“Welcome to the Home Page for our small website”
After our years in employment in career guidance services, both publicly-funded and in private businesses, we decided in 2005 to set up on our own as a registered Partnership to offer professional advice and consultancy on education & skills.
We offered professional services to organisations. We did not offer face-to-face career guidance to individuals – although we had strong links with specialist careers advisory services, through our involvement with the Career Development Institute and Careers England – as you’ll see from our introductory pages elsewhere on this website.
The name we chose for our business Partnership came from our location – we live in the North Yorkshire village of Thrintoft. Our home is the actual boundary of the village limits and was built on the outfield of the former boundary of the old village cricket pitch. Added to this, we’re passionate cricket followers (as you’ll also see when you view our introductory profiles and ‘more about us’).
So the name of our business Partnership chose itself, and our friends at Mosaique Design (of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire) readily arranged especially captured cricket-related photos for our new corporate image.
This Home Page enables you to click links above to view professional introductions to each of us – and to a section giving more personal information about us. We hope that you find these helpful. As you’ll see, from the top of this page, there’s also a link to enable you to make direct contact with us.
Whilst some of Paul’s consultancy work was with private organisations, we’ve included on his page a link to some of his national public work for the Quality in Careers Consortium (and earlier for Careers England and the Careers Profession Task Force) as well as for schools and colleges, Local Authorities, national professional bodies and Axia Digital Ltd.
As of April 2025, Paul now limits his work to his roles with Axia Digital Ltd and with the Quality in Careers Consortium.
Alison had to retire in April 2017 from on-site work with clients due to the onset of Primary Progressive MS.