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  • Fundraising campaign for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

    Fundraising campaign for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

    I work with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway on an ad hoc freelance basis to support marketing and fundraising campaigns. I was recently engaged to develop and implement a marketing campaign to raise funds for the charity. The campaign aimed to raise £200,000 to kick-start the restoration of The Green Knight locomotive. My role involved: Read more

  • New Online Course – Generating Media Coverage on a Shoestring

    New Online Course – Generating Media Coverage on a Shoestring

    Are you involved with a non profit, charity or community project? My new online course on 29 January 2026 (evening) will help you to get your story in the media without any budget or experience. I will share tips from my day job – working in PR for over 30 years to help you go Read more

  • Promoting Wildlife and Heritage at Pocklington’s Primrose Wood

    Promoting Wildlife and Heritage at Pocklington’s Primrose Wood

    Proud to have recently completed an environmental marketing project, creating interpretation for Primrose Wood in Pocklington in the Yorkshire Wolds. The heritage and environmental interpretation includes signage, a leaflet, website content and a series of walks that I will lead in Spring 2026. The elements aim to inspire people to explore and discover the history Read more

  • Agency, freelancer or employee?

    Agency, freelancer or employee?

    Should you work with a York PR agency, a York freelancer or employ someone? This is a conundrum faced by many businesses. I’ve worked in house managing a team and recruitment, I’ve appointed and managed PR and marketing agencies and have also worked for agencies as well as working freelance. I can give you a Read more

  • A flexible pair of extra hands

    A flexible pair of extra hands

    As a marketing freelancer in Yorkshire, I’m flexible about how I work to suit the needs of your organisation. Many clients approach me because they have been awarded significant funding but don’t have the internal marketing resource to deliver. Some have had changes in their marketing team and want some help to get them through Read more

  • Evaluation of £10M Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey Project

    Evaluation of £10M Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey Project

    I’m busy writing up the final evaluation report for the 6 year £10 million Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey project delivered by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and funded primarily by the The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project concludes in July 2024 having delivered a wealth of projects that have transformed the railway and its future Read more