22nd May 2026
This week I:
- Hosted an event focused on briefing for CharityComms. The talks from Corinne Clark and Mutave Mutemi were both amazing, and full of incredibly useful practical detail.
- Got the last content populated for my new website, which should be launching in two weeks 🤞 I am so excited about this. Having a crap website as a content professional is mortifying, and mine has been crap for far too long.
- Wrapped up my project with Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, which is bittersweet. We’ve been working together for over a year, and have made so much progress together on their content strategy. I’ve loved working with Charlotte Young and the rest of the team. And I’ve been blown away by the commitment and care they show in telling the stories of the children and their families.
- Got stuck into some workshop planning, and challenged myself to think of some new ways to facilitate to get the best out of an upcoming session where we have some BIG decisions to make. Thanks to Rowena Seabrook for being a sounding board.
- Spent a lot of time working on proposals for and conversations about upcoming projects. This has gone a long way towards reassuring me that work is coming and I won’t be kicking my heels in a few weeks time.
- Attended the Shifting Beyond event and loved having the chance to connect with so many interesting, intelligent people working to create change. I also especially loved this collective artefact that come out of the session about the future we want to see.
- I’m going through one of those phases where I have a lot of ideas and interests and things I want to do. This week I’ve been thinking and reading and learning and writing and making across a lot of different topics: Pre-Norman life in England, the Enclosure Act, what being part of a community actually looks like, AI in charities, weeds as a metaphor for different styles of leadership, medicinal properties of daisies, dandelion stem baskets, elderflower cordial. I love this energy and enthusiasm, but I probably need to focus it a bit. This is definitely a spring thing for me – it’s my favourite season and all the new life and growth happens in my brain as well as in nature.