Consultancy

I help create change from the frontline to the frontbench.

I bring 13 years of experience driving social impact across the charity sector, politics and social enterprise.

From service improvement to influencing policy, I believe change happens through collaboration, creativity and listening to people closest to the issues.

I help organisations large and small with a range of strategic advice, specific project support, or just being a spare pair of hands when you need one.

What I Offer

Strategy & Impact

Clarify the impact you want to make and create a clear plan to get there.

I’ve co-produced, written and delivered organisational strategies achieving major impact – like Switchback’s 2019-22 strategic plan which doubled the charity’s delivery reach, tripled income from £400,000 to £1.3 million, and established Switchback as a leading advocacy voice in criminal justice.

I can help you with:

  • Developing an effective strategy

  • Writing a clear strategic plan

  • Measuring impact & success

  • Strategic advice and support.

Policy & Advocacy

Develop a compelling agenda, shape the debate and inspire change in policy and practice.

I understand how policy and systems change happens from the inside, having worked in national politics, and the outside, working in national and local charities delivering wins like increasing the prisoner discharge grant for the first time in 26 years.

I can help you with:

  • Developing an advocacy strategy

  • Producing a clear agenda

  • Delivering advocacy activity

  • Other policy and advocacy advice.

Communications & Campaigns

Refine your messaging, raise awareness and shift the narrative.

I’ve helped organisations gain national coverage and shift perceptions on social issues through press, social media and creative content like Time & Again, winner of Best Arts & Culture Podcast 2023 at the British Podcast Awards. I can help you with:

  • Creating clear, consistent key messages

  • Developing a comms or campaigns plan

  • Delivering comms or campaigns activity

  • Expert comms and campaigns advice.

Involvement & Engagement

I’ve supported organisations to enhance the voice of lived experience in their work, like developing an Experts by Experience board for Switchback, supporting young prison-leavers to become powerful advocates for change inside and outside the charity. I can help with:

  • Building your involvement or engagement plan

  • Making ‘user involvement’ more meaningful

  • Integrating lived experience across delivery, policy or comms

  • Expert user involvement advice.

Amplify the voice and power of people you support.

Let’s work together