Experience

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  Turpin Smale Catering Consultants

  • Director

    • Jan 2011 - Present

    Catering & Conference Consultants - specialist and independent. The three Directors - Ian Doughty,Chris Brown, Charles Manners carry out all assignments. Sectors covered include: Visitor attractions and museums, conference and function venues, coffeeshops and restaurants, employee foodservice...

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  Hope Enterprises and Hope Centre

  • Northampton, United Kingdom

  • Non-Executive Director & Trustee

    • Mar 2016 - Present
    • Northampton, United Kingdom

    Hope Enterprises is a social enterprise set up by Northampton’s Hope Centre, formerly Northampton Soup Kitchen, with more than 30 years’ experience working with the town’s homeless.Workshops enable our homeless clients to develop necessary skills to build their self-esteem as well as generate muc...

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  Ludlow Farm Shop

  • Non Executive Director

    • Jan 2011 - Present

    Launched in 2007 Ludlow Farm Shop has strived to offer the best fresh, local, seasonal and handmade food. The Centre is set in the Earl of Plymouth’s Oakly Park Estate in Bromfield on the outskirts of Ludlow. All of our beef, lamb, and rare breed Gloucester Old Spot pork comes from the Estate alo...

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  Quad Solutions

  • Director

    • Jan 2010 - Mar 2011

    Interim Director of Commercial Services at Staffordshire University

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  The Russell Partnership

  • Partner

    • 2001 - 2009
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  Whitbread PLC

  • UK

  • Various Positions

    • 1980 - 2000
    • UK

    Charles career before 2000 was with Whitbread PLC, working in a variety of senior operations, development and commercial roles all with a marketing focus in the hotels and restaurants divisions

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  Grenadier Guards

  • London, Berlin, Northern Ireland

  • Short Service Commission

    • 1977 - 1980
    • London, Berlin, Northern Ireland