The art of work

Lincolnshire Creative Solutions Initiative

My ability to guide, support, and advise is based on years of experience working in the sector. As an independent contractor I've also had the experience of running my own small business since 1984.

I know how easy it is to become work-weary, isolated or just plain bereft of ideas.

I can listen carefully and objectively, and help you towards an uncluttered analysis of your situation. We can then work together to make the plans to take you forwards.

I am committed to ongoing professional development. Arts Council England have supported me with post-graduate level training in Business and Personal Coaching

For the last three years, I’ve been one of the two independent Business Advisors to the LCSI Creative Industries support scheme. The scheme has now come to an end with significant results.

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Over the last three years, LCSI investment has changed the cultural landscape of the county, providing a high profile focal point for creative practitioners, businesses and festivals; assisting the development of new businesses and festival organisations; enabling existing enterprises to grow and expand; and creating new public artworks.

LCSI has awarded funding and support to a diverse range of creative enterprises -- from individual creative entrepreneurs who've been assisted to establish new businesses, to existing businesses that have been helped to grow and expand.

12 new creative industries entrepreneurs, ranging from digital animators and videogame developers to painters, photographers and sculptors, successfully established their businesses with LCSI support.

68 existing businesses were assisted. All the owners reported that LCSI enable the businesses to survive and 49 that LCSI had enabled them to grow their businesses. LCSI enabled 74 creative businesses to develop new web sites to improve connectivity and access to markets.