Welcome to the official website of Rachel Broady

Freelance Journalist and workshop facilitator

Rachel works with pupils of all ages delivering tailor-made workshop, using journalism and creative writing. Workshops can be adapted to the demands of the national curriculum, as appropriate, and are developed to help pupils perform better in the workplace and wider society with a focus on teamwork, problem-solving, questioning and debating - and every session ends with a celebration of the work.

Rachel's latest creative project is for Manchester Libraries and the National Year of Reading Wish You Were Here event.

Soap stars, writers, photographers and other celebrities queued up to write postcards from their favourite book.

Here's a postcard from Christopher Eccleston ...

And another by Dave Spikey ...

The rest of the postcards - including Sue Cleaver (Coronation Street's Eileen Grimshaw), Ben Elton, Jenny Eclair, Stephen Lord (Eastenders' Jason Dyer), Maxine Peake, designer Wayne Hemingway and others - can be viewed at www.manchesterreads.org.uk

Rachel has delivered workshops for:

• Manchester International Festival
• Manchester Metropolitan University Writing School
• Aim Higher
• Excellence In Cities
• Higher Futures For You (HF4U)
• Association for Creative Writing and English
• Gifted and Talented
• Tameside’s Shining Stars.
• CUBE (Centre for the Urban and Built Environment)
• Continuing Professional Development

• INSET training

Rachel is also a Creative Agent with Creative Partnerships. 

With over 17 years journalism experience, Rachel’s work has been published in a variety of national, regional and local newspapers, national magazines and websites.

She has worked as a reporter, a feature writer, a news editor, a features editor, a travel writer, a sub-editor and a page designer.

Her workshops for pupils and teachers have been described as “fantastic” and students say they have been inspired to consider a career in journalism and go on to university.