Thea Platt

• Working in private practice offering mindfulness and compassion-based psychotherapy, supporting a range of clients with trauma and mental and emotional distress. Work with young adults and adults

• Individual and Team Coaching and mentoring for leaders of social enterprises, small and medium ethical businesses, community businesses, charities, creatives and the public sector.
• Typical areas I work in include: values-led leadership, team dynamics, organisational culture, vision, strategy, project management, identifying skill gaps and how to fill them, identifying training needs, building your dream team, applying a growth mindset, wellbeing in the workplace, boosting confidence and self esteem.
• Consultancy services supporting social enterprises, small and medium ethical businesses, community businesses and charities in a range of areas including management, recruitment and HR, wellbeing at work, organisational systems and processes, organisational culture, creativity and vision and strategy.

• Management: Managing and supporting staff team and office; Nurturing and supporting new & existing projects, initiative's & groups including mentoring community leaders
• Project Management: Supporting activities, initiative's and emerging projects. Offering targeted support to ensure they are financially secure and well managed and resourced
• Strategy: Working alongside TTT Core group and Trustees to develop and implement the overarching strategy for TTT.
• Fundraising: Developing and delivering a fundraising plans to realise multiple income streams to cover central activities and to support specific projects. Writing funding bids. Reporting to funders.
• Organisational structure and wellbeing: Running and implementing a programme to improve the organisations governance and culture.
• Partnership working: Regular communication and liaison with local stakeholders (including community organisations, local business, local authorities, landowners, schools and local residents).

• Project Management: Designing, delivering and monitoring project plans and budget (£20,000), setting project targets and milestones, managing and monitoring project data.
• Designing and delivering community engagement programme, including; planning, coordinating, managing and publicising public events, workshops and surveys targeted at a variety of audiences.
• Analysing consultation data to draw up visions, objectives and policies.

• I led the creation and launch of a completely new organisation, including developing the organisations vision and mission, objectives and delivery plan, overseeing the branding, finding and setting up premises, registering with the charity commission, building a Trustee Board and recruiting a new staff team. The organisation continues to thrive today.

• The Mapping Local Food Webs Project is part of the Making Local Food Work Programme (supporting community food enterprises).
• Project development and management: Played a key collaborative role in designing and implementing delivery plans and strategic planning process, reviewing progress against project milestones and targets, managing evaluations, co-managing budget (£100,000 over 5 years). reporting to funders quarterly and annually (Big Lottery).
• Evaluation: Acting as key point of contact for evaluators (Plymouth University), setting evaluation aims and objectives, holding regular progress meetings, coordinating observations at key project events, providing team with monitoring data.
• Recruiting, training and supporting teams of staff (8 Regional Coordinators) and volunteers (network of over 400 volunteers)
• Media: Working closely with our Head of Communications and Media Officer to develop media strategies.
• Worked with the Sunday Times on exclusive feature published March 2011 (featuring Totnes.) Appeared in a fifteen-minute feature on ITV's Countryfile (March 2011) which profiled our work in Totnes and Yeovil.
• Regular interviews with journalists from local and regional press and radio (including the Countryside Life magazines) to profile research.
• Planning and delivering two national conferences with high profile speakers on local food in collaboration with Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
• Planning, presenting and facilitating at over 30 local launch events, workshops and seminars around the country, including 3 events in Totnes, Devon.
• Producing Field to Fork Food Webs Reports: Playing a key role in analysing data and in the writing, design, production, publishing, dissemination and launch of 10 research reports based on studies of local food systems across England (including Totnes).
• National partnership working: Member of National Making Local Food Work Project Management Group: Collaborating on National events and seminars, sharing contacts and information, promoting and supporting each others work, developing new strands of work.
• Local partnership working: Regular communication and liaison with local stakeholders (local policy makers, retailers, producers, community groups, activists and volunteers in mapping locations) to ensure their involvement in project planning, local events, research verification, report publication and implementing recommendations.

PIDEC is part of the Pestalozzi International Village Trust and promotes Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education.

• Managing Community Garden: Providing training and support in food growing to students, schools and community groups and volunteers including disadvantaged children and adults.
• Managing development of new educational garden and low-impact building: Working with One Planet Living Directors (WWF) and design team of architects and planners, achieved full-planning permission for scheme: Personally recruited support of Grand Designers award winner ‘Ben Law' (eco-builder) to raise project profile.
• Planning and facilitating CPD days for local teachers in Global Citizenship and Environmental Education.