Katie Fewings is Katie graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2000 with a BA in Modern Languages (French, Spanish & Portuguese). After a year teaching English in Barcelona, she returned to Sheffield where she joined the NHS and was responsible for coordinating training programmes for GPs and servicing the recruitment of trainee GPs.

Katie honed her organisational skills over nearly four years as PA to the Director of an internationally renowned firm of architects in London before moving to Brighton and taking up the post of Project Manager at the online ethical travel directory, responsibletravel.com. In this role, she organised the annual Responsible Tourism Awards with partners World Travel Market, The Telegraph, Geographical Magazine and BBC World News, and facilitated a programme to develop and support community based tourism with the Washington NGO, Conservation International.

Katie has a strong interest in issues of sustainability and social responsibility, and has set up her own website, Ethical Weddings (www.ethicalweddings.com) to help couples plan the wedding of their dreams without compromising their values. She also co-founded Our Ethical Network in Brighton to give ethically motivated businesses in the city the chance to meet one another, share common problems and explore business opportunities.

Katie is AMT’s Towns-4-Towns Coordinator and in this role will help towns to share knowledge and best practice from their successful initiatives through face-to-face and online networking.

Katie is on maternity leave from 9 November 2009. If you would like to find out more about Towns-4-Towns, please see towns.org.uk/good-practice or contact the Towns Alive Programme Manager, Debbie McGrath at debbie.mcgrath@towns.org.uk
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