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September
2007
Tom Hampson is Editorial
Director at the Fabian Society where he commissions and edits all Fabian
publications and is Editor of the quarterly journal The Fabian Review.
Tom joined the Fabians in January 2006 and continues to run his own media
and public affairs consultancy The Press Company, specialising in social
issues clients. He was previously Media Communication Manager for Sarah
Brown at Hobsbawm Macaulay and served as Communications Manager at the
think tank Demos from 1997 to 2000. Tom has recently written on equality
and human rights, education policy, disability, international development,
and the renewal of the British left.
2002 to present
Media communications consultant and graphic designer specialising in third sector and
public sector clients.
In
2002 I set up The Press Company, a small London-based communications and design
consultancy which allows me to work freelance for third sector and public
sector clients.
I
am currently working part-time at the Employers' Forum on Disability
on public affairs. I have just finished producing a media communications strategy for the Foyer
Federation, and writing communications strategies for Nurse Aid and for the Groves
Trust.
In
the last few months I have worked on scriptwriting for the Forum's National Event, and for RADAR’s Human Rights People of the Year Awards and MP Dialogues
launch.
I
have also recently produced a series of brochures for the legal charity LawWorks,
run a re-branding project for the Hackney
Community Law Centre, re-launched a Unesco
dramatic arts magazine, and designed the marketing materials for Impolite
Nation, an international conference on British identity in Oxford.
Since
2002, I’ve worked on a wide range of other projects, including:
Designing
the 2004 Annual Review for the Solicitors
Pro Bono Group, a charity which works to increase the delivery of free
legal services to communities in need and people in poverty.
Working
for the Hackney Learning Trust
on media strategy for the Mossbourne Community Academy, a school designed
by the Richard Rogers Partnership, which opened in September 2004.
Providing
strategic media consultancy for The
Sorrell Foundation, which works to promote design in the public
services, putting them in touch with the education and design press both
local and national.
Providing
long-term strategic and contact advice to RADAR.
The Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation is a national
organisation of and for disabled people.
Producing
the campaign literature of a front-runner in the race for the Labour Party
parliamentary candidacy for the
Islington South constituency.
Running
a five-hour memorial event at
the South Bank centre for around 300 guests with a dozen speakers
including government ministers, senior journalists and academics.
Setting
up a press office and longer-term follow-up support for The Enabling Partnership - a consortium of disability charities
including the Enham Trust, Holiday Care and Shopmobility.
In
2004 I also studied typography and graphic design at the London
College of Printing, having completed a course in graphics at St Martin’s College of Art and Design.
2000 to
2002
Media Communications Manager at Hobsbawm Macaulay
Communications.
Ran the press and media communications section of HMC for Sarah
Brown, managing around twenty clients.
These included social issues-based client accounts such as:
The planning of the Islamic Society of Britain’s Islam Awareness
campaign in the aftermath of 11 September;
The publicity for the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Independent
Inquiry into the treatment of children with heart defects, especially
those with Down’s Syndrome;
Media contacts and events work at the King’s
Fund health think tank;
The launch and publicity for The Runnymede Trust’s Future of
Multi-Ethnic Britain report, chaired by Lord Parekh;
Worked on a diverse range of other arts and media-based client accounts
such as: media advice for the advertising agencies BMP DDB and Saatchi
& Saatchi, and work for Time Magazine, The Royal
Shakespeare Company and The West Yorkshire Playhouse.
1997 to 2000
Communications Manager (1999 to 2000) and Press officer (1997 to 1999)
at the political think tank Demos.
Worked for Demos during a very exciting time after the 1997 general election. Had sole responsibility for press and media communications, during which time Demos published around fifty high-profile reports and ran a similar number of events requiring national print and broadcast media management. Demos gained a widespread reputation for its good media relations.
Handled a very varied output, including
such areas as: the 're-branding' of Britain’s identity, modernising the
monarchy, social exclusion, disability rights, housing, race, lifelong
learning, teacher training, creativity in the classroom, the future of
modern technology, new feminism, and broadcasting.
Also ran media for longer-term projects such as the Real Deal – a
collaboration with Save the Children and Centrepoint to draw up policy
proposals with disadvantaged young people – and CreativeNet, an online
project on the teaching of creativity, run with the
Design Council. Was also responsible for Demos’ new media and Internet
strategies.
1997
Four months’ internship at The Independent newspaper writing for
the home news desk and at the parliamentary lobby with a cuttings file of
over fifty by-lined pieces. This was followed by one month
sub-editing news pages and working on dummy issues in the run-up to the
re-launch of the newspaper.
1996 to
1997
Internship at Newsweek magazine’s Paris-based European bureau
working for the European Bureau Chief, Chris Dickey. Alliance Français
French diploma.
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge. Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.
Worked particularly on 20th Century British poetry, American literature,
and Irish playwrights.
Editor of Cambridge arts magazine, Broadsheet.
Trinity College Labour Party representative.
Crown Woods comprehensive school, Eltham, London, and Thomas Tallis comprehensive school, Kidbrooke, London.
