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M E N TO R I N G

T E A M

CALL ON US

the rank fellowship

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CONTENTS

Foreward // 2

Thematic Career Index // 3

Mentors // 4

Useful Contacts // 24

FOREWORD

Email. Phone. Facebook. Coffee. Pint.

Your choice.

The people in these pages are available for you to call on in whatever way you like.

We range in age from 20s to 30s. We have widely varied occupations and in-terests and backgrounds. All of us have benefited from being able to call upon others for advice, guidance, and support along the way. And we invite you, in turn, to call on us.

You might be navigating the UCAS process and have questions about applying for a certain subject or university. You could be looking for work experience in a particular industry, or interviewing for internships, or wondering how to make the most of your gap year. Maybe you’re new to the Fellowship and contemplat-ing your first Community Action Placement, and want to ask someone how they dealt with it.

We are not giants. There are many more experienced and more distinguished people you could call upon - they might be friends, family, or other Rank Fellows. We deliberately chose to exclude anyone with a title, an Oscar, or a Nobel Prize from these pages. Instead, you will see other young people still finding their way in the world. You don’t need to try and impress us. And you certainly don’t need to worry that we are too old, too busy, or too important to approach.

We are not too young to have our regrets. Almost always, they’re the things we didn’t do, the opportunities we missed, the questions we never thought (or were too apprehensive) to ask. Often we didn’t know which person to speak to. With this guide, it’s simple. You can talk to any of us.

Max KirbyMentor and Rank Fellow

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Antonia went to Edinburgh University where she studied Spanish. After graduating she moved into broadcast journalism where she worked for an inde-pendent production company that produces docu-mentaries exploring ethical and moral issues.

After her spell in journalism Antonia set up - and to this day continues to run - The Sara Charlton Foun-dation, a grant making charity that combats domestic violence in the UK. Her work includes lobbying and policy work, fundraising and working with grass roots organisations to support as well as implement initia-tives that support victims and raise awareness on the issue.

Antonia is particularly good at careers guidance, and helping people decide what they should study or what industry they should enter after leaving school. Anto-nia also has a experience with setting up initiatives, particularly in the charity sector, and is happy to share her past experiences, good and bad, as well as listen to fears and concerns that inevitably come with execut-ing an idea and decision-making.

THE MENTORSTHEMATIC CAREER INDEX

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ANTONIA PACKARD28

School // Marlborough College

University // Edinburgh

CAP // N/A

Degree // Spanish

Interests // Art, travel, philanthropy

Happy to talk about // Anything, including career guidance and public speaking

CONTACT ANTONIA AT // [email protected]

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Seb is a third year undergraduate student and cur-rently about two thirds of the way through his four year Masters course. He has recently completed in-ternships with a pharmaceutical company, a strategic management group and as a Chemistry researcher. In honest terms, Seb don’t have a definite view about what he wants to do once he finally graduates and is considering joining the armed forces. When not at work, Seb is a keen climber and alpinist, and generally tries to spend as much time abroad as possible. One of the most exciting places he has been to so far is deepest, darkest Russia.

Growing up, Seb travelled around quite a lot, spend-ing extended periods of time in both Denmark and France. As such, he never really felt that he had a con-tinuous point of contact or constant mentor. Instead, Seb had a fantastically diverse group of short term mentors, all mainly informal, and many of whom were friends. Cumulatively, all the little bits of advice that they gave him had a massive, positive effect, and as a result, Seb would be happy to act as a mentor for just about anything, or anyone - and if nothing more than simply someone to bounce ideas off.

Max is on the management team of a corporate fi-nance firm established in 2009. They work with com-panies as well as private equity and hedge funds to advise them on raising capital. After graduating, he started his career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers and subsequently moved to Sweden for two years to work for Klarna, one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies.

Max believes that leaders have the power to change the world for the better, and this is why he is passion-ate about nurturing the leaders of tomorrow as best he can, as well as bringing people together - wheth-er in a commercial, charitable or social context. He particulalry values outdoor activities as a catalyst for building personal relationships, and loves to hike / run / cycle (anything that doesn’t involve him being too co-ordinated!). Furthering his partnership with the Rank charities, Max launched the Rank Outdoor Chal-lenge series in 2012 and the third event last year saw record numbers join.

