Meet the Team
Emma Linney
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Emma is a registered and licensed Guidance Practitioner with the Careers Development Institute and has been practicing as a Coach, Mentor and Career Guidance worker for over 16 years with a particular focus on personal growth, empowerment and helping people to achieve their potential. Over 16 years leading and managing empowerment and coaching programmes and managing cross-functional teams through re-structures and change. Emma loves music and is a singer song writer, its one of her passions, she is pretty good at it too - click here to listen to her latest track and find out where she is next gigging.
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Trina Roberts
Trina’s key strengths include her engaging style and her ability to nurture innovation, champion entrepreneurial thinking and spark a passion for learning and growth. Trina has hands on experience in people management and business development in private and public sectors and as a Business and Enterprise Lecturer inspiring individuals and organisations to achieve successful change, transformation and growth. Trina has been described as inspirational, one in a million, a life changer, and a good cook. Contact us to see for yourself.
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Rosemary Hooper
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Rosemary has worked in education & training for over 20 years working most recently as Head of the Virtual school for Shropshire. She has worked to support children in care and care leavers to engage and achieve. She understands the role that educational settings have in supporting students with a diverse range of needs including Special Educational Needs. She has experienced first hand how the Aspire programme which is a proactive student centred intervention has positively impacted on young people. She is looking forward to sharing how the Aspire programme can support your students.
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Nicola Smith, Aspire Mentor
Nicola is passionate about young people recognising their own abilities. To address any obstacles that are preventing them from achieving their goals and through the aspire journey grow in confidence and resilience. This will be carried out in a comfortable and considerate environment in order for the young person to get the most out of the programme and each session.
Nicola is also a careers lead in secondary education.
Nick Herbert, Aspire Mentor
Nick worked for the Fire Service as firefighter and officer in charge for 30 years and delivered on a number of intervention programmes, both within and outside of the Fire Service.
After retiring from the Fire Service Nick moved into youth and community work and has worked for a number of years on mentoring projects supporting young people to try and fulfil their potential.
The projects have ranged from using sport and volunteering as a positive diversionary activity to try and steer young people clear of the juvenile justice system to mentoring young people identified as potential NEETS through their transition from secondary education into 16-18 provision.
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Nick gets an enormous amount of satisfaction from working with young people and recognises that what the majority may see as a small step of progress is in fact a massive step forward for the young person concerned.
Rob Clayton, Aspire Mentor
Rob has been working with children and young people in many different capacities for over 20 years, this includes working for Children and Families’ services.
Rob works for Seeds of Change and the ASPIRE programme because he believes in the great power and potential in young people to ‘become the change they want to be’. Rob feels the programme offers him a wonderful opportunity to make a difference and positively impact a young person’s life, who is going through challenge and change, and making an important journey with ‘next steps’ following education’.
In addition to working with the programme, Rob also works as a primary school counsellor and is a counsellor in private practice, working with children, young people and adults.
Meg Dempsey
Operational Lead & Sales Support
Meg is currently a Student at University Centre Shrewsbury,
working towards her Business Management Degree.
She completed work experience for us previously and got to experience some of our resources first-hand. After enjoying it so much, she now works alongside us at Seeds of Change.
Meg is keen to learn more about different aspects of our
business and the industry we operate in. She’s passionate
about helping us continuously improve and build up our
company to reach a wider audience, and work with more
individuals in the future. She believes mentoring is so
inspiring that the more individuals we can reach and
help benefit from our programmes & resources, the better.
Anita Hunter, Aspire Mentor
Anita has worked within the arena of social care and community support in a variety of capacities for over 30 years. She initially started her professional working life supporting adults with acquired brain injuries and their families to adapt to and manage such life changing experiences. Following this, Anita later went on to do children and family work. She has been working consistently with children, young people and families for the last 15 years.
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Anita’s commitment to Seeds of Change and the ASPIRE programme has come about through her direct work, observations and direct personal experiences of many young people and teenagers that she has connected with during her working and personal life. Where for many, life’s challenges have at times felt intensely overwhelming for young people. Anita is focused on supporting people to achieve full and thriving lives going forward. She is passionate about presenting opportunities to young people to enable a platform for bigger thinking, opportunities for limitless potential, exploring all possibilities and being able to see their own unique potential beyond the edge of themselves that is seen. She believes wholeheartedly that when people (of any age) are given space to unravel the layers of themselves without limit or restriction then incredible things happen and wider options are vast and abundant.
Anita is also a professionally qualified counsellor for both adults and young people and is also qualified to practice as an Integrated Attachment Theory Relationship Coach.
Tina Peck, Team PA
Tina has worked in young people's services for many years and has an interest in health and well being, focusing on how sport can have a positive impact on mental & physical health. Tina is also a triathlon coach and has worked with children, young people & adults on a voluntary basis for her local triathlon club. Professionally, she coaches adults one to one, writing training plans for athletes and helping them reach their sporting potential.