Richard Kendrick

Richard Kendrick is Managing Director of arboreal marketing Ltd – a marketing consultancy based near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.  With over 15 years’ experience in marketing, Richard’s background has varied from selling Massey Ferguson tractors in Wales and international marketing with a agricultural parts distributor through to Head of Marketing for SIG PLC and Marketing Director within the Graftons Construction Group. Specialising in marketing strategy, Richard is Google Analytics 4 certified and has expertise in optimising the digital elements within marketing departments.  Richard’s focus has always been B2B marketing, he is also a tutor for Cambridge Marketing College.
arboreal marketing Ltd is a consultancy specialising in common-sense marketing. Starting with an audit on all current marketing tools, projects then progress to developing strategies to make the most of a company’s strengths and improve underperforming areas of marketing departments. The focus is always around how to increase long term profit through effiecient and effective marketing.  Clients include private schools, Government communications and software providers and biodiversity specialists.
Outside of marketing, Richard is a keen runner, loves board gaming and is an enthusiastic cook – he has a food blog called Cook, Eat, Repeat.

Clair Slade

Clair Slade has a background in radio, sound engineering, marketing, graphic design, health and childcare and is fired-up by learning new skills. She currently volunteers with local charities and is working as a marketing coordinator for an international telecoms company.

Ann Hawkins FRSA

Ann Hawkins qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management studying psychology and economics, she helped to implement the first major set of equal opportunities legislation in the UK. Ann started her first business in 1986 and has been advising other business owners since 2005.

She publishes information and ideas for business owners on her blog and in many guest posts and interviews.

Richard Slade

Richard has over 20 years experience in the design industry working in the public, private and charity sectors with some of the top names in design. He produces highly creative work for brands and organisations across the UK and his work covers a wide range of disciplines, including web, print and corporate identity.

As well as extending his skills into both marketing and project management, Richard is also a highly capable photographer and illustrator. A huge advocate of design and creativity Richard formed Neotists in 2014 as a way to promote local freelance talent and community engagement.

Richard shares his time between three areas of work. He runs a design agency called Slade Design based in St Neots, he is town and district councillor for St Neots and has served as deputy and mayor in his term, finally he co-runs Neotists, a not-for-profit arts charity that supports creatives from all sectors. Alongside this he is a governor at the local secondary school and a trustee and volunteer on various charities locally.