Keen clay pigeon shooter Amy Parker has triggered a new phase in her management career by taking on a senior role with a major Cumbria leisure group.
Amy is now the human resources manager of Holgates Parks, based at the company’s flagship Silverdale Holiday Park near Arnside in South Lakeland.
The newly created post at Holgates sees Amy put in charge of recruitment, training and other support activity for the firm’s 150-plus employees.
The post has meant a return for Amy top international employment law consultancy based in Manchester.
Amy grew up in Warton near Carnforth, and attended Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale before completing a business administration course at Lancaster and Morecambe College.
She went on to which she is now admitted as a member.
Some 20 new jobs were created last year across Holgates’ six holiday parks in Cumbria and north Lancashire, and Amy says the company will continue to recruit in 2018.
Most positions, she comments, are linked tourism industry.
Amy says she believes that the sectors this year.
The family-owned group, which first started welcoming guests over 60 years ago, provides luxury holiday homes touring caravans and tents.
Many guests, says Amy, come to explore the countryside – and fell walking is also a favourite pastime of hers and her 12-year-old daughter Grace.
Amy additionally enjoys running and keep-fit training, and she and her partner Patrick also share a passion for clay pigeon shooting which they have both recently taken up.