Bio: As a founding member of Fostering Ltd, Caroline is Registered Manager.
She has decades of experience in being a Social Worker and working in Social Care, Statutory, Voluntary and Independent sectors.
Caroline has been a qualified social worker since 2001 and has worked in fostering and adoption since 2010. She was a Foster Carer for over 14 years and cared for 67 children. Caroline has five daughters, three of whom are adopted.
Bio: Fostering Ltd and the social work environment, came into Ann’s life with a bang back in 2014 and it’s been a roller coaster ever since, but she loves it.
Ann’s background for the last 30 years has been in Management Accountancy within SME’s.
She wears many hats in Fostering Ltd, Finance Director, Management Accountant and more recently taking on the role of Managing Director.
Ann loves to travel with her family and hopes to get to a lot more places together in the future. She has a daughter who keeps her really busy and loves being out and about, walking her Dog Daisy – a crazy Labradoodle.
Ann has recently traded running for Pilates and Yoga, and more recently Reformer Pilates. She also loves a concert or festival, as long as it’s not raining, muddy or cold!
Bio: Rachel joined Fostering Ltd in 2015 when the company was first formed, as their Fostering Administrator.
Rachel has a BTEC in Business Administration and has worked as a Fostering Administrator
since 2014 and in general administration since 2004.
Rachel says “I have loved the years that I have worked within our Fostering Ltd family. Working within a fostering service and seeing the lives of young people transformed, gives me great pride in my work”.
Outside of work, Rachel loves spending time with her husband and cat Archie. Enjoys reading, listening to music and travel. She is a big nature lover and enjoys spending time in her garden growing herbs & vegetables.
Bio: Tania joined Fostering Ltd. in 2019, having made a leap of faith the previous year and moved up from the south. She came from a fostering family, where her parents had fostered a few children when she was a child.
Tania’s role within the agency began as an Office Administrator and developed to Compliance Manager four years later.
Outside of work, Tania’s hobbies and interests are centred around sustainable and environmentally friendly activities. I volunteer for a Heritage Trust once a month and enjoy a bit of DIY. However, getting out into the great outdoors is where she is happiest; gardening, growing veg or going on a trek.
Tania says “I am most content with experiences in life that are cost-effective and that don’t deplete resources. Additionally, I enjoy growing and making my own herbal teas and delight in foraging for natural ingredients to make a brew”.
Bio: Michelle is a Mum, Stepmum, Legal Guardian and Nannie!
In her previous posts, she has been a Project Manager for a large charity, a Community Fundraiser and Operations Support for a horse-riding centre for children with disabilities.
Michelle’s two loves are Pugs and Ponies!
She joined Fostering Ltd. as a Foster Carer in 2018 and in 2023 was given the opportunity to retrain as an apprentice Social Worker with Fostering Ltd. and finish her degree in social work, which she started many years before!
Michelle says “I am now proudly part of a team that is “Run by Foster Carers for Foster Carers”.
Bio: Social Work found Anne-Marie when she got a job in the homeless section of the Benefits Agency way back in 1986. Since then, she has worked with homeless people, offending, and addictions, finally finding her way to Children’s Social Work.
She follows the children’s journey from frontline child protection through to foster care. She say “It’s so rewarding to see children be able to settle
safely somewhere while their parents are able to sort themselves out, or into a forever home where they feel loved and can thrive”.
When Anne-Marie is not at work she loves to go and watch football and still has a season ticket at Aston Villa, despite moving north. She also watches PNE regularly with her husband.
You’ll also regularly find her at various gigs and volunteering as a steward for Oxfam at music festivals, including Glastonbury. Somewhere in between all this Anne-Marie also loves to spend time with her grandsons.
Fostering Ltd is an Independent Fostering Agency based in Fulwood, Preston.
