I am Creative Programme Manager at The Children's Country House at Sudbury.

I completed my Fellowship in 2014 – How Can Young People Lead Creative Change? It was research-focused on how we can create and deliver successful experiences that enable young people to become leaders.

My whole career has been focused on creative and participatory programmes for children and young people. Since my Fellowship I worked at The Mighty Creatives to develop a youth panel and developed youth-led festivals. I then worked as creative projects manager at a theatre implementing participatory practices through learning, community and emerging artists programme. At The National Youth Agency I rewrote Hear by Right, a participatory framework that supports organisations to embed young people within their structures, where I worked alongside Barnardo's and the NSPCC. Today I am heading up the development of the world's first Children's Country House – a heritage experience created with, for and by children.

My Fellowship still pushes me to question my practice and ensure that I truly understand the barriers young people face every day, and how to ensure consultation is at the heart of what I do.