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Claire is a freelance trainer with practical and management experience in touring educational theatre, youth theatre and community arts settings.  Claire has delivered projects in schools, pupil referral units, youth centres, and with young people with experience of the criminal justice system.

Claire is General Manager of Peer Productions, a unique youth arts training company specialising in education through theatre and film.  Over the past 5 years they have worked with over 40,000 young people across the South East of England, engaging them in high quality drama and film projects, including educational productions on social issues such as teenage pregnancy and alcohol misuse.  Claire is experienced in fundraising, project planning and partnership working, and previously worked at Harrow Arts Centre as Arts Programme Officer, focusing on engaging diverse audiences with a varied programme of arts and culture.

She read Drama, Community Theatre and Media at Winchester University, and is now in the final stages of a Masters in Cultural and Arts Management there.  Claire is also a trained Arts Award Adviser and an Arts Award Trainer for the Bronze and Silver awards. In 2010 she graduated from the Common Purpose 'InsideOUT' leadership training course.