Sue Duchesne - NVQ Assessment Centre Manager
Sue Dechesne, a trained nursery nurse and qualified NVQ assessor, has successfully carried on learning, building her qualifications and taken control of her career journey. She has relished challenges...
Tina Lynch - Venue Manager
Tina Lynch is venue manager at The Pierian Centre in Bristol. She describes how she found a love of French and the experience of her French degree and excitement at the unpredicability of a year in France....
Jenna Cain - Activity Instructor Group Leader
Jenna is an Activity Instructor at an outdoor activity centre in France. She was sitting at her desk one day and decided to search for job opportunities abroad, she decided on bar work in France at an...
Elaine Watson - Training Coordinator
Elaine Watson is the training co-ordinator business support officer for Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. She organises and delivers training to local businesses about employing disabled people. She...
June Burrough - Event Organiser/ Conference and Banqueting Assistant Manager/ Facilities Manager
Inspired by time with an Aboriginal community, June Burrough founded the Pierian Centre in some way to instill "the same sense of privilege in other people." She believes that "things that appear impossible...
Pete Millington - Oral History Project Researcher
Pete Millington works part-time at the Birmingham Disability Research Centre on an oral history project. He also works for a Coventry disability charity, and does some editing for local magazines. He trained...
Roger Brockhurst - Herb Production Worker
Roger Brockhurst is a Herb Production Worker. "I didn't really have any idea what I wanted to do." With few qualifications Roger found a job through a friend. He says "I didn't really care. But now...
Tracey Bennett - Employment & Training Officer
Tracey Bennett is an employment and training officer at Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. She left school at fifteen because of bullying, and went to college to do GNVQ Health & Social Care. She doesn't...
Chloe Tiley - Spanish Speaking Administrator
Chloe Tiley is the Administrator at the PGL activity centre, La Fosca, in Spain. She speaks Spanish fluently as she was brought up in Tenerife. The turning point in her career was deciding not to develop...
Lexine McAulay - Chief Instructor
Lexine McAuley is the Chief Instructor at Caythorpe Park, a PGL activity centre. Her first job was in a hotel. After a particularly grueling day she realised she didn't want her future to consist of "working...
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