About Me

I have presented, written and developed projects within the charity and community sector having worked with funding providers, delivered training and community engagement programmes with National Youth Theatre and Derbyshire Youth Theatre training as a youngster, a creative artist with a love of the magical, mystical and paranormal, dry sense of humour, a people person, very expressive with a broad range of tone, voice and style of delivery.

Acting

Experience

Accents

Employment History & Experience

Panto, sketches, anchor man parts in school, university, National and Derbyshire Youth Theatres, unpaid.
Radio voice overs and radio advertising for English language school in Poland, video casts and voice overs for community projects and social enterprise projects.

Presenting

Experience

Specialist Areas

Employment History & Experience

Presented Social Enterprise Project Communication and delivered follow up group training including motivational sessions. Delivered presentations to funding providers with passion working alongside client applicants over last 11 years.

Entertainment

Experience

Employment History & Experience

Holiday rep, First Choice Holidays 1994

Extras Work, Partipant, Contestant

Experience

Experience & Qualifications

General Experience

Presentations, Demonstrations, teaching (art, English, heritage, community development, social enterprise, project development, funding and bid writing, project design and project development, history, folklore and culture, mythology and ancient history.

Qualifications & Training

BA Hons History, Msc. Business, Certificate in TESOL, PTTLS Level 4 Adult Teaching, Cert. SFEDI Business Adviser, Social Enterprise Teacher, ILM Business Management, qualified funding adviser and trainer, artist and product designer.

Other Information

Relevant Skills

Good presentation skills, social communicator, credibility, clear honesty, a broad range of voice skills, sales technique, diplomacy, coherent, reasoned argument, obvious empathy and always used as an anchor in training and presentation delivery.

Interests & Hobbies

Sculpting, product design and model making, art, art therapy, holistic therapy, ancient history and heritage, paleontology, dogs, spiritual and paranormal, pagan culture and psychic mediums, community engagement and funding (project design to completion and management).

Miscellaneous Information

Excellent sense of humour, i've lived in Poland and the Czech Republic sold projects via presentation and delivered technical public speaking to hundreds paid for by funders and regenration agencies, often to tough crowds.