Tessa Bannister

Community-focused marketing professional with experience planning and delivering events, building brand partnerships, and driving engagement across wellness, health and social impact organisations. Track record of growing member communities through workshops, events and collaborations with external brands, alongside coordinating campaigns across social, email and web. Comfortable managing budgets, KPIs and multiple stakeholders in fast-paced, people-facing environments, and confident representing a brand at events and in partner relationships.

Drawn to Padel Social Club's blend of sport, social experience and community, and keen to bring that same energy into building its events programme.

Studio Operations Manager - GoodGood Studio - Wimbledon

(2026-02)

• Planned and delivered wellbeing workshops and community events, coordinating promotion, logistics and on-the-day delivery
• Built partnerships with premium wellbeing brands including Adidas, Blueair and Lactose to elevate studio events and community initiatives
• Grew the active studio community to 228 members, including 28 new members since joining, through engagement-led events and communications
• Achieved a client mix of 58% new and 42% returning members, reflecting strong community-building and retention
• Monitor membership, attendance and engagement KPIs to inform event planning and business decisions
• Coordinate studio communications and newsletters to promote events and drive footfall

Senior Service Coordinator - Brook - Youth Wellbeing & Sexual Health

(2022-09 - 2024-09)

• Contributed to planning and delivery of campaign activity and events, such as Sexual Health Week, HIV Awareness, Pride Month etc.
• Coordinated multi-agency wellbeing programmes, working with NHS organisations, local authorities, schools and voluntary sector partners, with contracts valued over £1 million
• Produced email newsletters and campaign communications, and monitored performance data and KPIs for reporting
• Built and managed relationships with a wide range of external stakeholders and partner organisations

Sales & Partnerships Officer - Abianda

(2022-01 - 2022-09)

• Developed relationships with commissioners, charities and statutory organisations, representing the organisation at meetings, events and stakeholder forums
• Created and scheduled social media content and produced monthly email newsletters to support brand awareness using tools such as Canva, Buffer, TikTok, Instagram, Meta and MailChimp
• Supported updates and redesign of the organisation's website (Wix)

Founder & Content Lead - The Salty Social Club

(2024)

• Plan, create and schedule short-form video and social content across Instagram and TikTok, adapting to trends and audience insights
• Manage brand presence and website content independently using Wix

Digital Marketing Intern & Volunteer Coordinator - Fumble

(2021-09 - 2022-01)

• Supported day-to-day management of social media channels and produced email newsletters
• Coordinated a remote volunteer team and supported campaign planning and delivery

Marketing & Events Intern - Counterpoints Arts (Refugee Week UK)

(2018 - 2018)

• Supported promotion and delivery of a national events programme, assisting with on-the-ground event logistics
• Worked with external contributors and partners on content and communications for the campaign

MA - Gender & Development - University of Sussex (2020-09 - 2021-06)

BA - Social Anthropology - University of Manchester (2016-09 - 2019-06)