Background
In September 2011 a lady found this site and asked him to get her family's story in a newspaper. He has been writing for the Sunday Express ever since.
He began his career as a features writer for Mental Health Today in 2007. He has remained writing for Pavilion ever since, now under Dan Parton and writing for Learning Disability Today as well. He writes for Royal College of Nursing Publications in learning disabilities and mental health. He has published one off pieces in a number of publications in this time - see portfolio for details.
In early 2011 he began a stint professionally blogging for Tree.com in the US. Keen to break new markets, he now has a foothold in the US feature writing market, even after Tree.com restructured, ditching all their bloggers in July.
If you have a story in health or social affairs contact him via rs@richardshrubb.co.uk (copy and paste to email program)
Follow Richard on Twitter #Shrubberz
Activism
It began with Greenpeace at Southampton Institute in the mid 90's. Direct action at the Mururoa protests, including invading the Prime Minister's country residence at Chequers when Jacques Chirac (invited, unlike CND and Greenpeace...) visited John Major. Leafleted the French Amassador's garden party on Bastille Day that year too. All fun...
Richard has been a member of a number of parties depending on personal loyalty to local members.
Politicised by being discriminated against for his mental health, Richard joined the media campaign Shift Speaker's Bureau in 2006 to speak out about the stigma being as ruinous to one's life as the mental illness stigmatised.
Moving to Weymouth in 2010 Richard got involved in the AV Referendum campaign, supporting Fair Votes for Dorset. He is now Membership Secretary of the organisation Dorset 4 Democracy that emerged after the kicking in the referendum.
From activism to mainstream politics, Richard is now running for Weymouth West as a Liberal Democrat, hoping to win in May 2012. He takes the view that the Lib Dems are the milk in the Tory coffee - black coffee has a well known effect on the bowel, as would a pure Tory government.
Richard is a multimedia professional
He trained as a broadcast journalist, is a keen photographer and writes professionally in print. If there is anything on this site you feel he may do similarly for you, email or phone him.
Contact
Call ++44 07970013889
Email rs@richardshrubb.co.uk
Tweet #Shrubberz