I know how difficult it is for business owners and founders to build powerful brands while wearing a million other hats. That's why I work with start-ups and small businesses to offer all-round creative and marketing support - from comms and branding, to graphic design and copywriting, to CX and CRM strategies. My job is to help growing businesses up their game. In need of some brand and marketing support? Send me a message and let's catch up!

With a unique Designer/Copywriter skill-set, my freelance aim has always been simple: help new businesses get off the ground in any way I can. From designing websites for data analysis firms, to crafting brand guidelines for wedding agencies.

Anyone who’s worked with me knows I love a good brand… so it’s only right that I sat on the Senior Management Team to manage all things brand/marketing at Live Group. From crafting the vision for the brand identity, to coordinating the intricacies of our marketing strategies - it was my job to make sure anyone who thought about events, thought about Live Group first. Challenge accepted. This role saw me do it all; from launching a new brand, to devising a marketing strategy for an events company between global lockdowns (thanks Covid). That's why I was absolutely thrilled to leave on a high, having brought in £1.2mil revenue through marketing channels in our very first year of actively marketing ourselves... again, in the middle of a global pandemic. Not bad at all. This is the role that made me fall in love with brand and marketing... and inspired me to start a business venture of my own!

My mission? To work alongside our clients, building amazing brand experiences for amazing projects - from HM Government LGBT summits to EY student induction engagement plans. This time, providing client consultation and throwing ideas around with a team of full-time and freelance creatives to produce top-notch content, built specifically around each project’s unique objectives.

Brand identities, brochures, signage, stages, exhibition stands, websites, apps. You name it, our projects needed it. And if our projects needed it, I designed it.When you're working from the centre of a small but mighty Design Studio, there's no such thing as a set to-do list, and deadlines change on an hourly basis. That's every day spent on my toes, throwing ideas around with the wider team and weaving in excitement every step of the way; from wireframing custom websites for EY to designing all-encompassing brand identities for Government-led world symposiums. Anything from bold and beautiful to inspiring and show-stopping... though that last one is figuratively of course, otherwise I wouldn't have been doing my job very well at all.

With an MA in English grasped in both hands, I made the move down south to start my shiny copywriting career - writing bids and proposals to win projects for our ever-eager team. From creative pitches to Government tenders, I worked with the Live Group unit to weave stories, learn from experiences and piece together what it actually means to run an event (quite a lot, it turns out). After gaining some solid Live Group insights, I started helping out in the Design Studio reworking our marketing materials and putting my (then limited) design skills to the test. A steep learning curve and a whole lot of support later, I made the jump to the Design Team, and haven't looked back since.

A student experience which saw me craft 'ambitious' (to say the least) marketing strategies, lay up amateur InDesign templates, fix too many of my own printing mistakes, manage external comms faux pas and organise focus groups primarily around the promise of a free lunch. 'The Hullfire Project' taught me more than I could ever have imagined. Turns out voluntary experience is worthwhile after all - who knew? As is the theme for my current working life, I jumped in at the deep end to manage two pretty substantial roles: Chair of HUU Student Media and Deputy Editor & Designer of the HUU Student Newspaper. Bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed, my aims seemed fairly straightforward:1. After a huge relaunch of a new united media front, it was my job to ensure Hullfire Media reflected the needs and wants of the 18,000 students at the University of Hull; and2. Make sure the volunteers who held up this stella organisation were properly recognised, rewarded and had fun whilst doing it. With no real measurables other than how much people laughed when they were in the Hullfire Office, all I can say with confidence is that at least I achieved one of my goals.

Did this job spark a passion for retail work? Absolutely not. Did it teach me everything I need to become an Olympic-bound athlete? Quite possibly - though I'm still waiting for my invite for that one. Did it teach me the value of team-work, keeping up a good sense of humour in the 'office' and a bucket-load of people skills? You bet. Everyone's got to start somewhere, right?