Meet the Craven Consultancy Services Team
Whether you need us for Health & Safety, HR or Training , we are One Team!
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Liz Brewster
Managing Director
Liz Brewster // Managing Director
Liz Brewster, MD, leads the business day-to-day, as well as being a qualified Health & Safety Advisor. Liz has managed the business successfully for over sixteen years. Liz holds a NEBOSH certificate, Level 4 NVQ and is a Chartered Member of The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH) as well as being registered on the OSHCR for qualified consultants.
Above all, Liz’s focus is on building close relationships with clients to establish their Health and Safety needs. Liz gets a great sense of achievement in seeing businesses that have little or no Health and Safety procedures, progress to having clear documentation, also more importantly, a safe working environment for their employees.
In her spare time, Liz loves the great outdoors, and likes nothing more than climbing to the top of a big hill with her two dogs (Buster and Freddie), especially if there is a pub at the end of it as a reward for the effort! Liz has a passion for travel and loves the warmer climates.
Dee Newton
Operations Manager, HR Business Partner & Coach
Dee Newton // Operations Manager, HR Business Partner & Coach
Dee Newton, Operations Manager, HR Business Partner and Coach leads the Business Development and HR side of the business, is a qualified HR Advisor and Executive Business Coach. Dee joined the team in 2020 with many years’ experience within both the private and public sectors. Dee is educated to Level 7 CIPD HR Management.
Dee has 20 years’ + experience in HR/people management and has extensive knowledge and experience in various sectors and services; including Charity, Construction, Education, Escalators, Hair & Beauty, Health & Social Care, Hospitality, IT & Manufacturing.
Craven HR has a a Strong Personal Brand; with a Positive Focus on; Partner Relationships, Business Transformation, Compliance, Culture, Continuous Improvement, Health & Wellbeing, Risk Management, Technology & a Safe Working Culture.
Dee is more pragmatic and less ‘risk adverse’ in relation to HR/People Management (in the right context of course). She’s a Creative Problem Solver, Passionate & down to earth, with a sense of humour (subjective of course lol), she will tell you ‘how it is’.
In her spare time Dee loves walking with her husband and rescue greyhounds Otis and Magick and her lurcher Elsie. She adores the snow, dried flowers, winter, the sea, traditional pubs, music, gigs, travel, aromatherapy, horror movies, the 70’s era and enjoys fun time with long lasting best friends, her daughter Sam and grandson Ralfie Lennon.
Tonie Hutchinson
Health & Safety Advisor
Tonie Hutchinson // Health & Safety Advisor
Tonie always knew that putting some good in the world would be what she ended up doing. This led Tonie to researching roles that were a bit different to what she had done before, enter Craven Consultancy Services.
Tonie is now building a career as a Health and Safety Advisor, putting good into the world by making sure businesses have a safe working environment for their employees. Tonie believes that learning is a never-ending process and she is very much looking forward to the opportunities with CSS where she can put her skills to good use and grow.
Tonie’s family and friends would describe her as energetic, determined, bubbly, funny, caring and pretty damn awesome (taken from a variety of sources).
In her spare time she loves being in the outdoors with her daughter Luna, whether its walking or lazing in the garden (weather permitting), snuggling on the sofa with a good book, eating good food and have recently taken an interest in dressmaking and herbs, flowers and essential oils.
Megan Rose Gray
Trainee Health & Safety Advisor
Megan Rose Gray // Trainee Health & Safety Advisor
Please meet Megan our newest member of the team. Megan started in April 2023 as a Trainee Health & Safety Advisor. Life recently made Megan feel like she needed a challenge, to learn grow and develop a whole new skill set whilst at the same time making a difference to the world we live in. To see this opportunity come about at Craven Consultancy Services was perfect. The Trainee Health and Safety advisor job role at Craven seemed to really come about at the most perfect time.
Megan is very excited to start the never-ending learning process at Craven and is looking forward to the opportunities being at Craven will give her.
One of the things Megan is looking forward to the most is the one to one with people, being able to build lasting relationships and to hopefully help and guide them along their way to having a safe work environment for themselves and employees.
In Megan’s spare time she very much so enjoys being outside with her Romanian rescue dog Bear, preferably in the sunshine. Megan believes that when the sun is shining life feels that little bit better and the blue skies also helps to put a smile on other people faces as well.
Freddie & Elvis
Pod Dogs
Freddie & Elvis// Office Dog
Freddie & Elvis are the office dogs.
Freddie is a Miniature Schnauzer. Freddie loves the outdoors and living in the Countryside. Long walks followed by even longer sleeps in front of the fire is what makes an ideal day for Freddie.
Elvis is a Shih Tzu and loves back, tummy and bum rubs, he loves curling up by the fire or when in the office in his bed by the window so he can look out.
The Alpacas
The Alpacas
Timothy, Perin and Wallace
Always in the field next to the office and always want to find out what you are up to.
They all have individual personalities and can be quite cheeky at times!
Interesting Alpaca Fact 1- Alpacas are social animals that prefer to live in herds. They have a unique way of communicating with each other through a variety of sounds. One interesting vocalisation they make is called 'orgling,' which is a deep, rhythmic humming sound that males produce during the breeding season to attract females. This distinctive sound can be heard from quite a distance and helps alpacas establish their dominance and reproductive fitness.
Interesting Alpaca Fact 2 - Alpacas are known for their luxurious and soft fleece, but did you know that their fiber is actually hypoallergenic? Unlike sheep's wool, alpaca fiber lacks lanolin, which is the primary cause of wool allergies. This makes alpaca fleece a great choice for individuals with sensitive skin or allergies.