Allison has been breaking down barriers and smashing glass ceilings since she first joined Merseyside Police in 1997.
Within a few years, she joined the Operational Support Division (OSD). The OSD were responsible for planning and responding to disorder, reducing priority crime and providing specialist method of entry and search tactics. Traditionally a male bastion.
In 2005, […]
Some might say Grace Vella has chosen a career field ripe with sexism and homophobia.
Born into a family of huge Liverpool fans, she got thrown into playing football at the age of 5 and it very quickly became her passion.
Even from this very early age, she always felt that women taking part in this sport were seen […]
Maggie Oliver is perhaps best known as the “Detective turned Whistleblower” who resigned from Greater Manchester Police in late 2012 in order to expose the now infamous Rochdale Grooming Scandal.
Earlier that year nine members of a paedophile ring had been sentenced for grooming and sexually abusing young girls in Rochdale. However, she was continually shocked […]
It’s been 33 years since Marie McCourt’s life was changed forever.
In February 1988 her 22-year-old daughter, Helen, disappeared on her way home from work. Her killer was convicted by a jury on overwhelming DNA evidence but never admitted his guilt or revealed the location Helen’s remains. He was released from prison last year.
Marie has searched, […]
Jade is an extraordinary young woman with a huge heart.
When Jade was 17, she started a movement called Sign Along with Us with the ambition to teach the world sign language. Jade isn’t deaf. She taught herself sign language when she was just 14 so that her little brother, Christian, who has complex disabilities wouldn’t […]
It was an extended hospital stay and a small bar of soap that was the catalyst for Sarwat Jaleel to set up her business: Kushboo.
Fed up of being away from the family the soap, brought in by her husband, Richard, gave her an instant boost. The little gift from home helped Sarwat to […]
Lucy Danger has skilfully driven the EMERGE Group from its inception in 1996, as a voluntary pressure group, to its unique position as a leading Social Enterprise.
EMERGE’s core objectives are to provide services which help to improve the environment and the relief of poverty through food, work and recycling activities.
One of the responsibilities of […]
The art of balancing is the secret of Karen’s success
Karen was born and brought up in Glasgow and moved to the North West in 1989. She joined Grant Thornton in 1994, becoming a partner in 1997 when her daughters were aged 5 and 8. She later went on to have become Head of Tax for […]
Albert Einstein once said, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”
It’s a warning which resonates with Emma Buckley.
Emma spent her formative years watching her Dad carefully look after his beehives. He’d been doing it for more than 50 years but as a […]
One of Claire-Marie’s many mantras is ‘there’s more than one way to skin a cat!’ which gives you a bit of an insight into how she works – problem solving; getting you to look at challenges in a pragmatic way; out of the box thinking; and through a different lens.
Claire-Marie Boggiano was born in Belfast […]
