I plan, organise and execute engagement events and communications campaigns to help connect and collaborate with a range of stakeholders.

What I do at Energiesprong UK

I lead on our stakeholder engagement activities to ensure we are sharing honest lessons and creating connections to enable a more collaborative and cohesive retrofit sector. This activity ranges from workshops, to webinars, to study tours.  

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I also assist with communication and dissemination activities to create content and campaigns that engage with our key audiences.  

What I did before Energiesprong UK

My communications career started when I joined the Public Relations team at Cardiff University in 2008 where I worked on a wide range of large-scale campaigns and events.  

I then worked at the Wales Millennium Centre in their press office for a year.  

Before joining Energiesprong UK, I spent seven years at climate action NGO WRAP, devising and running behaviour change campaigns to encourage UK citizens to adopt more sustainable behaviours – from reducing household food waste to recycling more bathroom plastics to repairing and upcycling clothes.  

Some highlights include running the largest national recycling campaign in Wales in a decade, helping to create an award-winning international Food Waste Action Week campaign, and delivering two city-wide sustainable clothing public engagement events and piloting an employee engagement campaign, that together, helped divert ten tonnes of unwanted clothing from landfill.  

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My biggest achievement

Outside work, I love sport and sewing!

Biggest sporting achievements are leading a team of 12 people running a relay from London to Cardiff – and winning! And climbing the UK three peaks in 24 hours as part of a team of 26 friends to raise £16,000 for Sarcoma UK.  

I started a small business in my early twenties designing and sewing homeware. A highlight was when Country Living Magazine used some of my products to advertise their Christmas Fair – seeing a huge billboard in London and on Tube station posters was incredible!  

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