I am the Primary Schools specialist member of the Education Team (with Louise and Doreen) and have been in Development Education for 20 years and am a founder member of RISC.

We offer a range of services to schools; Enews - a free half-termly bulletin; with primary and secondary versions. Training - practical ideas on how to develop a Global Dimension in your classroom, we currently have funding from the Department for International Development (DFID) which enables us to offer this for free. We also work with a number of Teacher Training Institutions.

The World in Their Hands - a handling collection of artefacts from around the world with related storybooks and teaching packs (soon to be on line). The particular focus for development of the collection for 2004-5 is on Citizenship, the Islamic World and Maths.

The Resource Centre in the World Shop - with over 9,000 titles including teaching packs, children's fiction and non-fiction, and books for adults on social justice and sustainable development. We are currently working in depth with a small number of schools in Berkshire and Oxfordshire as part of a LASER (London and South-East Region) DFID funded initiative. These schools are committed to implementing a Global Dimension across the curriculum, and to disseminating their expertise in the future.

I am also working on an project "The Fabric of Our Lives" to produce exhibitions on 3 textile traditions - Bogolan from Mali, Block-printing from India and Weavings from Guatemala. The first of these will be available for (secondary) schools, museums, galleries and other venues from January 2005.

If you would like more information on any of this work, or would like to support our work through volunteering please email me.