I am working as a freelance trainer and event manager. I have written and run training for local charities and Children's Centres on: Volunteer Management and Supervision, Safeguarding Children, Personal Safety, Communication skills. I also run bespoke training covering such subjects as Assertiveness, Stress Management and Relaxation, Public Speaking.Recent training assignments include training volunteers for a Greenbelt Festival, and working with The Methodist Church to provide Public Speaking and Presentation Skills to their Youth President candidates.I work for festivals and events, working on site, Stage Managing, managing Caterers and Traders, running Production help desks. I have worked for Lechlade Festival, Wychwood Festival and Greenbelt Festival.I also work as a facilitator for team building days, for trustees boards, charities etc. I am happy to meet with you and discuss your requirements.I currently work for Kate Cairns Associates as a National trainer.

Supporting Links delivers its own Parenting Programmes and Workshops for Herts County Council to parents and schools across the county and beyond. I currently co-facilitate the Talking Families programme, attended by parents of children aged 0-11.

I am a freelance trainer with Kate Cairns Associates, www.katecairns.com. I deliver 'Five to Thrive' (the effect of positive parenting on healthy brain development) Emotion Coaching, and Trauma Informed Practice to professionals working with families and children. Five to Thrive describes a sequence of relational activities that build healthy brains in young children, and maintain healthy brain function throughout life. It offers a bridge between professional understanding of neuroscience and everyday experience, delivering key messages from neuroscience research into early intervention and life-long wellbeing.

I work with the Wychwood Festival Production and mange the traders and caterers on site. Together with my team, we meet and greet each trader as they arrive on site, and ensure they are sited in the correct space, taking into account space booked, site conditions, and their business. I ensure health and safety paperwork is in order, fees paid, and work all weekend with all caterers, traders, festival production, security, health and safety, to ensure the vet runs as smoothly as possible. Occasionally this means managing conflict, and if necessary ( but rarely) eviction from site.

I ran weekly interactive storytelling/music sessions in Waterstones, St Albans. The session caters for under fives and their carers, where I read stories from the wonderful books instore, play the guitar and ukelele and together we sing songs and nursery rhymes. I involve all the children in various ways, and take a bag of musical instruments so everyone can play, sing and make a wonderful noise! I also run special sessions for school holidays or World book Day, involving older children, using dressing up, story cubes, activities, to encourage a love of creativity, stories, music and singing.

I co-manage a small team at the Festival and we run the Front Desk. We support Greenbelt staff, the production company, and festival operations team by providing an information and help desk, to deal with problems and enquiries from those building and putting on the festival. We act as a screening process, helping when we can, and passing on any queries to the appropriate people. We provide this support in the lead up to the festival, during build week, and though the festival, logging any issues, taking responsibility for 200 radios used by festival personnel. The Front Desk team needs to be calm under stress, providing information, help and support to enable the festival to run smoothly.

I worked as a freelance Coordinator for the Methodist Church 3Generate Youth weekend. This involved contacting parents and careers of those young people with additional needs, before the event, to ensure that we met their needs during the weekend, to enable inclusion and a positive experience. The informations captured enabled us to organise an Additional Needs team to be on hand all weekend to support those young people who needed it.

I was a volunteer Event Manager for this festival, liaising with the agents, speakers and authors, the venues and ensuring the events were well planned. I attended each event and ensured they ran smoothly and to time.

I worked as a dramatherapist and play therapist with parents and children in the family centre setting. I worked with groups and individuals, and set up a programme of Parenting Programmes within the centre and in the community, training other practitioners and providing supervision for their work.