Max’s mentors, formal and not, have been an incred-ible source of wisdom and support through his life so far. He has been inspired by their goodness and generosity, and he would be only too happy to chat to any Fellows who might find similar support helpful.

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MAX KIRBY28

Happy to talk about // Anything, including finance, interviews and internships

Interests // People, sport, politics

CAP // Prince’s Trust

Degre // History

University // Oxford

School // KCS Wimbledon

CONTACT MAX AT // [email protected]

School // Canford

University // Oxford

Degree // Biochemistry

CAP // Centre 63; 999 Club

Interests // Diplomacy, science

Happy to talk about // You name it!

SEBASTIAN SIERSTED21

CONTACT MAX AT // [email protected]

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Tessa is a self-employed jewellery designer with expe-rience and passion in both the fashion and commercial art industries. After studying History of Art at Edin-burgh University Tessa worked in a Mayfair gallery for four years before embarking into the world of entre-preneurship and starting her own jewellery business, Tessa Packard London.

Tessa is also an active member of several charita-ble boards, including the Rank Fellowship, the Young Marlburian Foundation and the Society of Young Phi-lanthropists, which all focus predominantly on youth work and education.

Tessa is particularly passionate about helping budding entrepreneurs start their own creative businesses, whether this be a gallery or design studio. With a large network of individuals in these fields, Tessa would be happy to also try and help school leavers and students with introductions and work placements in those are-nas. Having built her business from scratch, and with no prior connections in the fashion / jewellery worlds before she begun, Tessa understands just how chal-lenging it can be to follow your dream, but equally that with hard-work and the right advice, anything is pos-sible. She would be more than happy to impart advice and share her experiences and insights with anyone who might be interested

Lynton is currently halfway through a History degree at Christ Church, Oxford, and so far is having the time of her life. Although Lynton’s future career plans are still somewhat of a question mark, she is seriously considering postgraduate study in either history or law, with a career abroad in either academia, the media, or for an NGO after that. Having spent four months on an exchange programme at Princeton University in the US Lynton has caught the travelling bug, and can’t wait to set off for somewhere new after her studies.

This year Lynton is planning on furthering her involve-ment in uni-based groups such as the Women’s Cam-paign, Campaign for Racial Equality and Oxford-based homelessness campaigns. She is also hoping to launch a project to highlight the experiences of low-income students at Oxford, and raise awareness of issues of class and wealth inequality within the student body. Inspired by her involvement with the Rank Fellow-ship, Lynton is keen to continue to work with projects that have a positive impact on others, such as the new Fellowship Mentoring Scheme. She hopes to pass on to new fellows the vision, drive and values that Rank helped instill in her as well as forge lasting relation-ships with other Fellows.

CONTACT // [email protected]

 

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Happy to talk about // Whatever might be useful, such as university applications, CAP placements etc

Interests // Politics, photography

CAP // Centre 63; Elohim Church

Degree // History

University // Oxford

School // Lancaster Girls’ Grammar

LYNTON LEES20

CONTACT LYNTON AT // [email protected]

School // Marlborough College

University // Edinburgh

Degree // History of Art

CAP // N/A

Interests // Art, jewellery, fashion

Happy to talk about // Anything, including the art and fashion world, and entrepreneurship

TESSA PACKARD30

CONTACT TESSA AT // [email protected]

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Rebecca is in her final year at Liverpool John Moores and has recently gained an offer from the University of Manchester to undertake a Biochemistry MSc which is due to begin in October 2015. After her studies she would like to either join the NHS Scientist Training Pro-gramme and the Clinical Biochemistry division, or focus her energy on drug development with a focus to com-bat cancer. She hasn’t fully made up her mind yet!

Rebecca feels her mentors in the past (at school, the workplace or university) have made a real contribution to helping her achieve her goals and prepare her for whatever she needed. At Lancaster Girls Grammar she was lucky to be part of a new mentoring system be-tween the older girls and the younger students, which she felt made a huge positive difference to her school career. Unsurprisingly, Rebecca feels mentoring is an in-valuable asset or system to have in place, and feels that sharing experiences and advice is essential for people to achieve their dreams. Rebecca is happy to act as a mentor and a friend to anyone who needs help and ad-vice on subjects such as formal interviews, university applications for Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees and the unknown!

