# David Hawkins-Weeks (@hawkinsweeks.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/hawkinsweeks.eurosky.social
Headline: SEND Manager
Location: Brooke, England, United Kingdom

## About

Experienced leader and business developer across various industry sectors, including education, SEND, health & fitness, charity and insurance.

Currently hold group management responsibility for SEND at ECC, including strategic planning, budgetary management, legal compliance, business development and people management. Additionally, hold a link governorship position for Quality of Education at The Bridge School, Easton, Norfolk (special SEND school).

Key Professional Strengths: ● Strong people management skills, having managed teams in a variety of settings, including remote workers ● Strategic thinker and able to balance commercial, quality and wider stakeholder interests ● Strong financial awareness & budgeting skills, including management of many large departmental budgets ● Good internal and external networker and successful new business developer ● Enthusiastic innovator and keen to see progress ● Good planning & organisational abilities ● Experienced at change management  Key Personal Values: ● Honesty ● Professionalism ● Loyalty ● Finishing the job ● Treating others as you wish to be treated yourself

## Career

- **SEND Manager at East Coast College** (Dec 2017 - Present)
- **Link Governor (Quality of Education for The Bridge Easton) at The Bridge Multi Academy Trust** (Sep 2023 - Present)
- **Head of Health & Fitness at The Training Room** (2016 - 2017)
  Strategic and management responsibility for profit, business development and growth of Health & Fitness service line
- **Regional Manager at The Training Room** (2011 - 2016)
  Management & development of tutoring staff, business development and strategic management
- **Lead Tutor (Manchester Academy) at The Training Room** (2010 - 2011)
  Tutoring and assessing of L2 and L3 personal trainer qualifications
- **Head of Personal Training, Exercise Referral Consultant & Member Service Manager (York) at Nuffield Health** (2004 - 2010)
  Management of a team of personal trainers, exercise referral for patients with various medical conditions, member service and retention
- **Marketing & Planning Manager (Organisations) at RNIB** (2003 - 2006)
  Collation and packaging of organisation-wide information for fundraiser's approaching donors.
- **Fitness Instructor (part-time) at Nuffield Health** (2002 - 2004)
  Part-time instructor, undertaking a variety of gym programming for a wide range of club members.
- **Corporate Fundraising Manager at RNIB** (1998 - 2003)
  Managing regional & national teams to achieve corporate fundraising targets
- **Corporate Fundraising Manager at John Grooms** (1996 - 1998)
  London, GB
- **Community Fundraising Manager at NSPCC** (1994 - 1996)

## Skills

### Other
- A1 Assessor
- Coaching
- Corrective Exercise
- Course Management
- Exercise Physiology
- Fitness
- Fitness Training
- Leadership
- Management
- Nutrition
- NVQs
- People Management
- Personal Development
- Personal Training
- Staff Development
- Staff Management
- Teaching
- Training
- Tutoring
- Wellness

## Publications

- Abandoned, Walberswick, Suffolk, 2026 — hawkinsweeks.leaflet.pub (Jul 2026) https://hawkinsweeks.leaflet.pub/3mrpmgzsvvc2k
- René Magritte — hawkinsweeks.pckt.blog (Jul 2026) https://hawkinsweeks.pckt.blog/rene-magritte-g46t55y

## Credentials

- Suspension Training — The Training Room (Jan 2013)
- L3 Designing Pre & Post Natal Exercise Programmes — Active IQ (Jan 2013)
- L4 Chronic Lower Back Pain — The WRIGHT Foundation (Nov 2011)
- L4 Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes & Practice — Active IQ (Sep 2011)
- A1 Asessor Award — Active IQ (Aug 2010)
- L4 Obesity and Diabetes — The WRIGHT Foundation (Aug 2009)
- L4 Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase IV — The WRIGHT Foundation (Nov 2007)
- CertEd — University of Huddersfield (Sep 2006)
- L3 Exercise Referral — The WRIGHT Foundation (Nov 2005)
- Personal Trainer Award — Central YMCA (Jul 2004)
- Spinning Instructor — Mad Dogg Athletics (May 2002)

## Education

- **University of Suffolk** — Bachelor of Arts - BA (Hons), Business Management (Sep 2019 - Sep 2022)

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhawkinsweeks/