Services
A little about what I do.
And what if you can’t write?
What’s the worst thing that could happen? If you’d have asked me on 9 January it would have been not finishing the London Marathon in April. Not raising enough money for The Calvert Trust. I couldn’t imagine what would happen on 10 January. Or how, six months later, life could be so different. So here […]
“No-one died, no-one is in prison…”
“I don’t get what the big deal is… you write for a living… they are just words…” Explaining the excruciating pain of sharing your own words, rather than words that someone else commissions, ‘edits’ and pays for, is difficult. Commissioned words are a transaction. A business deal. I want them to be good. But if […]
Painting and Poetry
For 25 years I have been burning poetry. Writing words and then setting fire to them. A form of literary self-harm. A few weeks ago, several things came together over the course of a weekend, which put an end to the burning. I spent an evening at The Theatre by the Lake, in Keswick, listening […]
Testimonials
“Tara brings energy, a creative mind and great experience and contacts to her role supporting the work of the Community Foundation. Our campaigns and press events have had consistently good coverage since working with her.”
- Andy Beeforth OBE, Cumbria Community Foundation
“Since starting to work with Tara we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of column inches of copy that’s been generated for Rather Be Cycling. Tara’s professionalism, contacts and a fresh and outside view are at the heart of that.”
- Gav McDonald, Rather Be Cycling
“Tara is not short of original ideas, fantastic contacts and intelligent ways of achieving the desired result. Without her input our project would have been a moderate success, with her input it was an outstanding success and for that the club is eternally grateful.”
- Michael Webster, Treasurer, Threlkeld Cricket Club