Richard is currently helping people make things happen at:

• KARST (UK) - an independent, contemporary art space based in South West England with an international reputation as a test-bed for artists and curators to provoke, disrupt and innovate. Richard is a Board member.

• InspiralLondon (UK) - an artist-led project, working collectively to create a new walking trail spiraling out through London; from Kings Cross, ending (and beginning again) at Gravesend, where Richard is on the Advisory Board.

• Waymarking - a UK organisation creating arts projects for the urban development sector, where he is an Advisor.

Past clients include:

• Arts Council England (UK)

• NESTA - National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (UK)

• British Council (China)

• National Trust (UK)

• Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (UK)

• Harlow Council (UK)

• Harlow Arts Strategy Group (UK)

• The Centre for Arts & Global Leadership (France)

• Global Arts Impact Agenda (France/Switzerland)

• Tract + Touch (UK)

• TheyEatCulture (UK)

• Gibberd Gallery (UK)

• Yorkshire Dance (UK)

• Event International (UK)

• One Plus One (Beijing) Disabled Persons' Cultural Development Center (China)

• Hua Dan (China)

• BEAM - arts, people, places (UK)

• Small Venues Network (UK)

• British Federation of Brass Bands (UK)

• WildWorks (UK)

• The Experience Business (UK)

• DEP Arts (UK)

• and others.

Richard was a board member or advisor with the following teams making things happen:  

• Bedford Creative Arts (UK) - an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation commissioning art for public spaces that directly engages the public through collaboration with artists, where Richard was Chair of the Board of Directors from 2019 to 2023.

• UK New Town Harlow's Be Well:Work Well Strategy Group (part of the Health & Wellbeing Board), of which Richard was Chair.

• ACTIVATE (UK) - an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation leading the initiation, development and sustainability of outdoor arts, dance and theatre opportunities for the people of Dorset, the South West and beyond, where Richard was a member of the Board of Directors from 2017 to 2019.

• Quest South West (UK) - the Outdoor Arts Network in South West England that stimulates surprising collaborations in the public realm, where he was a Board Member (2014 to 2016) and Chair from December 2015 to December 2016.

• Board member, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Arts (now ESEA Contemporary), Manchester (UK) from 2009 – 2013.

• Advisory Board member at Hua Dan (China), an NGO delivering empowerment programmes for migrant women, Beijing/Chengdu (2008 – 2011).

• Mentor for the UK's NESTA National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts' Dream Time programme (2008 – 2010).

Richard co-founded NASA - the UK's National Association for Artists working in outdoor contexts. He created a network for creative producers in Beijing with Li Peng , an independent creative producer working between YuShu (China) and Taipei (Taiwan), with whom Richard also developed commercial models of practice for socially engaged arts and sustainable development experiences..   Between 2002 and 2007, he was a member of the Yorkshire Region Targeted Export Steering Group, Calderdale Development Agency's Economic Development Forum, Calderdale Local Government's Cultural Strategy Working Group, Creative Calderdale Network Steering Group, Curriculum Development Board of Calderdale College’s Cultural Heritage Department and Eureka, the Museum for Children's Gallery Development Advisory Group.