Denise has had a varied career working in both Public and Private sector and volunteering as a Trustee or Chair for a number of Charities. Her career path included West Midlands Police, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce’s, various hospitals and prisons as well as becoming a consultant for a number of large Education organisations. In 2007 Denise started her own training company providing both Government funded and commercial training. Her company was initially offered a £120K contract and since then the business has grown in size and now to over £2.5m and employees 60 staff. Denise has undertaken a number of qualifications including a degree in Police Studies and achieved a BA Hons which also included management as well as the British constitution. She also has a number of qualifications that include management level 7, Certificate in Further Education, I.A.G, Trainer’s award, assessor award, internal qualification award, as well as safe guarding. In her spare time Denise spends time working with charities in the position of either as a Chair or Trustee. At present Denise is a chair of a local charity who helps young people to gain skills to help them gain work in the construction as well as help with personal issues. Blackwell and Eyam is a local community transport charity in Derbyshire and Denise was initially acting as chair and in 2023 she agreed to take on the post of Chair. Denise is also a trustee for a community project charity which the work they undertake is supporting small groups within the Birmingham area.