Elle Fran lives in England, but has an equally strong Irish background, making her at one and the same time romantic and cynical! She was trained as a Social Worker, working over the years with a vast variety of people, problems and needs - from pre-school infants to recidivist prisoners, from people with Alzheimers to immigrants, from alcohol and drug addicts to teenagers with problems caused by both nature and nurture … and much in between.
For an essential balance in life, she also ran The Performing Arts Medicine Trust, a charity set up to link struggling and injured dancers, actors, singers, musicians, acrobats … et al … with the right medical help and advice.
She also worked for a lot of years in a unit of Cranfield University offering practical and inspirational advice to businesses and individuals by linking them with appropriate expertise. In addition, for light relief and out of interest in the Press, the media, and the dissemination of information around the world, she spent an eventful, informative and interesting 12 months minuting meetings for the National Union of Journalists!
She is a graduate of both the University of North London and Loughborough University, having a Diploma in Social Policy and latterly as a very mature student embarked on a Master's Degree in Social Policy at Loughborough University.
But far more than all of that, she has learned more from life itself and despite everything most fortuitously, Elle Fran still just likes people .... warts and all!
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