Here’s the thing – when I’m writing for everyone else, I actually find it very difficult to write for myself!
There’s a whole lot that’s happened in the last couple of years that hasn’t made it onto my website, because I’ve been too busy DOING the thing to WRITE ABAOUT the thing. Exactly why I tell people to come to me for their blogging! I ought to know better, really…
Short highlights of 2020-22 then:
- March 2020- Feb 2021 I spent a lot of time writing for Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum, supporting the voluntary organisations that are members of VSF to support people in need in Cornwall. Hard work, very worthwhile, and very handy for me, as a lot of my regular customers were furloughed or otherwise occupied.
Since then, I’ve been gradually picking up my regular work, including a few significant-sized projects/clients:
- Writing most of an edition of Discover magazine, for Disability Cornwall.
- Increasing amounts of work for South West Academic Health Science Network (South West AHSN), including a large amount of re-writing / paraphrasing work on their new-look website, and also on their 2021-22 Annual Review.
- Becoming the Communications Officer for Cornwall Equality and Diversity Network, carrying out awareness raising campaigns around hearing loss, and how mental ill health affects different groups. More about that in a blog to come.
- Significant work for Inclusion Cornwall, around its Village Works project, and wider inclusion remit. This has included a refresh of their whole website, as well as updating all of the Resource library.
- Working with colleagues Bernard and Claire to be the interim communications team for Kent Surrey & Sussex Academic Health Science Network (KSS AHSN), while a new internal comms team is appointed. This has included the entire comms function of the organisation, between the three of us, (until Christmas 2022).
- Your Partnerships, for which I’ve been writing blogs (no longer on their website) and various items for The Voice newspapers, and other media channels, and arranging the content for, and proofreading the monthly flyers. I am now a Sponsor Member of Your Partnerships.
I have also found some smaller new clients:
- The Bear in Mine’d teddy bear museum, in Troon, run by a friend, for which I’ve written the museum boards, the website, and most of the rest of everything, and for which we’re now setting up an online shop.
- Easter Blooms, selling eco-friendly plants and garden products in West Cornwall and online.
- In Caring Hands, a care agency, with more appealing, softer, content than it had before
- Minerva Health and Safety Consultancy, for whom I’m proofreading training courses.
- I’ve also proofread a pair of autobiographies, almost back-to-back, that were written in lockdown. You can buy one online – Viv Bennett’s (now Viv Gauge – congratulations!)’s Meanderings of a Serial Goat Keeper.
The long and short of it is – I’m still here, I’m busy, but always happy to chat with more potential customers, or returning customers, and I’d love to explore what you need help with in the broad area of ‘words’.