“Campaigning for post-separation equality in parenting. Currently petitioning UK government to amend family law to promote equal contact”
I left school and joined the police after a short wait while working in some small local businesses. I got married and had kids very young, in a rush to be a grown up. By 23 I had two kids, a wife and a mortgage, along with a secure job doing what I'd always wanted to do - policing. But I was miserable. Marriage wasn't what I'd thought, the job wasn't treating me with the love I felt for it, and I found parenting far harder than I'd expected.
In 2014, after 18 months of horrendous mental health issues and even more horrendous domestic issues, I left the police to set up a gardening business, an industry I knew nothing about, in Worthing, a town I'd never been to. After four years of that, and at the beginning of a messy divorce I was approached by a former police colleague about setting up a security company. He'd been co-running one for a couple of years but wasn't happy with the set up and was looking at an exit strategy. I was in a new phase of life, new girlfriend, brighter outlook etc, I sold the gardening business (in a twelve day rush) and we incorporated a security company which went from strength to strength and in 2020 during the pandemic we expanded to a group of companies, now offering cleaning, medical support and a small arm of property ownership.
I sold this business in 2022 and embarked on a very short period of conventional employment, during which I had an enormous mental breakdown and have spent two years reassessing and rebuilding myself through various methods, and have recently begun to consult for businesses around the UK, supporting them to overcome their plateaus and achieve ultimate scalability.
I'm currently campaigning and petitioning the UK government to amend family law to mandate equality of contact for both parents of children post-separation. Petition can be found at Introduce a Presumption of Equal Parenting Time in Family Law - Petitions
