My Experience

Freelance

The Scouts Association

Providing advice and business plans for the Scout Association commercial arm that operates 65 Queensgate and Gilwell Park. These venues deliver a range of services including conferencing, events, weddings and a small hotel business. This project aimed to increase and stabilise income across the portfolio.

British Museum

Providing corporate development and sponsorship support, covering new business, renewals
and account management for around 30 FTSE 100 companies.

London Library

Building on the work done previously, this second stage, roughly six months later involves
launching the venue hire offer by providing the venue team with all the necessary documentation and operational standards needed to run a venue hire offer, a full marketing strategy and providing onsite training for the team in place.

London Borough of Hackney/Hackney Venues

Delivering a marketing audit for the Hackney Venues Portfolio and full business development
strategy for one of the venues.

London Borough of Bexley

Carrying out a research project aimed at increasing profitable income from the key public
library sites across the borough. This involved identifying current activity, making suggestions for ways to develop the facilities and provided a marketing strategy.

Portico Library, Manchester

The short project focused on the current venue hire offer and offered advice as to how to
increase bookings, optimise the potential for income through standardising hire periods and providing marketing advice.

London Library

Providing an overview of opportunities for the possible implementation of a venue hire scheme aimed at increasing income for the Library. This project involved working across all departments to ascertain the operational impact whilst also determining where the venue would sit in the wider market.

London Borough of Bexley

Providing advice for Hall Place and Gardens focussing on venue hire, marketing, visitor experience, membership, cafes and commercial development.

Garden Museum

Designing, implementing and managing a brand new venue hire, corporate development and
corporate sponsorship scheme for this recently renovated museum.

Permanent Employment

Deputy Director (Commercial) - Shoreditch Town hall

Working for Shoreditch Town Hall, a venue and arts organisation focussed on producing and
supporting new theatre, writing and site specific performances, I was responsible for the delivery of all commercial functions including venue hire, leases, front of house and bars.

Chairman - Camberwell Arts Festival

As Chairman I was responsible for the running of the charity and delivery of the annual visual
arts festival. This meant overseeing budget management, fundraising, community liaison, local authority relationships, curation, volunteer management and operational delivery.

Head of Sales and Marketing - London Borough of Hackney/Hackney Venues

During my time with the London Borough of Hackney I single handedly created the Hackney Venues
brand, drawing together seven venues under one banner and taking them to market, increasing income by over 50% in two years. I also had full operational management of three of the venues.

Board Member - Unique Venues of London

Working for this event and venue hire marketing consortium I had responsibility for web content
management, social media and day-to-day running. The post afforded me the ability to work with some of the best venues, caterers and production companies
in London.

Venue Sales and Marketing Manager - British Museum

At the British Museum I spanned both event management and event sales roles, delivering
amazing corporate events for FTSE 250 companies and developing the business to achieve ambitious income targets.

House Manager - Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for Arts

At Lighthouse, I learned all I know about operational, front of house and event management,
overseeing a 1600 seat auditorium and a 2500 seat concert hall.

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