About me

As you’ve probably figured out already, I love Squarespace 💜 I work mainly with non-profits and other freelancers, on projects that do good.

My pronouns are she/her.

Ready for some facts?

Yep, let’s pretend that it’s a school French lesson.

I’m originally from Manchester in the UK, but now live on Vancouver Island, Canada 🍁

I’m based in Port Alberni, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Nuu-chah-nulth people including the Hupačasath and Tseshaht First Nations

I’m still offering my Squarespace web design and training services to folks in the UK, but also taking on more local clients in British Columbia.

I’m a big fan of donuts (and most food to be honest) and would describe myself as vegan-adjacent 🌱 Sustainability is also super important to me and is one of my business values.

I love a good side project, and my latest creation is Happy Work Club, which I’m starting as a community for business owners who see success as more than just making money.

My other loves

When I’m not at my laptop you’ll probably find me in the water. I’m a keen-but-rubbish surfer, swimmer, kayaker and stand up paddleboarder

I live with my husband Roland and our little animal family (we have a dog and two cats) and our beloved Jeep that takes us on adventures!

And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

I’ve had what would politely be called a “portfolio career” 🙈

Having studied French at University and being faced with the big scary world of employment, I did what any normal person would do and I signed up for a Masters in translation. But translation jobs tended to be freelance and back then, that sounded even more terrifying!

So after a brief stint as an estate agent (yes really) I stepped back onto the conveyor belt of life. Of course I had to make sure my degree wasn’t wasted, so I became a teacher and was miserable for two years.

I still loved education and sharing my knowledge, but I’d become increasingly interested in sustainability, so finally I stopped doing the “sensible” thing and listened to my gut instead.

That brought me to six happy years working and volunteering for charities and non-profits, managing training programmes and becoming more and more geekily excited about the role of technology within those organisations.

One day my boss sent me a link to a business sustainability project set up by Richard Branson. It was a very nice-looking website for a 2013 non-profit and I noticed three fateful little words at the bottom: Powered by Squarespace.

By October of the same year, I’d handed in my notice and created my new business website on Squarespace. And the rest, as they say, is history!

I now use my experience from the non-profit world (along with my knowledge of freelance life) to create websites that showcase the businesses and projects that are making a difference in the world!

Want to work together?

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