I'm a BAFTA-winning film editor – having cut over 100 documentary programmes for broadcast television. Now retired, in 2017 I co-founded The Good Grief Project, a UK registered charity dedicated to promoting an understanding of grief as an active and creative process.

In 2011 my partner and I learned the news that our son Josh had died in a road crash in South-east Asia, at which point our lives took on a completely new purpose. With help of a Churchill Fellowship, we travelled to the USA and Mexico meet and film other bereaved parents to discover more about the way people grieve. The result is A Love That Never Dies (75 mins), a remarkable collection of stories of survival following the death of a child.

We continue the work of producing films for the bereavement community. Our latest release, Beyond The Mask, was made entirely during the Covid-19 lockdown and explores many aspects common to both grief and the pandemic – the isolation, a sense of time stopping, the impact on our mental health, mask wearing and the various ways in which we have to adjust to our 'new normal'. We also run Active Grief Weekend retreats for bereaved parents who want to find more creative ways of expressing their grief.