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Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Leading the work of Pembroke and Rye Communications in the North of England

Manchester, United Kingdom/Amsterdam/Nagoya

Spin180 BV is an exciting start-up company, based in Amsterdam, with a Japanese and British staff team, that works to widen horizons and to lower barriers between Japan, the UK and across the European Union - supporting businesses that want to trade and cultural and governmental organisations wanting to forge links.My work involves devising, pitching, producing and marketing high quality Exhibitions and events that develop cultural, tourist and commercial business between Japan, the UK and throughout the EU.We have worked with the Osaka Tourist Board, Kyoto Prefectural and City Governments and Aichi Prefecture. Exhibiting in National Museums in the UK and with a major historical show in Paris. We have worked with major Local Authorities in the UK and local and national authorities in the Netherlands. In 2018 Spin180 BV initiated and helped the Kagoshima Prefectural Governor and his team to visit Camden and Manchester in the UK to sign Pioneering ‘Sister City’ Partnerships with them and to take those Partnerships forward in 2019.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Successfully proposed a Motion calling for the conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the City of Manchester on Nobel Prize winning Professors Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov who discovered Graphene in Manchester.

Positions held:-Liberal Democrat and Opposition Finance SpokespersonMember of the Executive Advisory CommitteeDr Peter Bowers, Chair of the South East Fallowfield Residents' Group based in the Withington Ward in Manchester, recently said of Simon that:-"Simon has recognised very readily the difficulties we have faced in this community and he has understood them.He has added his considerable political skill to our various critiques of planning and licensing applications and spoken with great passion at countless hearings to argue both his points and ours.He has responded with great speed to our many concerns....everything he has done he has done with care, discretion and respect."

Manchester, United Kingdom

Manchester

As Chair I asked for and led the Committee's inquiry into the enforcement of planning regulations and conditions In Manchester.We identified the problems for local communities across the city which flowed from a low level of planning enforcement. We identified the resources needed to significantly improve the situation and successfully made the case to the City Council for the funding to establish a Planning Enforcement Team.My work in securing the development and funding of this new team was highlighted by John Leech MP in a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament in January 2007.

North West Of England

In this job I developed high level event management skills through the successful organisation of the programme and logistics for many political VIP visits including for the Deputy Prime Minister and for other Cabinet Ministers.Two significant examples were the organisation of then Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy's Press Conference on the day of the 7/7 London bombings - Charles had travelled through Tavistock Square that morning - and the devising and delivery of the programme for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's visit to Manchester after the 2011 riots.I have also successfully completed the Liberal Democrats 'Training for Trainers' course and am an accredited Party Trainer. I have delivered media training modules on:-- Media relations as part of a Parliamentary Campaign- Organising VIP visits with case studies- Media Relations for Liberal Democrat Groups running or involved in running Councils and Authorities- Media Relations for Opposition Groups

I worked as a freelance public relations Consultant mainly for Mosscare Housing Association - a large, Manchester-based, housing organisation based in the charitable, not-for-profit sector.I wrote, commissioned photography for and laid out three innovative Annual Reports for Mosscare Housing. This work included devising, developing and working with the staff team to deliver the launch events for Mosscare's pioneering 'Charter for Added Value'.I also led the consultancy work which guided Mosscare to the achievement of their first award of 'Investors in People' status. This involved reviewing and revising all internal communications and policy documents.

South Manchester

I was one of two Deputy Directors of Peterloo Housing Association, a special needs housing provider in South Manchester.I was responsible for all financial and administrative matters, including being Company Secretary, during a period when we grew the organisation from a turnover of around £1 Million to being a £3 Million provider of high quality supported housing for residents with a range of needs which employed a staff team of 70.

For six years I worked on accounts and audits for a wide range of clients including well known northern housing associations Johnnie Johnson Housing Trust and Muir Group Housing.

Diploma In Business Administration

Ba Hons, English And History

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