April-May 2025 - Personal development and team-building workshops for a cohort of local people joining the Welsh Harp Sailing Club

Sept 2023 - A joint teach-in at Chalkhill Community Centre for London Renters Union members and English For Action asylum seekers in Brent. Workshops on Damp and Mould and asylum seeker housing options post hotel,  with plenaries to link the two issues. Organised by me and the other LRU education rep and the LRU organiser. 

May 2023 - English for Action conference on Trauma-informed participatory education at Kings College London. Coordinated a voluntary organising team comprised of experienced ESOL teachers from around England.

July 20022 - Love ESOL  Picnic - an annual campaign strategy event at Tower Bridge green. I was part of the small EFA staff and student organising team, putting my big voice and body to use on the day.

March 2022 - EFA Community Assembly in Brent. Coordinated our local staff and student leader in organising a community assembly in the run up to the local elections. Run in partnership with other local migrant rights stakeholders, it was attended by a hundred people, including half the council cabinet. Our manifesto was developed over several participatory workshops and our weekly classes, and translated by students into 22 community languages. 

July 2021 - English for Action conference on Health; Coordinated the EFA staff team in putting on this online conference.

2020-2023 -Teacher-Organiser with English for Action. A great collective of teachers working with refugees and migrant workers and mothers, who have played a leading role for over a decade in developing participatory pedagogy among UK and European practitioners: a social and educational classroom that is geared towards collective action. Heavily influenced by Freire and Boal.

Sept 2015 - A mass meeting at the Calais Jungle refugee camp (before it was demolished); elected 12 refugess leaders from different nationalities who did meet but weren't really in a position to sustain organisiation. One leader, after he made the crossing, and moved to to London instigated the Brent Unite Communtity committe's programme on ESOL, which trained 15 volunteer teachers who taught in partnership with several local organisations, before merging with EFA.

Feb 2015 -  TUC Conference on Welfare Reform, organised by Unite Community and PCS Union. I was the Unite Regional Community Coordinator leading on this.

Dec 2014 - A 4 day training programme for Unite Community organisers in the London and Eastern region. Run across 5 sites in London, the different days covered Welfare and Housing Rights; Political Economy; Theatre and Arts; Activist Sustainability; and Community Organising methods.

Summer 2008 - Kingsnorth Climate Camp Workshops programme. Three of us curaated a schedule of over 200 workshops and 5 plenaries on the politics of climate change. The whole experience of organising via the climate camp movement, for a couple of years, and the Workers' Climate Action network which formed alongside it, was a gret experience, underpinned by theory/training from organisatons like Seeds for Change of consensus based decision making on a large scale.

March 2008 - Conference at SOAS to launch a new social movement coalition: the Trade Union and Community Campaign against Immigration Controls (CAIC). As part of the steering group for the conference and beyond, the initative helped sustain an active solidarity between different actors in the movement, at a time of important Living Wage campaigning and the victimisations of migrant union leaders that came in its wake. 

2005-2009: activist and organiser with the Alliance for Workers' Liberty; an important experience in adult working-class self-education and debate. With purpose, and much less intellectual cynicism than often on the left, members learnt to make interventions on the wider political stage, striking a decent balance between advocating for group positions and one's own view, and the importance of holding the line.

Summer 2003 - Homerton College Diversity Week - a programme of rights-based workshops, theatre and comedy for LGBT, Disabled, Women and Black students.

2002-2005 - 5 plays in 4 Cambridge theatres: Beautiful Thing, Dancing at Lughnasa, Cleansed, The Pitchfork Disney, Testimonies (LGBT new writing), and acted in a few others (badly)and even wrote one (worse)

2002-2007 - Volunteer Team Advisor / Senior Team member on residential programmes with Focus, a charity set up by Oxbridge students, then working across four cities. A brilliant training and experience with an organisation that developed a thoughtful set of pedagogic, ethical, personal development and community-building principles, evolved from the starting point of bringing together adults with learning disabilities, socially disaffected young people and volunteers for a week or so in the Easter and summer holidays. They developped a great repertoire of activities for reflection on groupwork, and embedded reflexive practice and feedback thoroughly into a week's activities, with each time having an allocated Team advisor whose sole role was to observe and ensure there were regular and adaptive junctures for authentic, appreciative and frank feedback on conflict and development. 

October 2001 - Teach-in on Afghanistan and Islamophobia, coordinated by our team of three co-chairs of the Oxford University Students Union anti-racism campaign.