Routes to Resilience
Consultancy and Writing
I always enjoy working with projects on the ground. As I have worked across so many sectors - health, education, community development, social care - I like to use my skills to create connections across cultural and professional boundaries.
I am a big picture whole systems thinker - engaging people to co-create a collective vision for something new. However, a vision without action stays as a dream, so I also have a good toolbox for supporting organisations to ground vision into practical action.
My current work includes a project with Oxfordshire County Council to highlight Community Wealth building initiatives. We are collecting stories using a Public Narrative Framework. With my colleague Makena we are building an A to Z, describing the qualitative and relational aspects of community hub building.
My leadership development work is currently mostly through Clore Social Leadership, within their Experienced and Emerging Leader Programmes.
Working with Nature Effect associates we are developing two gardens in Bullingdon Prison and an Inside Out project connecting prisoners and their families to nature.
LTL have been fortunate to be able to retain Annie’s services as a professional in the field of both early years and community environmental regeneration. Annie’s experience is very detailed and she can address issues ranging from educational strategy to capital development, master planning to ecosystem services.
Juno Hollyhock, Executive Director
Learning through Landscapes
Testimonials
Annie has provided an excellent service to Healthwatch Oxfordshire. She has built a robust network of relationships for us with other third sector organisations in the county, and this has enabled her to generate a range of excellent projects. As a freelancer she has formed excellent and entirely appropriate relationships with the permanent staff team – judging when to engage alongside the in-house team, and when to step back with real skill.
Rachel Coney
Chief Executive
Healthwatch Oxfordshrie
Publications
I have written for numerous journals, from Resurgence to Primary Education and Nursery World. I have spent many years on the steering groups of the National Early Childhood Forum, and speak about Routes to Resilience at conferences nationally and internationally.