Employer: St. John Ambulance
Location: Nottingham, England
Position: Marketing & Appeals Director
Dates: 09/99 – 12/01

Extensive public speaking, media relations (TV, radio, and newsprint) and general communications. Managing funding applications, leading new fund-raising campaigns and events. I designed, managed and executed a joint fund-raising campaign with a local newspaper. The joint ‘Start-a-Heart’ project aimed to buy community based defibrillator machines and became a benchmark project for St John Ambulance, fund-raising and facilitating over
£100k support, enabling the placement of over 40 AED machines, which helped save 4 lives within the 1st year.