Elly has co-ordinated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans history month celebrations at Stoke Newington school since 2005. The project has grown from an introductory assembly and a year 7 LGBT music lesson into a whole school initiative through the entire curriculum. Stoke Newington School hosts the Hackney borough LGBT celebrations each February, encouraging and inviting all Hackney schools and organisations to take part.

Elly would now like to share her experiences, resources and successful strategies with other educators nationally to give practical advice on how to make their own schools and workplaces LGBT friendly.

The school has recently been recognised by Ofsted as a centre of best practice for successfully challenging homophobic bullying. Since opening the school as a Diversity Training Centre for Teachers in September 2010, Elly has trained over a hundred teachers and educators nationally: the feedback from the one day course has been 100% excellent.