Lisa

Experience 

  • Creative Entrepreneur
  • Neurofeedback - specialist interventions for a balanced mind
  • Educational Kinesiology and other brain body connection techniques
  • Outdoor and Creative Education workshops
  • Animal Assisted Therapy and Learning
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Training, Facilitation and Teaching

My objective in all the work I do is to help people achieve their full potential and inspire a love of learning.


I provide workshops at Oak Corner in Pickmere and the Growing Garden near Chester which are both beautiful plots of nature, shared with buzzards, field mice, frogs, spiders and other wildlife!


From my office based in Nantwich I provide Neurofeedback and other strategies to help people. This can help children and adults of all ages with: sleep difficulties, mental health conditions, PTSD, anxiety, depression, ADHD, dyslexia, autism, co-ordination and balance difficulties. At these sessions I combine my wide variety of skills and strategies using a coaching approach.


Reading with Roxy was first developed in 2020 and has been redeveloped as a pioneering responsive website application, designed to transform reading online into an interactive, safe experience. With beautiful Roxy my dog at the heart of it, her empathic avatar has been developed to harness the comfort and emotional connection she portrays in real life to support my global mission to help children all around the world to read!


Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Education Honours Degree
  • Psychology Conversion Post graduate Diploma recognised by British Psychological Society
  • Masters Degree in Geography and Environmental Management
  • Animal Assisted Therapy Certificate
  • ILM level 5 in Business Coaching and Mentoring
  • Educational Kinesiology Consultancy Certification
  • Educational Psychometric Testing level A and Neuro-Feedback Certification with Bee-Medic
  • First Aid and Safeguarding

Roxy

About me, Roxy!

From the day I was born, I was always an adventurous puppy. Farmer Rob used to say I was cheeky. As soon as I could run, I used to find the best escape route from the pen and the other puppies would follow me. Every day he had to build the fence higher and higher!


I love my mum and the rest of my human family. They take me on adventures all the time to: parks, fields, towns, villages, beaches, woods and even on buses and trains. My favourite adventure of all is swimming in the river!


I have done Animal Assisted Learning and Therapy from the age of 12 weeks, have achieved KC Bronze level to show my obedience and been a mum to 2 beautiful litters of puppies.


I am super excited to be part of Reading with Roxy online to help children all over the world to learn to read and enjoy reading along with me!

Philippa

Experience:

  • Videography and photography
  • Editing, scheduling and posting tailored content to multiple social chanels
  • Creating content with high SEO value
  • Detailed analytics reports on performance metrics
  • Developing a social media & marketing strategy

Hi, I’m Philippa. I’m a content creator who loves bringing ideas to life through photos, videos and anything social. I focus on making content that's valuble to people all over the world.


I keep up with the latest trends and algorithms across TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube, and I’ve spent over five years creating content for both B2C and B2B audiences. Travel and meeting new people inspires a lot of my creativity!


I am creating and developing global partnerships to offer our Reading with Roxy project to children living in under-represented regions and communties.


Qualifications:

  • Certified Digital Marketing Associate
  • DMI Track: Social Media Marketing Digital Marketing Institute
  • A* Photography 
  • A* Product Design
  • Distinction* Food & Science Nutrition
  • Digital Safeguarding

Ben

Experience:

  • Helped to create and develop workshops for children and teenagers  for our lottery funded “Team building for Teens” Project and Family Workshops.
  • Planned and been lead chef for creative campfire cooking, inpsiring children to cook.
  • I have constructed and deconstructed large tents, tippee's, marque's, bars, stretch and sperry tent structures for large scale commercial events. These included Glastonbury, Red Bull Hardline, Taste of London and Creamfields. 
  • I have done extensive bar work across multiple festivals such as Love Saves the Day, Shambala and Glastonbury, whilst also having years of experience within a pub and restaurant. 

I love creating spaces that are both comforting and motivating, where positivity thrives, and learning feels more natural. 


I always focus on providing a friendly atmosphere, of which people of any age can embrace these thoughtfully designed experiences. 


The creative and innovative aspects to my work are prominent as I love gamifying activities and incorporating music.


I am building partnerships with Non Governmental Organisations and schools in under-represented communities around the world to establish Reading with Roxy as a global gold standard for inclusive and safe online learning.


Qualifications

  • Studying Business Marketing at Leeds Trinity University
  • 3 “A Levels” - Business Studies, Law and core Maths
  • 9 "GCSE’s” 
  • Safeguarding 

Neil

Experience:

  • Founder of Citizen Science 
  • Teaching Secondary School Science
  • Teaching Biology to adults in FE for 15 years
  • Curriculum development and teacher training for overseas ministry of education
  • 10 Years as Wildlife Watch leader for Cheshire Wildlife Trust
  • Tree climbing Instructor and director of Discover Tree Climbing Ltd
  • Bush craft and survival skills
  • Forest Garden development
  • Safeguarding

With Education for Life CIC I can offer learning experiences for children and adults of any age at Oak Corner or the Growing Garden. I use: bush craft, team building, fire lighting, tree climbing permaculture and tracking skills. These help to improve appreciation and joy of being in the natural world. With a teaching background, I can combine the natural world with aspects of subjects such as language, maths, and science to inspire and develop learning for all ages.

Sam

Experience:

  • Supporting primary school age children in an educational setting
  • Establishing a youth group for hard to reach and vulnerable young people 
  • Working within children’s residential care setting in inner-city and semi-rural locations.
  • ADHD parent and child support group
  • ADHD coaching
  • Supporting families and children on the edge of care
  • Supporting families and children that are at risk from ‘child sexual exploitation' (CSE) and 'child criminal exploitation' (CCE)
  • Working with children with additional needs and EHCP plans
  • Foster carer 
  • Hairdressing and supporting young people within the industry

A little bit about myself:

Firstly, let me just share that school was a difficult and unhappy place for me to be. It wasn’t until I was in my twenty’s, when I went into further education, that my disabilities were recognised, and I was given support to help me learn and achieve.

This has enabled me to work within a profession which I am passionate about.

Children and Young People, helping them to become the best they can be. To be Healthy, Happy and Safe.

‘Believe you can and you will’....

 

Qualifications

  • Cache level 3 supporting, teaching and learning
  • Level 3 diploma in children and young people
  • Safeguarding level 3 
  • Domestic violence training level 3
  • City and Guilds level 4 in hairdressing
  • ADHD coaching 
  • Solution focus therapy