Welcome

Sean has over 25 years experience with social action and historical issues through work, membership of organisations and through personal research and writing.

For an informal discussion contact: sean.creighton@btinternet.com  or telephone 020 8640 2014

Sean also runs History and Social Action Publications

Latest publication April 2008

Vauxhall and the Invention of the Urban Pleasure Garden - P J Corfield

Sean is a freelance worker trading as:

Agenda Services:
Practical Projects & Consultancy in Social Action and Heritage Project Development
Organisational Support, and Research

For latest news see below

Are you looking for an experienced person as a project worker or consultant:

  • to cover for a member of staff on sick leave
  • to undertake a research, policy review, development or heritage project
  • to organise a seminar or conference and produce a report
  • to undertake an organisational review
  • to support a co-ordinating or umbrella group
  • to facilitate co-operative learning and training with Committee
    members, staff, users or local residents

The work may be for a day, a week, a month or longer.

Sean uses a practical approach to working in which action and policy are integrated parts of the same process.

Sean's Key Skills & Experience

• Worker and activist in the community and voluntary sector used to responding to rapidly changing circumstances and policies.
• Track record of seeing the links and making connections between different policy areas.
• Provide integrated administrative, information and research support, and of project management.
• Self-motivated and organised.
• Work co-operatively with people in staff teams, in forums and partnership organisations.
• Wide range of experience in action research, analysis, information dissemination, written briefings, facilitation, public speaking and representing organisations at all levels.

Recent Project Activity has included:

Development & Management Worker for Riverside Community Development Trust (part-time October 2006 – 31 July 2008)
Joint organiser of RCDT, Lady Margaret Hall Settlement Push the Envelope Further event on the challenges facing the arts communities in Vauxhall and Kennington and proposals for an Artisans School and Arts & Crafts Museum (July 2007)
Archival Mapping & Research Officer, Tyne & Wear Remembering Slavery Project (December 2006-October 2007)
ECo-ordinator, North East Slavery & Abolition Group
Advisor to Endz 2 Da Hood youth project at Alford House exploring aspects of the influence of US on British youth culture
Historical advisor to Jack Drum Theatre youth group play 'Sharp Practice' on slavery and abolition (County Durham) and linked exhibition
Leading walks in Kennington & Vauxhall at Push the Envelope Further event, for Gasworks Gallery and Comic Relief and advising on one for the July 2008 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Conference
Active adviser to researchers on historical projects

For details of his experience and an informal discussion contact:

020 8640 2014
sean.creighton@btinternet.com

LATEST NEWS

Study of Community Buildings in Stockwell. I am undertaking a study of community buildings for Stockwell Partnership.

Transatlantic Slave Trade & Black & Asian Theatre in UK Resources. I helping with background research on aspects of the transatlantic slave trade, on slavery and black themes in British theatre, and on Black and Asian Theatre in Britain for inclusion on the Transatlantic Slave Trade section of Trading Faces Online Exhibition (TFOE).

'Sharp Practice'. Weardale District Council has contracted me to undertake work supporting the exhibition arising from the Jack Drum Theatre play 'Sharp Practice', which I advised on earlier in the year.

Vauxhall Pleasure Gdns Conference 14-16 July. The Conference started with a Concert at the Museum of Garden History. A do-i-yourself walk in the area around the site of the history Gardens was provided to all delegates. I have helped the organiser write it.

North East Slavery & Abolition Group. I completed the third issue of the Group Newsletter in July. It is on the website of Tyne & Wear Archives along with issues 1 and 2: www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk/publications . If you want a copy please email me.

Friendly Society Research Group. It has been a couple of years since it was possible to produce an issue of the Group newsletter. I therefore agreed to do one in Enewsletter format. This is now available (Issue No. 16). It is on the PDF and E Papers section of this website. If you want a copy please email me.

Comic Relief Staff Learning Week. In June I did a talk about and walk around the Vauxhall area and Albert Embankment for a lunch time session during Comic Relief's staff learning week in June. Comic Relief's offices are at 89 Albert Embankment.

Maidstone Prison Arts Festival. I gave a short talk on UK Black History at the Maidstone Prison Arts Festival in June.

Advice and Information. Since May's postings I have given advice and information to a range of researchers on topics such as the Free Labour Produce movement in the 1850s, the Notting Hill Riots in 1958, and Battersea Park Tabernacle.

1807 Commemorated Conference - September 18/19 2008, York. I will be giving a talk on the North East slavery and abolition work at this Conference.

Riverside Community Development Trust. My part-time work with the Trust finished on 31 July.

For earlier News postings in 2008 see News 2008 section