About Me
I have a broad range of experience having worked in the Charitable Sector since 2003. I have been a frontline young people's support worker, worked within childhood bereavement services, been a community family support worker for a substance misuse charity, Business Development for a national charity supporting female offenders, and I trained in Systemic Family Psychotherapy at Birmingham CAMHS (Systemic Practitioner) with John Burnham. I am a trustee, and have been a Director of two local charities and I'm currently CEO of a Heritage Community Centre in Gloucester. In these roles I have learnt how to build relationships, how to develop organisational strategy, operational management, income generation, transformational change and leadership skills. I have been successfully bid writing trust and foundation grant applications for ten years.
In my freelance capacity I have been delivering culture, infrastructure and systems change, business development and income generation. My clients are based all across the UK from a national charity supporting homeless adults with complex needs, an arts charity delivering art and music in schools in Oxfordshire, a non-profit supporting older people in London and an organisation based in Greater Manchester that supports marginalised and minority ethnic communities through wellbeing programs, youth activities, educational workshops, and social support services. I have bid writing experience and success in National Lottery Awards For All and Reaching Communities, National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England, Children in Need, The Fore, Postcode Local Trust, Garfield Weston and a whole host of others.
I studied with QuoLux and The University of Gloucestershire to gain my Masters in Leading Business (MBA) graduating in 2022. It is with Quolux that I learned to match my non-profit experience with academic theory to improve my knowledge and understanding of leadership and its importance in generating success. I launched Luma in April 2023 to broaden my experience and offer my skills to non-profit organisations across the UK.