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Hi all, Simon Parry here
I was a pupil at Western Park from 1983 to 1994. Since then, I first went on to Gateway Sixth Form College to do more GCSE's and then some A Levels (I came away with 1, Computing!). I then moved onto a training scheme run by Leicestershire County Council, where I did NVQ's in Business Administration and IT (Levels 2 and 3 folks!). Whilst on this training course I was sent on a work placement to Leicestershire County Council's HQ at County Hall where I spent 9 months working in their Training and Development Unit as a Clerical Assistant.
I moved on in October 1998 to Leicestershire Society for the Blind (now Vista), continuing my training whilst working in their Fundraising Office as an Assistant, I secured a full time post with them in January 1999. In April 2000 I moved back to Leicestershire County Council, but this time as a permanent member of staff, as a Clerical Assistant in the Training and Development Unit (Does this sound familiar!). Since then, due to a variety of restructures (and I think we are about to have another one!), I'm now a Support Assistant in the Corporate HR Support Team.
Outside of work, my long standing interest is radio. Through a friend at the Society for the Blind, I got involved with an RSL (Restricted Service Licence) station in Market Harborough, HFM, on their broadcast in 2001, where I answered phones and made tea etc. On the broadcasts in 2002, 2003 and 2004 I was a presenter.
Since then, HFM has now been awarded a full time Community Radio licence and will go on air with a full time service to Market Harborough and South Leicestershire later this year (2006), I Assist Glynn with research and talking to former pupils as well as digitising the many photos that pupils and staff have given to Glynn for the purpose of documenting history.
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