Today I had the pleasure of delivering an ‘Intro to AI’ session to the brilliant team at Community Action Northumberland (CAN) – with apologies to those staff chopped off in the photo! Rather than a generic presentation, I made it practical, showing how AI can support real roles in the charity sector. We explored examples … Continue Reading
Can you see the strings we’re holding in this picture? They’re a perfect symbol for something I’ve been thinking about lately – embracing community as a freelancer. Earlier this week I joined fellow mentors to celebrate the end of a brilliant pilot programme, delivering peer-to-peer mentoring for leaders of socially trading organisations with North East … Continue Reading
This February 2025 marks 10 years since I took the leap into freelancing. To celebrate, I’m sharing 10 tips for anyone considering this rewarding and flexible career path. The image below is a tool I use with mentees to walk through the key steps—hope it helps! 1. Save for tax – every month Learn from … Continue Reading
For me, 2024 as a freelancer has been varied, challenging, creative and exciting, all against a stressful homelife supporting 4 teenagers going through A-level and GCSE exams simultaneously. Here’s a quick rundown of the highs, lows, learnings and randoms. The Highs The LOWS The RANDOM The LEARNING —And that’s 2024 nearly wrapped up! If you’re … Continue Reading
Female colleagues – are you guilty of saying these five things in your everyday speech? Then stop! We’re sounding less confident and self-sabotaging, according to this article. I’m guilty of some of these and pledge to do better! Just(“I just want to check in and see…,” I’m just wondering…”)Inserting ‘just’ into sentences diminishes what we … Continue Reading
This Wednesday (11th September) I’m delivering my regular Canva for Beginners workshop for North Tyneside VODA, and I’ve just heard the class is full, and so is the waiting list! I love delivering this workshop, it’s so much fun sharing what this tool is capable of. But most important for me is being on hand, … Continue Reading
Be aware, you can get locked out of your charity’s account if you don’t enter it correctly. You can ignore this pop-up message and dismiss it for a while, but eventually it does seem to stick and not let you close the box without this information. When you add a date, do NOT make it … Continue Reading
This last week I’ve had a growing list of clients choosing to leave Twitter/X.Some have asked for advice before doing so, others are resolute they want nothing to do with it any more and want links removed from websites.This is in light of it becoming a hostile space with no checks/moderation in place, disinformation spread … Continue Reading