Our Teachers

Adalgisa Serio

14 Courses in Modern Languages

1 Event: Italian at the Cinema 20 June

Adalgisa Serio is an Italian Lecturer at Centro Diffusione Leonardo da Vinci and Italian Tutor at the Wilmslow Guild. She has previously worked also at MMU and the Open University. She...

Alan Sennett

7 Courses in Cinema, Archaeology, History & History of Art, Classics, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry & Politics

Alan has taught modern history and film history for the Guild since 1997. He studied modern history at Sheffield City Polytechnic, took an MA in Political Sociology at Leeds University and obtained a PhD at Manchester Victoria University...

Alessandra Batty

14 Courses in Distance Learning, Archaeology, History & History of Art, Art

I hold a degree and a postgraduate degree (Specializzazione) in Classical Archaeology from the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, and an MA in Archaeology and PhD in History of Art from the University...

Alexandra Fairclough

12 Courses in Archaeology, History & History of Art

Alexandra is an architectural historian and heritage specialist. She studied her Masters in Architectural Conservation,...

Alison Hales

11 Courses in Community Engagement

Following brief experiences in leisure, retail management and chartered accountant training, I settled into a rewarding career in further and higher education colleges. In addition to having experience of managing two very different college departments,...

Alison Marris

10 Courses in Community Engagement, ESOL, Modern Languages

Specialism: English for Speakers of Other Languages at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels.

Andrea Hughes

3 Courses in Health and Wellbeing

8 Events: Master your posture, manage your stress with the Alexander Technique 25 July , Master your posture, manage your stress with the Alexander Technique 18 July, Master your posture, manage your stress with the Alexander Technique 11 July, ...

Having worked as a Production Designer in the television industry for 25 years I am very aware of the impact a high stress job has on the body and on mental health. It was a fabulous job for the most...

Anna Riordan

36 Courses in Distance Learning, Art, Macclesfield and Prestbury Courses

Anna is a freelance designer who studied Product Design at Exeter college of Art and Design.Anna developed a passionate belief in the value of Art education while studying for a PGCE at London's Institute of Education. She taught for 12...

Anna Maria Forti Sheikh

12 Courses in Modern Languages

Anna Maria Forti Sheikh is an experienced Freelance Translator, Language Consultant and Teacher of Italian at CDLCI – Education Department of the Italian Consulate in Manchester- delivering courses of Italian language and culture at pre-GCSE, GCSE and GCE level,...

Anne Davies

12 Courses in Distance Learning, Crafts and Textiles

I am a freelance artist, writer and teacher based in Stockport, Cheshire. I work in textiles and mixed-media. Felt-making, dyeing, stitching and printing are the main areas I work in.As a...

Benedicte Blamey

7 Courses in Modern Languages

Benedicte is one of our native French teachers. She has been working at the Guild over many years and has built up a number of successful classes. She is a fully qualified secondary school level French teacher and has...

Caroline Riley

1 Course in Crafts and Textiles

Caroline has been sewing since childhood, began dressmaking in her teens and has been sewing and making things ever...

Claire Parker

1 Course in Art, Health and Wellbeing

Claire Parker | Artist, HCPC Registered Art Psychotherapist & Creative MentorI am inspired by nature and the changing seasons, expressed with a vibrant palette,

Creina Mansfield

9 Courses in Classics, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry & Politics, Macclesfield and Prestbury Courses

Emma Crawley

2 Courses in Art

Evie Willems

1 Course in Classics, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry & Politics, Science

Evie Willems is a philosophy researcher and educator specialising in the philosophy of language, metaphysics and gender. She received her PhD in 2022 from the University of York, where she also...

Frank Vigon

38 Courses in Music, Archaeology, History & History of Art, Art

Frank Vigon has been a headteacher of an inner-city school and a highly successful and highly popular Media...

Gill Rossini

30 Courses in Writers at the Guild, Distance Learning, Archaeology, History & History of Art

1 Event: Wilmslow Festival of Writing 2026

Gill Rossini is a professional historian, writer and lecturer who specialises in researching the lives of the marginalised, the poor, and those who in the past were regarded as transgressive in their behaviour. She attributes her passion for...

