She is the current treasurer and former chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) and is a vocal supporter of writers, lobbying through the WGGB, in Westminster and Brussels.
[1] At the age of 16, she joined John Lennon and Yoko Ono for their "Bed-In for Peace" protest in order to interview them for a school paper.
[2] She describes how Lennon sat with her on the floor and wrote out the lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" on a piece of card in large letters so that people could read it as they sang along for a recording of the song.
[3] Lennon gave her the lyrics and they were auctioned in 2008[4][5] Her TV writing career was encouraged by John Cleese who introduced her to radio and television producers.
[6] Renard's Custer's Last Stand Up won the BAFTA for best British Children's Series in 2001.