A versatile writer-freelancer with 30 years’ experience supplying copy needs in the Non-Governmental Sector and 4 years commercial writing for private companies and individuals. Experience covers issue based articles related to human rights and children in poverty, information and publicity materials including: newsletter and journal writing, editing and proofreading, information and publicity materials, leaflets, brochures, pamphlets, flyers, and web content. More commercial writing has been for a range of companies and individuals on web content, e-zine articles, SEO enriched blogs, brochures and individual CVs.
Private: Four years writing for corporate sector including: • Web content for the oil construction industry, education and migration, private legal and notary services, health supplements, and international couriers. • E-zine articles for marketing purposes covering short weekend breaks, perfume, weddings, reproduction furniture, pets, rubbish collection, special beds and mattresses, children’s clothing, and many more. • Ongoing blogs for companies in: air compression, leafletting, online rug selling. • Product descriptions for a banner company and for a luxury car hire firm • Ghost writer for a short book on aromatherapy candles.
NGO: Thirteen years for Amnesty International UK - an international human rights organisation • Relevant copy writing on information leaflets, fundraising and marketing materials, and brochures. Seven years for Y Care International - overseas development organisation working with children and youth, • Relevant copy for articles on child development programmes for journal, editing submitted articles, general information leaflets, direct-marketing appeals for money. Eleven years at The International Children’s Trust – an overseas development organisation working with children, their families and communities • Relevant copy for articles in regular newsletters incorporating rights issues for children in poverty, editing submitted articles, information leaflets, fundraising materials, website content.
My interests: reading, yoga, cycling, gym, film club member, cooking, improving my Spanish, travel anywhere in the world.
Website copyThe client needed three pages for her new website which was to sell a particular health supplement. We discussed her needs and decided she needed professionalism and accessibility. The Home page is displayed here.
The client required 150 descriptions of different luxury cars available to hire. Aston Martin, Mercedes, Jaguar, Porsch, Lamborghini, to name a few, all had to a have simple and stylish treatment within about a 150 to 180 word count.
ArticleThe rug company wanted a regular blog to attract potential customers to their website. They needed SEO on certain words, which we agreed on. Topics for rugs were their colour, their pile or their size and shape. The displayed blog is for brown rugs.
Website copyThe company required webpages for a main website and a subsidiary website, and a news piece about its launch. I have attached the news piece.
– the human face of domestic and international freight and shipping services, outperforming others in terms of speed, cost and efficiency.
The client needed 5 pages of web copy describing the business, all its services, its uniqueness and benefits.
