Helen Carter is an award-winning journalist who was The Guardian’s correspondent in the North for almost 15 years covering everything from serial killings to a man who turned his canal boat into a German U-boat. She is now a journalist at the BBC and likes the theatre, cats (small c) and skiing.

Helen has worked in regional papers since finishing sixth form college in 1989 where she first began writing about the arts and reviewing amateur dramatics, in between interviewing sweet couples about their golden weddings and attending parish council meetings.

Helen pledges two hours of copy editing and/or proof reading (around 2,000 words) free of charge. For businesses, students, academics, cultural organisations, community groups and creative writers, she can check and edit reports, theses, funding applications, research proposals, and advertising copy.