Northumberland Group Ltd is a group of small, locally owned and managed businesses specialising in the development and refurbishment of property in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear & Newcastle.Residential homes form the core of Northumberland’s developments. These range from smaller 3 or 4 unit sites to larger 50+ unit developments with the individual homes ranging from 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments to Semi-detached and Detached houses with 2 to 5 bedrooms. A small number of commercial units often form part of an overall mixed use development. If local demand and site locations allow Northumberland Group also looks to bring social housing developments forward including supported living and care homes.All our properties, whatever their size, are finished to the highest of standards creating homes people love to live in! Visit out website (www.northumberland.ltd) for further details.

Working as part of the North East Relationship Banking team focusing on trading businesses with a T/O from £6.5m up to £50.0m and additional complex lending solutions where the borrowing requirement is >£2.5m. Broad strength in team covering day to day Money Transmission and Lending needs together with Product Specialists in International Trade, Invoice Finance, Asset Finance, FX, Real Estate, Healthcare and Merchant Services.

As part of the Cumberland Building Society Cumberland Business lends UK wide to a variety of businesses but with a focus on the Tourism and Hospitality sectors and dealing with businesses from Sole Trader to larger Limited companies.With it's Head Office in Carlisle and branches across Cumbria CB has significant visibility in this region though trades UK wide through strong online visibility and long standing relationships with brokers, valuers and other professional introducers.

As from December 2014, GrowthAccelerator and MAS have integrated to become a part of the Business Growth Service. The Business Growth Service brings together all government-backed services for small to medium businesses to create an even more customer-centric and joined up service. GrowthAccelerator helps companies in England with growth potential to achieve their ambitions, we're here to help businesses double in three years by offering access to coaching, financial, innovation and business development experts. GrowthAccelerator is a partnership between private enterprise and government, and we aim to build a community of ambitious, like-minded entrepreneurs and high growth businesses that will drive growth for one another and for the wider economy.The Business Growth Service provides expert, tailored and on-going support to businesses in England with the potential to improve and grow. The service will help businesses across a wide variety of sectors get the advice they need to achieve their business goals. The Business Growth Service consolidates GrowthAccelerator and the Manufacturing Advisory Service and schemes from the Intellectual Property Office (IP Audits) and the Design Council (Designing Mentoring) into a single service. Export support is provided by UKTI and UKEF. The service is closely linked to InnovateUK and the British Business Bank.Business Growth Service will support 20,000 businesses over two years. The businesses it supports are expected to generate £130 million in economic growth and create 28,000 jobs in that time. Make sure you're one of those businesses, contact me today.

Development and sale of marketing space on 250+ portfolio of UK based Geo-targeted Websites. Major focus on Tourism and Hospitality market through our established UKi.guide brand - working with B&B's, Hotels and Accommodation providers is key to our success though we have many members involved in operating Restaurants, Tours, Activities and similar businesses. UKi.guide also provides bespoke custom websites and SEO consultancy for clients.

My career at HSBC covered roles in Retail Banking, Commercial Banking and Head Office functions. The widely varied roles I undertook were based in a number of locations both in the UK and wider afield. During this enjoyable time I gained significant experience in Leadership, Operations, Risk Management, Business Finance and Strategic Management as well as Sales, Sales Management and Business Development. In the UK I worked in many cities in the North East including Newcastle, Gateshead, Gosforth, Morpeth, Whitley Bay & Sunderland in the North as well as Durham, Darlington & Middlesbrough in the South of the Region.Further afield I have worked in Carlisle & Lancaster in the North West and across the M62 corridor from Liverpool to Bradford & Leeds. 2 of my roles with HSBC were overseas secondments and included spending 2 years running the retail side of the British Bank of the Middle East in Bahrain as well as over 2.5 years heading up the Commercial Banking function for the Bank of Bermuda in beautiful, sunny Bermuda itself.