Master’S Degree, Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management, Distinction

Politics, British And European, 2:2

Education record