Name: Karen Benjamin
Job Title: Playwork trainer
Qualifications: BA(Hons) Drama and Dance, PGCE, Drama Specialist, A1 Assessor Award/V1 Internal Verifier. Currently studying for a Graduate Diploma in Playwork at University of Gloucestershire. Experience
I initially worked as a professional actress for over ten years in theatre, television and radio, and subsequently established a community theatre company for children, which toured schools, community centres and play schemes. I was also director for several youth theatres in Birmingham. Later I moved to Glasgow and became involved with the city council's children's play sector, running play sessions and eventually taking up the post of senior playworker at Linn Park Adventure Playground for Disabled Children. Part of the post was to train and support playworkers through their NVQs and through this I became an assessor in playwork. Eventually I returned to Birmingham to work for Purple Monster Training and started to deliver the Making Choices programme and playwork training at all levels throughout the Midlands and other parts of the country.
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