Older People

• Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2008-9. • Creative writing sessions with older people in residential care home (part of the Gloucestershire’s POPPs project), May-June 2008. • Writer in Residence with Oncology Inpatients, Cheltenham Hospital, spring 2008. • Reminiscence workshop with older people in Tewkesbury, January 2008. • Reader in Residence with a group of carers, in association with Gloucestershire Libraries and a Dursley doctors’ surgery, spring 2006. • Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2006-7. • Reader in Residence for Gloucestershire WI Big Read project, October 2005 – June 2006. • Reader in Residence and IT project officer for older people in Gloucestershire, September 2004 – May 2005. • Writer in residence for Age Concern intergenerational project, May – October 2005, working with three age groups, and culminating in a performance at Cheltenham Literature Festival. • Poet in hospitals, Gloucestershire, October 2005 – working with stroke victims, and performing on wards with a saxophonist. • Writer in Residence, Age Concern Gloucestershire, February – October 2004, working with older people • Reader in Residence for the Third Age, Worcestershire, 2002. • Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2008-9. • Creative writing sessions with older people in residential care home (part of the Gloucestershire’s POPPs project), May-June 2008. • Writer in residence for Age Concern intergenerational project, May – October 2005, culminating in a performance at Cheltenham Literature Festival.