As a freelancer, what tools do you use to help you reflect on how things are going? When I managed a team of people within a creative...

This call out is now closed: I look forward to sharing more updates on the project soon. Thanks to funding from the Scottish Book Trust's...

With hindsight, the first week of April 2020 perhaps wasn’t the simplest time to launch myself into freelance life. Whilst the first...

This post was originally written for - and published via - the Clore Social Leadership blog. Rebecca Solnit's book ‘A Paradise Built in...

I've been a regular at The Gathering - SCVO's annual charity sector conference, for the past five or six years. It's always a fascinating...

Over the past 12 months it's been a real pleasure to develop and lead a partnership between Macrobert Arts Centre and The Thistles...

This Spring, I'll be leaving my role as Operations Director at Macrobert Arts Centre, and taking a new step into freelance life. It's the...

We launched Creative Breakfasts at Macrobert Arts Centre last September. They grew from an idea that – often – what we most need in order...

I've had a long-standing connection with both The National Lottery Community Fund and Eden Project Communities. Both organisations...

It’s somehow easier to take inspiration from the actions of ‘ordinary’ people than from celebrities or those who seem super-human. Whilst...

I was delighted to be approached by Linlithgow Community Development Trust, who are in the process of running the very first Linlithgow...

Fun Palaces is a national campaign for cultural democracy. It's a reminder that we all have skills, talents, interests and passions, and...

In 2017 I authored a Creative Scotland-funded report entitled 'Innovation in Fundraising'. Created to share novel ideas that can help...

The SOUP movement is a network of community-run crowdfunding events, each celebrating and supporting local projects in their area. The...