 

Eleanor is a second year undergraduate at Lough-borough University studying Politics with Media and Communication studies. Although she is not entirely sure what her intentions and aims are after University, Eleanor is very keen to get involved in the media and journalism industry, and has recently written articles for the Everton Football Club monthly magazine as well as being an active writer for the university online student paper. Her ultimate aim is to work for a major newspaper or present with Sky Sports - with the lat-ter definitely her preference!

Eleanor is a passionate sports player at Loughborough, and very much believes in the importance of team sports as a way to develop personal relationships and individual leadership. She also believes that the devel-opment of a network of mentors and mentees will be extremely important and useful to many fellows too by propagating the idea of supporting ‘leaders for the benefit of society’, which is ultimately at the core of what the Rank Foundation represents. Being herself a younger Fellows, Eleanor feels that she would be able to provide advice about applying to university as well as advice about how to gain work experience to support your CV.

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School // Lancaster Girls’s School

University // Liverpool John Moores

Degree // Biochemistry

CAP // Essex boys & Girls Club

School // Marlborough College

Happy to talk about // Anything, including the art and fashion world, and entrepreneurship

School // Repton

University // Loughborough

Degree // Politics

CAP // Blackpool Carers Centre; Westminster House Youth Club

Interests // Sports, politics, Everton

Happy to talk about //Absolutely anything

REBECCA CRANSHAW ELEANOR SHARPLES20

CONTACT ELEANOR AT // [email protected]

CONTACT REBECCA AT // [email protected]

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Joe is in his third and final year of an undergraduate IT degree. He recently completed an internship with Cis-co where he worked as a Business Analyst, adding to his portfolio of experience which also includes web design and e-commerce practises. His long term career aim is to work as an IT consultant.

Away from his studies Joe is passionate about sport. He is currently a 1st Kye Brown belt in karate, plays inter-mural football at university and is also hoping to complete the Southampton half marathon this April.

Having been lucky to have very supportive friends and mentors growing up, Joe really understands the impor-tance and value of having an active support network to deal with the knockbacks life inevitably throws you. He would be happy to act as a mentor for anyone who wishes to have one and is happy to help out in any way he can – even if it is nothing more than a chat and catch up every now and then!

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Yorkshire born and West Indian bred, Piers is a for-mer British Army officer now working in the oil and gas industry. He served on operational tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan in the Queens Royal Lancers be-fore moving into the commercial sector. Piers has spent the last four years working for an indigenous Nigerian oilfield services business, with a focus on growing their pan-African footprint through acquisitions and green-field start-ups. He is also working on starting an oilfield services operation based in the Caribean.

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JOE BURROWS20

PIERS MUDD

School // Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hat-cham College

University // Southampton

Degree // Information Technology in organisations

CAP // Arum Community Church

Interests // Sports, technology,

Happy to talk about // Anything!

CONTACT JOE AT // [email protected]

CONTACT PIERS AT // [email protected]

School // Mowden Hall; Uppingham; Salisbury School Connecticut

University // Bristol

Degree // Geographical Sciences; Terrorism; International Relations

CAP //

Interests // Travel, photography, new businesses

Happy to talk about // Entrepreneur-ship, start-ups, business, mergers and aquisitions

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Laura currently works for an international law firm in the City as a solicitor specialising in general commercial and technology contracts. Before starting her current placement she took some time out to travel the world and enjoyed adventures in various countries in South America. As part of her legal career, Laura has been heavily involved on both sides of the recruitment pro-cess and would be happy to share her do’s and don’ts for application forms and interviews, including what makes your CV stand out.

Laura is involved in several charitable projects focused on bringing legal advice to those that may otherwise not have access to justice as well initiatives that give careers advice to those who may not have otherwise considered certain options due to their background or gender. Laura is particularly passionate about encourag-ing the role and presence of women in the work place, helping them to realise their full potential and get the most out of what they want from their careers.

Laura would be more than happy to give an insight into what it’s like to work in a law firm (it’s not as boring as everyone thinks!) including any general advice about applying for jobs during and after university. The future, careers and what to do is always daunting but it’s an exciting time and the best way to start is to ask as many questions as possible.

