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Meet the members

Read more about how some of our members have been supporting the silver audience

Meet the members

Chris Pitchford – Publisher, World of Cruising

Someone who sets up a successful business at the age of 17 sounds like an entrepreneur destined to remain their own boss.  So it’s a surprise to learn that it took Chris Pitchford nearly two decades of employment before launching another solo enterprise. ‘I definitely should have done it earlier,’ Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 3 months20th March, 2023 ago
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Debbie Harris – Founder of Autumna

Debbie Harris – Founder of Autumna Choosing a care home – or care at home – for a much-loved family member can be a long and emotional experience.   Or at least it used to be.  But log onto autumna.co.uk and all the information you need is now there at the Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 3 months6th March, 2023 ago
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Martin Lock – Founder & CEO of Silversurfers

Martin Lock – Founder & CEO of Silversurfers At the close of the 1990s, long before most of us had taken our first tentative steps into the online world, Martin Lock was already at the cutting edge of communication technology.  In those early days of the internet, Martin was heading Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 4 months15th February, 2023 ago
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The Importance of Age in 2023

Rik Moore is Head of Insight, Strategy & Planning at The Kite Factory. Prior to this, he was joint Head of Strategy at Havas Media, and Head of Channel Strategy at WCRS/Engine.   A key lesson a CSO I used to work with (Mark Sinnock at Havas) taught me earlier in Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 6 months19th December, 2022 ago
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Vernon Hogg, Silverpreneurs®

 Vernon Hogg – Co-founder of Silverpreneurs® Unexpected redundancy hits hard at any age, but especially when you’re over 50.  No matter how far up the corporate ladder you have climbed, losing a job you enjoy and you thought was secure is a blow not just to the budget, but to Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 7 months6th November, 2022 ago
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David Lloyd – Boom Radio

DAVID LLOYD Co-founder, Boom Radio Clock up the big 6-0 and many people are happy to ease gently into retirement through reduced hours, a part-time job, or maybe a volunteering role. And after a busy career in commercial radio, radio station manager and broadcaster David Lloyd thought he might be Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 8 months30th September, 2022 ago
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The silver generation are getting close to the water with Seafarer Sailing

As the rapid increase of multi-thousand cabin liners in the 2010s showed, silver holidaymakers have long been a prime target for cruise operators. They are affluent, social enough to not mind being in a crowd, and love being entertained. Sadly, the Covid pandemic made many older people risk-averse and the Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 11 months7th July, 2022 ago
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Peter Stratton, Forty years experience and still going strong

With a career spanning four decades, I thought I had seen everything, and then C-19 hit us out of the blue! As horrendous as it has been, most businesses will recover. But it is going to take intelligence, patience, maybe some increased risk and, perhaps, a bit of luck too. Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 1 year25th March, 2022 ago
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Tony Watts OBE – Later life in the news

If you want to keep on top of research, events, views and developments in the later life arena, have I got news for you… About seven years ago I discovered a nifty piece of software that allowed me to combine two of my biggest passions: editing and later life. It’s Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 1 year23rd February, 2022 ago
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Dr Jacqueline Jeynes – Targeting the mature travel sector

  In 2020, there were clear signs of a growing, thriving, mature travel sector and changes in what they were looking for from a holiday. We were all so optimistic in our plans for the future. But then, a global pandemic that no-one expected, or knew how to control, swept Read more…

By Michelle Laverick, 1 year23rd February, 2022 ago

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