Gill Pavey
Trading as: Wordhouse Writing Services
Granard, Co. Longford
Mobile phone: 087 3687489
Professional memberships
Full member, AFEPI
Member, Mediterranean Editors and Translators
Educational qualifications
MSc Finance, Leicester University
Training and professional development
PerfectIt Pro Beginners and Advanced (Cadman Training), Editing with Word (CIEP) Copywriting Apprentice (IDEAS-Right) – includes proofreading, Word Styles and Templates (Cadman Training) Copy-editing Techniques (CIEP), Diploma in Proofreading (NCC Ireland).
Experience
I was a proofreader and subeditor for specialist sports magazines and newspapers in the 1970s, more recently deputy editor of a specialist hobby magazine (2009-2011).
I have been working freelance since 2011.
Services offered
Proofreading; copy-editing; copywriting.
Media
Business reports, government, NGO and university material, academic journal papers, newsletters, websites, marketing material.
Subject areas
Social sciences, the arts, leisure and hospitality, finance/accountancy and management, the natural world/green issues, medicine. Specialist in EU Commission agencies and European Parliament work, and ESL-authored documents.
Clients include
Current major clients include FSC (Forest Stewardship Council): global, HQ Bonn, Germany; Istituto per la ricerca sociale: Milan and Bologna, Italy; SMC Media: Milan, Italy; various translation agencies in the Netherlands and Lithuania.
Examples of work undertaken
FSC, proofreading reports, articles and press releases;
Istituto per la ricerca sociale, editing/proofreading reports for European Commission agencies and the European Parliament;
SMC Media, copy-editing papers for the European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine and similar work;
Editing commercial documents and journal papers via translation companies in the Netherlands and Lithuania on a wide range of subjects.
Copywriting 50 web pages for a Dutch online recruitment agency.
Additional information
Winner of the Theo Paphitis ‘Small Business Sunday’ award in 2013