Hannah Webb

11 Courses in Jewellery school Cheshire

2 Events: Enamelling with Hannah 21 June, Jewellery with Hannah 17 May

I have always had a passion for designing, making and crafting, using a wide variety of materials and mediums and started my jewellery path at the very young age of 12. ...

Ian Irvine

14 Courses in Archaeology, History & History of Art, Art

As a practising artist, I think I approach teaching art history not from an academic standpoint, but to tell stories and anecdotes, and to look into the context in which the art was...

Iona Limond

1 Course in Dance and Fitness, Health and Wellbeing

Jackie Halhead

9 Courses in Art, Crafts and Textiles

I started to paint on China and Porcelain in 1973 simply for fun......which is what most students do. I found I loved it and decided to take it a lot more seriously by attending every class/course or seminar I...

Jane Townsend

3 Courses in Dance and Fitness, Health and Wellbeing, Macclesfield and Prestbury Courses

John King

27 Courses in Science

I am a semi retired Head of Geography who has taught in Secondary Education for 32 years at 4 different schools. I established a keen interest in weather forecasting when I was at Secondary School myself and this interest...

John Slade

1 Course in Crafts and Textiles

Teachers

Adalgisa Serio is an Italian Lecturer at Centro Diffusione Leonardo da Vinci and Italian Tutor at the Wilmslow Guild. She has previously worked also at MMU and the Open University. She...

Alan has taught modern history and film history for the Guild since 1997. He studied modern history at Sheffield City Polytechnic, took an MA in Political Sociology at Leeds University and obtained a PhD at Manchester Victoria University...

I hold a degree and a postgraduate degree (Specializzazione) in Classical Archaeology from the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, and an MA in Archaeology and PhD in History of Art from the University...

Alexandra is an architectural historian and heritage specialist. She studied her Masters in Architectural Conservation,...

Following brief experiences in leisure, retail management and chartered accountant training, I settled into a rewarding career in further and higher education colleges. In addition to having experience of managing two very different college departments,...

Specialism: English for Speakers of Other Languages at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels.

Having worked as a Production Designer in the television industry for 25 years I am very aware of the impact a high stress job has on the body and on mental health. It was a fabulous job for the most...

Anna is a freelance designer who studied Product Design at Exeter college of Art and Design.Anna developed a passionate belief in the value of Art education while studying for a PGCE at London's Institute of Education. She taught for 12...

Anna Maria Forti Sheikh is an experienced Freelance Translator, Language Consultant and Teacher of Italian at CDLCI – Education Department of the Italian Consulate in Manchester- delivering courses of Italian language and culture at pre-GCSE, GCSE and GCE level,...

I am a freelance artist, writer and teacher based in Stockport, Cheshire. I work in textiles and mixed-media. Felt-making, dyeing, stitching and printing are the main areas I work in.As a...

Benedicte is one of our native French teachers. She has been working at the Guild over many years and has built up a number of successful classes. She is a fully qualified secondary school level French teacher and has...

Caroline has been sewing since childhood, began dressmaking in her teens and has been sewing and making things ever...

Claire Parker | Artist, HCPC Registered Art Psychotherapist & Creative MentorI am inspired by nature and the changing seasons, expressed with a vibrant palette,

Evie Willems is a philosophy researcher and educator specialising in the philosophy of language, metaphysics and gender. She received her PhD in 2022 from the University of York, where she also...

Frank Vigon has been a headteacher of an inner-city school and a highly successful and highly popular Media...

Gill Rossini is a professional historian, writer and lecturer who specialises in researching the lives of the marginalised, the poor, and those who in the past were regarded as transgressive in their behaviour. She attributes her passion for...

I have always had a passion for designing, making and crafting, using a wide variety of materials and mediums and started my jewellery path at the very young age of 12. ...

As a practising artist, I think I approach teaching art history not from an academic standpoint, but to tell stories and anecdotes, and to look into the context in which the art was...

I started to paint on China and Porcelain in 1973 simply for fun......which is what most students do. I found I loved it and decided to take it a lot more seriously by attending every class/course or seminar I...

I am a semi retired Head of Geography who has taught in Secondary Education for 32 years at 4 different schools. I established a keen interest in weather forecasting when I was at Secondary School myself and this interest...

I have been working with ceramics for 25 years and have been teaching ceramics and art and design since 2003.