| Webinar Facilitators |
| Mike Cox Webinar Chair Association of Employement and Learning Providers After 13 years in retail purchasing and supply, Mike became an assessor for apprenticeships with TBG Learning in 1999. He soon moved onto various development roles with learndirect, RNID and then LSN where he headed up the bidding and development team, helping design support programmes and research in areas including Train to Gain, Citizenship, Diplomas, Key Skills, Functional Skills and Foundation Learning. He joined AELP in February 2013. Mike is married with 2 children and lives in rural Kent. | |
| Debbie Crellin Crellin Consulting Debbie has been involved in government programmes focused upon overcoming barriers to employment for the last 15 years, previously working more broadly in community economic development and regeneration. Debbie brings experience from ‘both sides of the fence’ - having commissioned programmes in her role as Inclusion and Skills Manager for a Regional Development Agency and for the DWP/DoH Fit for Work programme she now writes tenders. Debbie has operated her own consultancy business since 2008 specialising in helping companies, in the private and social enterprise/charity sector, to grow through offering business services in Tendering, Bid Writing, Social Impact Evaluation, Business Planning and Feasibility Studies. Bidding and tendering work ranges from applying to trusts and foundations for a small local charity, to working on a bid for the National Careers Service. Her clients include housing associations, learning and skills boards, the LGA, NOMS and private companies and charities. Debbie is married with one son and although a ‘southerner’ now lives in West Yorkshire. | |
