• help you work out what you want to say and how to say it
• write the copy with your input
• edit your efforts
• turn facts and figures into easy-to-understand tables and graphics
• bring your messages to life with simple, effective design
• liaise with printers to ensure the finished product lives up to your expectations
• advise on promoting your publication among your members, wider public and the media.

Some samples

E-newsletters, such as VSAConnect’s E-nius for returned volunteers, are part of Pat’s VSA work. He also edits the Hard Yards Herald newsletter for construction company LT McGuinness.

For seven years he has edited the annual Employment Agreements: Bargaining Trends and Employment Law Update, for Victoria University’s Centre for Labour, Employment and Law.

As a volunteer in Timor-Leste 2013-2015, his work ranged from editing and designing Dear Timor-Leste, Poems of Hope, a booklet of poems by Australian poet Cameron Simmons, to showing Timorese workmates how to produce annual reports in English and Tetun.

'Pat makes the job a smooth, trouble-free operation with his
efficient turn-around of documents. He has improved the
publications' design to give them a professional and sharp look.'
- Sue Ryall, manager,
Centre for Labour, Employment and Law, Victoria University

'Gorgeous newsletter, Pip - thank you. Once again you have hit the nail
on the head’.
- Susan Iversen, Karo Data Management director

'Thanks again so much for stepping in to do this. You've done an 
amazing job at such short notice.' 
- Sahra Grinham, Rhubarb PR