It's hard to know what to do in a crisis like this, at the start everyone felt helpless... 

At first I didn't know how best to help, I volunteered and joined local Covid-19 supporter groups, but I also wanted to do something positive with my skills.

I have always helped...

The act of giving small change is having a big change! 

The success of touch and pay machines has been so rapid that many people no longer carry change - which means the old way of charities collecting money in buckets and desk-top displays (like this wonderfully bad ex...

I have recently been part of a new ArtLoan initiative which launched on 22nd June 2018.

The idea of starting an Art Loan initiative is simple, people who are members of Sprout Arts - a small community arts hub in Furzedown, South London - will be able to borrow an origi...

On May 25th 2018 the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) officially starts.

This is the biggest overhaul in 20 years. A lot has changed since the existing data protection laws and regulations were created in the 1990s. As a society, we're creating vast amounts...

Normally I design and art direct appeals for charities professionally but I also raise money in my neighbourhood through FACE (Furzedown Annual Charity Events) for local charities including St George's Hospital and South London MNDA.

Over the last 7 years we have raised...

I've recently been working with the Brooke on their virtual gift range, including designing their gift catalogue, fulfilment pack and advertising.

It will be interesting to see how successful the advertising is; on Black Friday they placed my adverts in the Telegraph...

I recently got invited to a special event at The Speaker's House in Parliament by my local MP Sadiq Khan. It was to celebrate community heroes who give up their time and skills - I belong to a small local fundraising group called FACE and over 4 years we've put on even...

The centenary of WW1 has produced some very emotional and memorable works of art and chances to mark a key moment in history.

Last year I was asked by the RCS and The Lady R Foundation to help promote their centenuary production of Britten's War Requiem at The Roya...

My friend has just done the ice bucket challenge - she has the perfect reason too as it's supposed to raise awareness of Motor Neurone Disease and her lovely husband Gareth died from this just 2 years ago...

I'm currently developing a new Brand identity for The University of Leicester Students' Union - briefed in August, to be ready for the new term in mid September! 

There are quite a few challenges; not least the time and budget constraints.

The brief was to re-en...