New business venture offering an exclusive loft apartment in Castlefield, Manchester and stylish space in a Georgian terrace in Canonbury in Islington, North London for which we can also provide catering.Check out the new website www.northonecomfort.com - coming soon - for full short term let availability on this and other properties as well as our private catering offering. We've catered for up to 120 (for Manchester International Festival 2013), private parties up to 70, as well as dinners in people's homes, for Liverpool Cricket Club and a number of other exclusive events for private clients. Perfect for small family get togethers, anniversaries or intimate reunions, exclusive business meetings and pretty much any other celebration. We'll offer you a range of gutsy menus mainly around North African/Mediterranean themes that you won't forget in a hurry. And we put on a mean barbecue, too. People say our sourdough bread is pretty good, too. You can rent the Manchester apartment, a room in the Islington house, or the whole property (sleeping up to 8-10). And, if you want, with any combination, you can have the whole kit and caboodle catered for with food that's organic, free range and foraged where possible and made for you with passion and our commitment to quality. We can't quite guarantee you'll have a good time, but we'll do our darndest to make sure you do. Oh, and when the weather suits, in London you can eat in what we're pretty sure is Islington's only garden orchard. Really.The properties are currently listed on Airbnb if you'd like to see photos, check availability and prices etc. Search for Manchester city centre, exclusive use properties, and for Islington: London, Islington (under neighbourhoods), room only.Drop us a line if you want to find out morePhil and Chris

Work involves external partnership and consortium building, resource procurement and bid development across a range of local economic development functions including education and training, business and employment services.

Head of Business and economic development. Led team responsible for Council's 'Open for Business' agenda, ensuring that it was as responsive as possible to private sector priority issues and concerns - including establishing enhanced Lambeth Enterprise Board as the key private sector partnership in the borough. Led on Lambeth Economic Development Strategy and Economic Assessment 2011. Responsible for establishing a suite of business support programmes including major programme of social enterprise initiative, including new Lambeth Credit Union; small business Loan Fund; public sector supply chain development; early stage Business Improvement District (BID) feasibility and Lambeth Business Awards, the borough's premier annual business promotion event.

Responsible for St Helens' Community Based Economic Development function, including the £6M Merseyside Objective 1 Pathways programme in the town's poorest neighbourhoods; delivery of New Deal 18-24 for the unemployed, Voluntary Sector and Environmental themes and a range of other local labour initiatives; social enterprise development.

Voluntary sector development across County of Greater Manchester. Leading role in the development of Voluntary Sector North West - the first regional voluntary sector network in England; Consultancy development programme to train specialist voluntary sector management consultants. Led on GMCVO's business plan on behalf of the Director

Senior Lecturer in Community and Youth Work

Management and devlopment of three community-based adventure playgrounds, a homelessness project Doorstep and a mobile creche, Playbox