The last 18 months in Harry’s life have taught him an awful lot. Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes has prevented him from achieveing his dream of becoming an RAF pi-lot, and his passion for playing music and sport are also currently on hold due to injury and multiple operations. In the face of this adversity Harry has learnt patience, resilience and acceptance, and perhaps more funda-mentally that flexibility and optimism are key atributes to have in life.

Since graduating in 2014 Harry has worked for Investec Wealth & Investment as well as taking some time out to travel and see the world. He is currently looking further afield in terms of future career possibilities and is think-ing about graduate medicine (if he can get in!).

Harry would be delighted to offer mentoring advice to any Fellow, and is also looking forward to speaking to older Fellows who might be able to share their advice and experiences with him too.

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LAURA MACHALE30

School // St Mary’s Shaftesbury

Happy to talk about // A career in law, women and the City, intern-ships, graduate schemes, CVs

University // Edinburgh

Degree // Ancient History; Law

CAP // N/A

Interests // Travel, literature, politics

HARRY ANSTEE22

School // Canford

University // Manchester

Degree // Music

CAP // Informal Learning Wakefield; The Saviour Trust Wakefield

Interests // Sport, music, people

Happy to talk about // Anything - in-cluding dealing with the everyday is-sues people face

CONTACT LAURA AT // [email protected]

CONTACT HARRY AT // [email protected]

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Edward has taught in the London state sector since 2005 as a music teacher, assistant head of department and now as Director of Music at the music specialist West London Free School. The West London Free School is a new school that opened in 2011 and selects 10% of its cohort on musical aptitude ensuring that the school has a strong musical foundation. Over 50% of the pupils now learn an instrument and this has helped the school in starting a strong orchestral and pop/rock band tradition to supplement the large number of pu-pils who also sing in our choirs.

Alongside his work at the West London Free School Ed also set up and runs Inner Voices, an inner London chamber choir that takes some of the best singers from the schools in inner London and trains them to sing at a high choral standard and access some of the best music that the choral tradition has to offer as well as tackle exciting new music from contemporary artists.

Interests // Music composition, performance, produc-tion, human rights, radio, Classics and the theatre

Zara is currently a second year undergraduate at King’s College London. She is the Musical Director and vocal percussionist of ‘The Rolling Tones’ – KCL’s all female cappella choir and Voice Festival UK 2015 semi-finalists. Zara is also the Deputy Station Manager and Entertain-ment Editor of KCL Radio and is currently producing a series of academic podcasts and a radio adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ play, ‘Under Milk Wood’. She would love to eventually go into audio production, whether work-ing on film soundtracks, radio plays or documentaries.

Having been incredibly fortunate to meet some incredi-ble people through the Rank Foundation, Zara hopes to meet many more through the new mentoring scheme. She hopes she can be a source of guidance to any Fel-lows thinking about setting up their own university soci-ety or getting involved in extra-curricular activities. She is also very happy to talk about her experiences of being a student in London and her experiences of taking a GAP year. Whether looking for advice or a general chat about mutual interests over coffee, Zara asks that Fel-lows don’t hesitate to contact her.

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EDWARD WATKINS32

School // Eton College

Happy to talk about // Education

University // Oxford

Degree // Music

CAP // N/A

Interests // Singing, Politics, Running

ZARA TSO21

Degree // Ancient Greek and English

CAP // Wirral Brook Advisory Centre

Interests // Music Composition, Hu-man Rights, Classics and Theartre

School // Withington Girl’s School

University // King’s College London

Happy to talk about // Absolutely Anything!

CONTACT EDWARD AT // [email protected]

CONTACT ZARA AT // [email protected]

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Felix is currently studying at school with the aim to study Sports Science at either Bath or Loughborough University. His principal sport is rugby but he also par-ticipate in rowing, running and athletics. Felix currently plays in the Academy Squad for Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club, and has also previously played for London Wasps Academy, Middlesex County and has had trials for Ire-land in the past.

Felix has a strong interest in entrepreneurship and phi-lanthropy, using the profits from his past business enter-prises to aid others in their lives. For his CAP placement Felix was posted just outside of Glasgow with a charity called Clydesdale Community Initiatives (CCI), who aid people with mental, social and physical difficulties, help-ing them to be reintroduced and integrated into the lo-cal community through work experience. He found his time there to be a fantastic learning experience.

