"This event has been extremely valuable. It has given me a lot of food for thought. I'm glad I did it a few years before retirement"

Sheffield College Delegate

Our speakers include:

Liz Whilde:

Liz worked as a registered nurse in Sheffield for 20 years before changing careers to become a lecturer in health, social and child care at Chesterfield FE College. Most recently she has worked for the Multiple Sclerosis Society as a regional service development officer, which helps to combine her health and education experience. She has a keen interest in health and wellbeing in retirement as her partner retired in 2003

James Pam:

James worked for the Nottinghamshire Probation Service for twenty years before joining the Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust in 1995 as Head of Social Work at Rampton High Secure Hospital. He retired in 2008 as a General Manager of the Community Forensic Directorate in the same Trust. James has a particular interest in issues of Health and Wellbeing.

Tracy Woods MHFST, MICHT - Self employed sports therapist and Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner

Tracy has been in practice for around six years after making the great leap from the corporate world in administration. She believes we all get more out of life if we feel good. To feel good we need to be in the best emotional and physical health we can, she is passionate about helping people to achieve just that.

Tracy is in private practice in both Sheffield and Rotherham and helps those wishing to get back to their chosen sport or daily activity with less pain and improved mobility. She is your emotional baggage handler! “Health and wellbeing is yours and you take it into your retirement so invest and reap your rewards”

Bill Andrews

Bill Andrews has a private Human Givens therapy practice in Sheffield. He is also a senior assoiciate with the International Centre for Clinical Excellence, a new worldwide initiative designed to explore empirical findings around excellence in the delivery of behavioural health.

As well as providing independent consultancy and supervision in outcome informed practice he is an accredited supervisor with the Human Givens Institute and teaches on the MA programme in Human Givens Psychotherapy at Nottingham Trent University. He has a special interest in treating Psychological Trauma and he is completing his MSc in this subject at University of Chester.

Clive Smith ACIB:

Clive worked in the banking industry for over 30 years. For a period he was Regional Manager responsible for electronic banking services and from here grew his interest in personal computing. He retired in 2007 having worked as a Training Consultant for 2 days a week for the previous 3 years, with one of the major UK banks. Has provided input to our courses for a number years now.

Clive’s with his wife Carol runs a small IT business (they produced this website for us) from where Clive has gained considerable additional knowledge. He is able to provide a ‘taster’ for those new to the subject of personal computing and some helpful tips for those already more experienced. Additionally Clive provides guidance on the state benefits available in retirement.

David Miller MA, Diploma in Training Management:

David worked for over 30 years for Sheffield City Council, the last 10 years as a Finance Manager. He led a team of nearly forty staff, providing financial advice and support to schools in local authorities across South Yorkshire and the East Midlands. He has over 15 years experience of training on financial management and administration to a wide variety of public sector staff, including headteachers, solicitors, social workers, housing officers etc.

David is the co-author of ‘Managing Finance, Premises and Health and Safety’ published by David Fulton in 2007. He is a school governor in three schools and acts as a trainer and consultant governor to a number of governing bodies.
After taking voluntary early retirement, David is self-employed and enjoys working with PREP, helping participants understand the complex and changing world of state benefits.

From I² Retirement & Financial Planning Ltd:

Mrs Amanda Mellors MLIA (dip)

Mr Alan Flinders MLIA (dip)

I² Retirement & Financial Planning Ltd: have been talking on the Pre – Retirement and Mid Life Seminars for Prep over the last 18 years.

They are an established firm of Independent Financial Advisers (IFA's) whose specialist consultants have over 40 years experience in providing quality advice.

They are totally independent of any Bank, Building Society, Insurance Company or Investment Manager and are committed to providing their clients with truly unbiased advice. Their advice is supported by market leading research software, which enables them to work on a strictly ‘Best Advice’ basis. They will combine all relevant facts about a clients current situation before making any recommendations.

Their clients are individuals looking to maximise their finances, coming up to or who are in retirement.The hallmark of the firm is the attention to detail. Their clients demand, and deserve the highest standards of integrity, discretion and professionalism. An expectation I² Retirement & Financial Planning Ltd are committed to fulfilling.

I² Retirement & Financial Planning Ltd has their Head Office centrally located in South Yorkshire within easy reach of motorway, rail and tram connections to the North and South of the country.

Jessica Birch - Commercial Solicitor

Jessica graduated in 2008 with an upper second class honors degree in Law, and followed it with a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Sheffield in 2009.

Jessica joined Wosskow Brown and has now qualified as a solicitor in the commercial department. Through following her interest in business development, problem solving and work with local businesses, she has found she has a real passion for this area of law.

Maddalena Proctor - Legal Assistant

Maddalena joined Wosskow Brown LLP in December 2010 as a Legal Assistant in the Private Client department.

The department specialise in Wills, Lasting Power of Attorney, Probate, Inheritance Tax Planning and advising the elderly. Maddalena has over 10 years experience advising clients on how to safeguard their assets in readiness for retirement.

Eamonn Larkin - Crime Reduction and Community Safety Consultant.

Eamonn retired from the South Yorkshire Police at the beginning of 2007, where he had served for 30 years. His last posting was as Sheffield City centre crime reduction officer.

Eamonn now works as a security consultant in Sheffield and lectures in crime reduction and community safety for organisations across South Yorkshire.

Terry Gregory DipCG, DPMS, MICG, MCMI, CTD
Business / Career Coach & Advanced Guidance Practitioner

A professionally qualified Career Coach who has worked as a Senior Consultant for several leading Career Management/Outplacement organisations including Capita People Development, Hudson International Consulting and Maze8. Terry also worked as a Career Consultant in 6 UK universities, 3 in Lithuania and 1 in Israel.

He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Vilnius and Mykolas Romeris Universities in Lithuania where he works primarily with Masters and PhD students on personal development and career management programmes. For the last 14 years he has run a small niche Career Coaching consultancy running career management workshops and providing intensive 1:1 coaching to individuals in person and using modern communications technology. Prior to setting up his own consultancy Terry worked as Assistant Director of HR (responsible for management development and training) in a large NHS Trust where he was involved with coaching managers and training them in effective recruitment and selection techniques.

The Director of PREP, Lorraine Howie, is a facilitator for these events.

Lorraine has been a Director of PREP since 2001. She follows in the footsteps of Brenda Barker, who originally set up the company 30 years ago.

Previously Lorraine worked as a Training & Development Manager for Barclays Bank PLC, but left after 27 years to take up the new challenge of running this successful consultancy.

PREP has been a leader in its field for some time and over the years that Lorraine has been with them, she has endeavoured to take the company forward without making too many alterations to what is a winning formula. The changing aspirations and needs of the delegates have been her focus, so she has aimed to enhance the existing talks and add new ones.

Her priority is always her customers, therefore, she is more than happy to listen to their suggestions and build an event to meet their needs.

Jane Blythe - Seminar Manager

Joined the company at the beginning of October 2007 to enhance an already successful and thriving team.

Having worked in the world of finance for over 25 years, Jane has recently enjoyed 4 years of going back to school helping children.

Jane is enjoying the challenge with PREP but most importantly helping to provide people with a new gateway to their retirement planning.