Journal

Marking seven years in business, here are a few key lessons learned, from the value of in-person connections and setting boundaries to the importance of supporting competitors and taking time to recharge.

I’m delighted to be invited back by Clearleft for the third consecutive year to provide event marketing support for their Leading Design London 2024 conference at the Barbican Centre (6–7 November).

Robots handing out canapés and mixologists bringing AI generated cocktails to life. It was lots of fun organising a rooftop summer party for LeftBrain and their clients.

I am delighted to have been invited by Cornwall 365 to run a marketing workshop in Newquay on Tuesday 4th June. It is aimed at local businesses looking for ways to improve their understanding of marketing and discover creative, cost-effective ways to expand their brand presence.

I am thrilled to be working for LeftBrain to create a showroom at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week (21-23 May 2024), sponsored by Dropbox and in collaboration with Notion and The School of Life.

Working in a freelance capacity as Head of Marketing for LeftBrain, I had the pleasure of putting together a behind-the-scenes look at their brand refresh with A-Side Studio.

At Cornwall's first-ever Marketing Meetup, hosted by Peaky Digital at the National Maritime Museum, Bronwen Foster-Butler (CMO at Finisterre) shared how sustainability and creativity can drive the bottom line.

Having been a Trustee for Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange since 2018, it was a pleasure to be asked to put together some family-friendly recommendations for their blog

It's my 5 year birthday! I have been running a communications and marketing consultancy business for half a decade. To celebrate, I'm sharing five of my favourite client projects.

Leading Design London is a conference for design leaders, hosted at the iconic Barbican Centre. It has been a pleasure to provide the Clearleft events team with marketing support.

Having worked as Communications Manager on the Go Cornish project for Golden Tree Productions, it was a pleasure to be asked to help launch their Go Cornish for Primary Schools programme.

Green&Blue are about to host their third Solitary Bee Week, sharing and celebrating the importance of our pollinating solitary bees. Running from June 28th to July 4th, there are lots of fun and fabulous ways to get involved.

It was a pleasure to be invited back by Cultivator Cornwall to run several marketing workshops for creative businesses across Cornwall.

Kerdroya: The Cornish Landscape Labyrinth is taking shape! It's a pleasure to be working as Communications Manager for Golden Tree Productions, as they create the world’s largest classical labyrinth – built to last 4,000 years.

Given the current Covid-19 crisis and its damaging impact on creative and cultural industries across Cornwall, it is more important than ever for Cornwall Council and its partners to get behind Cornwall’s Creative Manifesto.

2020 is the year of all years to shop local and choose Christmas gifts with meaning. Here is a selection of Cornish gift ideas that can be purchased from the comfort of your own home, whilst making a lasting difference beyond the festive season.

As England awaits another potential national lockdown, it felt like an opportune moment to visit Newlyn Art Gallery’s Extraordinary Postcards for Extraordinary Times exhibition.

In celebration of Harbour Church’s 10th anniversary, they wanted to come up with a new visual look and feel whilst thinking through the church’s vision and values.

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Barefoot Media to establish Golden Tree Productions’s brand identity and launch their new website.

Falmouth University invited me back for a third year, to lecture on ‘Creative Campaigning’ for the BA Journalism and Communications students.

Last month, Cornwall Council invited me to Kresen Kernow in Redruth to run a messaging workshop with their Culture and Creative Industries team.

It is a pleasure to be working on a freelance basis for the Minack Theatre, looking after the marketing and PR for their Minack Productions.

Having been part of Phase 1 of the Design Out Drowning project, headed up by Made Open, it has been great to see the RLNI trialling a new way of delivering safety messages on Cornish beaches.

In 2019, it was a great honour to be selected to join the Board of Trustees for Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange. Supporting contemporary artists since 1895, the Gallery believes that art can inspire and drive change.

Many thanks to Secret Truro for inviting me to run a ‘Creative Marketing for Business’ workshop at Workbox Truro on Monday 29th April from 9.30am to 12.30pm.

Golden Tree Productions, creators of The Man Engine, have partnered with the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) on their ‘Kerdroya: Cornish Hedge Community Heritage Project’.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett was one of my favourite books as a child. So, it was an absolute pleasure to be asked by The Minack Theatre to support them in the marketing of their production this April 2019.

I’m pleased to announce I’ve been featured by Falmouth University in their ‘Falmouth Stories’ series, which celebrates the successes of the university’s graduates.

On Wednesday 13th March, I will be running a 'Back to Basics: Marketing' workshop for Cultivator Cornwall, which will help creatives and small businesses think about the best ways to reach their intended audience.

With the year drawing to a close, it’s a good moment to reflect on some of the organisations around Cornwall that have campaigned for purpose as well as profit in 2018.