Felix’s mentors to date have been both formal and in-formal and have had an amazing impact on him. They have been brilliant sources of wisdom and support through his experiences - both high and low. He has been touched and humbled by their efforts to help him, and Felix hopes to reciprocate and help any Fellow who might need advice and guidance.

JJ graduated with a degree in Geography from Edin-burgh University so probably should have become a school teacher. Instead, he tried to get a job doing long hours in corporate finance for CitiBank. Many inter-views later, he (thankfully) found himself working at a small investment boutique that specialises in investing in listed equities (both long and short). He has worked there for almost eight years and has been exposed to all areas of the business. For him this has confirmed the importance of working in the right place, as after all, you do spend more time with your colleagues than you do with anyone else.

Having almost become the anonymous ‘worker-bee’ in corporate machine, JJ believes that we need to think be-yond what is immediately set in front of us. He believes there are so many opportunities available that there is no reason to settle for something which doesn’t suit you, even though it can be hard to know what that is. In his opinion one of the best ways to discover this is by talking to peers; talking about personal preferences, past experiences, individual characteristics, and long-term goals.

In the past JJ has provided mentoring advice with the Worshipful Company of Grocers, and would be happy to continue to share his advice, views and experiences (both personal and professional) with any Fellow who is not sure what the next step might be for them.

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FELIX LEONARD-FOX18

JJ JARDINE-PATERSON31

Degree // Geography

CAP // N/A

Interests // People, travelling, outdoor activities, finance

School // Eton College

University // Edinburgh University

Happy to talk about // Anything including investment management, paragliding, presenting skills, road trips,

Degree // N/A

CAP // Clydesdale Community Initia-tives

Interests // Sports, Biology (paleoan-thropology), philanthropy and people

School // Davenant Foundation

University // N/A

Happy to talk about // Anything and everything. Placements may be an area of interest.

CONTACT FELIX AT // [email protected]

CONTACT JJ AT // [email protected]

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After graduating from Leeds University in 2007 Si quick-ly felt the need for more education, but in a field better suited to the rat race of millennial life. He joined the Financial Management Program (FMP) at General Elec-tric, where for three years he honed his business and accounting acumen in their Energy division, and spent one year of the three living in Italy.

Following his graduation from the FMP in the summer of 2010, Si took a dramatic change of professional direction in deciding to follow his long held ambition of being a film producer. It wasn’t long before he discovered adver-tising and the creative whirlpool of London’s commer-cial production scene. In January 2011 he joined Home Corp, an independent production company, before going freelance in 2012, where he and spent 8 months working with some of London’s top commercial film companies as a Production Assistant / Production Manager. In Janu-ary 2013 Si joined production company Outsider to be-come their Head of Sales & Marketing, where he works with the best talent in the business across all manner of creative commercial content.

Si also co-runs ‘Art For Heart’s Sake’, a social enterprise which seeks to raise awareness and encourage charita-ble donation through creative engagement, with his wife Sophie, which they started in 2012.

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SIMON ELBORNE30

Degree // History

CAP // N/A

Interests // Arts, photography, media

School // Oundle

University // Leeds

Happy to talk about // Anything relat-ed to advertising, production, media and associated industries

CONTACT SIMON AT // [email protected]

Natalie heads up public relations for the British luxu-ry watch company Bremont. She joined the business in December 2013, bringing with her a wide experience of working in the luxury watch sector. Previous to her placement at Bremont, Natalie spent 3 years at the media agency Finch & Partners, where she directed a number of high profile fashion and luxury cli-ents including Lange & Söhne and Bremont. Natalie then moved onto The Massey Partnership where she further developed her knowledge of the sector working with leading brands such as La Montre, Hermés and Breitling. Having left university being totally none the wiser as to which career path she wanted to go down Natalie can fully appreciate how daunting it can be when looking to start work, particularly when having not done a vo-cational degree. Natalie would be delighted to help an-ybody in whatever way she can, be it through industry contacts or indeed imparting any advice that might be relevant.

