Freelance consultancy

Freelance consultant
December 2002 to January 2013 (part-time)

From 2002 to 2013 I combined a full-time role with working occassionally as a part-time consultant on a variety of communications, marketing and website projects. I also provided public and in-house communications and marketing training courses.

My client list includes:

• A2Dominion
• Accelerate Nottingham
• Allerdale Borough Council
• Behind the Spin PR student magazine
• British Marine Electronics Association
• Bullet PR New Zealand / Ogilvy NZ
• Chartered Institute of Marketing
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Fife Council
• Filtration Society
• Hadlow College
• Hampshire County Council
• Hertfordshire County Council
• Hertfordshire district councils
• Institute of Internal Communication
• Kent County Council
• Merton Council
• Neath Port Talbot Council
• Peterborough City Council
• Powys County Council
• PR Academy
• Skills Funding Agency
• Stafford Borough Council
• Transport Scotland

From 2002 to 2008 I also worked as consultant to Tinderhouse – a company I helped Kent-based designer Nick Tatt launch in early 2003.

Tinderhouse is a communications consultancy specialising in delivering high quality internet and marketing services to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kent and South East England.

I was originally responsible for conceiving and developing the Tinderhouse service and marketing propositions. As well as delivering web and marketing activities for clients since December 2002 we have developed the business into a network of high quality freelance designers, programmers and marketers.

Developing the Tinderhouse business gave me real experience of running a small business and managing client relationships professionally. This experience has proved invaluable in my full-time work roles.

In 2008 I delivered online and offline public relations for the new Tinderhouse-developed Map My Tracks start-up. This innovative mobile phone GPS sports tracking application brings affordable GPS tracking to sportsmen and women using just their mobile phones.