Founder and Managing Director of The Enterprise Centre with over 25 years experience of enterprise and education both in the design and delivery of a wide range of capacity building projects for the public sector. Alison is passionate and focused on innovative and practical client led enterprise development projects. She is the author of the only QCA approved stand alone Project Management Qualification and designer of a number of other enterprise accreditations at level 2, her work was recently commended at The National Leadership Conference. She is a influential player and designer of new initiatives for enterprise delivery at all levels. Alison is committed in building neighbourhoods and as such all the projects she is involved with have a community capacity building underlying theme.
Allan Lawrence has previously worked as the International Business Manager at Blackburn College, Walsall College and Hopwood Hall College, where he worked to recruit international students,and develop Joint Education Projects with partners from around the world achieving income targets in excess of £1m for each college. Allan has also operated as a consultant in the field of education and training and has worked as a lecturer and manager in further and higher vocational education for over 30 years. He was the Project Manager at Salford University for the project to establish the Salford Innovation Park.
At Salford University, he specialised in progammes of training that developed entrepreneurship, creativity and business skills. He has been involved in projects with Salford and Manchester based small business NGO’s and Manchester’s growing social enterprise sector.
Co-founder of the Naturally Enterprising project and Trustee of The Enterprise Centre, Dannielle is a Fully Qualified teacher and ICT Leader at Heap Bridge Primary School. She brings educational experience as well as a passion for outdoor learning and equine therapy. Her knowledge on child safeguarding and all other related protocols and practices are up to date and she passes this on to the rest of the organisation.
A Senior Manager at Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council focusing on economic development, business and enterprise, employment, skills and training, external funding, European policy and regeneration. Jonathan is enthusiastic about getting people back to work and contributing to his community. He currently manages the operations of Get Oldham Working. They have created close to 3,000 employment related opportunities, including 1,500 jobs, 450 apprenticeships and 190 paid placements. His youthful wisdom, networks and role of responsibility as a public servant brings strategy and focus to The Enterprise Centre.
Dave is a successful small business owner who has an array of experiences spanning 40 years working with trainees and apprenticeships from start to completion. Using skills he has acquired over many years he now acts as an inspector and assessor of gas safety across Greater Manchester on behalf of a few major installers of heating services. Dave brings a practical yet sometimes wild card approach to the board with his diverse experiences in life and business.
Paul is one of two directors of The Northern Social Investment Group and an associate of The Enterprise Centre. He has an MA degree in Social Enterprise and is qualified as a Corporate Treasurer in Public Finance, so has a solid technical training relevant to social investment. His particular interests include risk management and impact measurement systems, and the use of these in Outcomes Related Contracting. He has twenty years experience in the social enterprise and charitable sectors.
Founder and Chief Executive of Square 1 studio Oldham and The Workshop Leader. Sam has twenty years’ experience working with and transforming the behaviour of disadvantaged youth in Greater Manchester. He uses multimedia projects to engage his audience and coaches them using a variety of techniques and therapies in order that they can achieve personal success. His particular interest is using creative writing techniques to create verse which he then uses to produce songs or monologues as a testimony for life. Sam is also involved with The Enterprise Centre co- delivering on The Step Up to Success course.
Patrick has recently graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Sound and Video Technology. Since his graduation and with help from The Enterprise Centre he has founded a digital media company – PatrickRichardMedia. It works with a range of organisations and individuals helping them to create and transform their digital media portfolio and online platforms. He is also a Director of a 3D modeling and printing website, CadPad. With his insightful knowledge of the modern world and current trends, he keeps The Enterprise Centre’s online platforms up to date whilst also creating their digital media content.
Steve has a very wide ranging portfolio of social enterprise support and development. A qualified Social Enterprise Business Adviser and with an MBA, he has worked in drug and alcohol services, disability, international development, construction, catering, recycling and many other areas. He has worked as sole entreprenuer, business partner and broker in developing more than a dozen social businesses both in the UK and in Africa. Among his many successes is the establishment of Inklusive CIC, a social enterprise ink company which has grown in its frst three years to a high six-figure turnover social enterprise, formed from both private and social investment.