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Degree // Philosophy

CAP // N/A

Interests // fashion, culture, travel

School // St Mary’s Ascot

University // Edinburgh

Happy to talk about // Anything and everything relating to PR, luxury indus-tries, career advice

CONTACT NATALIE AT // [email protected]

NATALIE KEIGHER28

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Emily is in her final year at LSE, graduating in July. She interned at two City law firms last summer where she really enjoyed the pace and focus of the work, and was lucky enough to accept a job at on the back of it with Hogan Lovells. Before she settles down to work full time for them in September as a solicitor, Emily is planning to travel for a few months and see the world.

Moving from home in Cornwall to London was a culture shock For Emily. Three years on and she absolutely loves London, but like many students she feels this big change in her life would have been much easier with more obvi-ous avenues of guidance. Most of her mentors have been informal and general (although extremely valuable), but not always had specialisation in the areas she would have liked to have addressed. To prevent others from experi-encing this gap, she signed up to her university’s Pathways to Law scheme, which provides mentoring solutions to sixth-form students with an interest in or intention tin pursuing law. She would be happy to extend this role to anybody in the Rank network. Emily is also equally as happy to act as a more general mentor/source of guid-ance, as she recognises the value in this too.

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EMILY HARRIS20

Degree // Law

CAP // Greenbank Christian Centre

Interests // Politics, films, fitness, fashion

School // Truro School

University // LSE

Happy to talk about // Anything - albe-it with questionable helpfulness in some areas!

CONTACT EMILY AT // [email protected]

Tom, a committed Christian, is back in full-time educa-tion and loving it. After looking likely to head into the corporate sector - spending time working for the finan-cial regulator - Tom’s career path changed course when he decided to do a two-year training scheme, post uni-versity, at a large church in London. As a result of that, Tom felt led to pursue a full-time church ministry.

As a result, Tom is now at Oak Hill Theological College in London, alongside his wife, Josie, who is also studying there. They hope to graduate in 2017 and become in-volved in a network of churches known as the ‘Co-Mis-sion’.

Over the course of his life thus far, Tom has been indebt-ed to older men and women who have been deliberate in mentoring him and offering him sound wisdom and counsel. He’s delighted to have the oppertunity to give something back by way of this mentoring scheme. He’s more than happy to meet up to chat about anything and everything, although his particular strengths lie in public speaking, leadership and fundraising.

TOM HEASMAN25

Degree // Economics & Manage-ment; Theological Studies

CAP // Temple-Shafton Youth Project

Interests // Acting, shooting, coastal footpaths, football, ale

School // Colchester Royal Grammar

University // Southampton; Oak Theological College

Happy to talk about // Public speaking, leadership, Christian ministry, fundrais-ing

CONTACT TOM AT // [email protected]

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Geordie is currently the Head of Business Management in a fast moving financial services organisation within the private wealth arena, and operating across 35 dif-ferent countries. After studying commercial property at university, he worked for the Financial Times in their Marketing and Sales division before joining the British Army. He served 6 years in the Household Cavalry Reg-iment, including two tours of Afghanistan, jungle warfare exercises in Belize, desert warfare exercises in the Kala-hari Desert and mobility exercises in Canada. After leav-ing the Army Geordie spent two years in Italy running European operations for a growing automotive elec-tronics company, whilst also helping start up an award winning food and drink business. He is a member of the Royal Geographical Society and therefore a keen trav-eller, but also enjoys outdoor sports, particularly those in the mountains.

Geordie is highly enthusiastic about leadership, mentor-ing and bringing out the best in people. He is a firm be-liever that you can achieve anything you put your mind to. Having worked in a number of different industries and difficult environments around the world, he is well placed to give career advice, and has a broad network of contacts willing to help. Geordie also recognizes the challenges young people face today. He is a good listen-er and is keen to share the knowledge he has gained from experiencing a number of life’s obstacles. He is more than happy to help, advise and journey with any fellow who is interested.

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GEORDIE MACKAY LEWIS30

Degree // Commercial Property

CAP // N/A

Interests // Current affairs, travelling, paragliding, skiing, motorcycles, film

School // Stowe

University // Northumbria

Happy to talk about // Any of life’s challenges, including business and inter-view advice

CONTACT GEORDIE AT // [email protected]

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Rosamond McNulty // [email protected] Young // [email protected]

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