Teachers

Adalgisa Serio

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

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

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

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

Alison Hales

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

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

Andrea Hughes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chistian Barkei

Dr Christian Barkei. Teacher of History and Middle Eastern PoliticsI have 25 years of experience in international schools, specialising in modern history, geopolitics, and Middle Eastern studies. I aim to translate complex political dynamics in an approachable and clear manner....

Creina Mansfield

Danielle McPeake

Danielle has been a dancer her whole life she started her training at her local dance school "Step Ahead" in Heald Green, Danielle went on to further her dance training at Northern ballet School where she trained in various styles...

Dr Sheila French

Sheila is passionate about helping individuals to achieve their potential. She offers 1:1 coaching, works with groups and trains in the workplace setting.Sheila is certified to teach Mindfulness and is an NL Master Coach. She recently qualified as...

Emma Crawley

Frank Vigon

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

Gill Rossini

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

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

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

Jackie Halhead

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

John King

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...