Member Spotlight
Melanie Newdick
Your Event Expert
01463 690050
www.youreventexpert.co.uk
Mixed is probably a good way to describe the career history of Melanie who started off her working life in trucks and transport, spending 8 years travelling the country selling truck mounted cranes. One of her favourite trips used to be to the Black Isle Show, despite the long drive from Peterborough – little did she know then that the Highlands would later become her home. After working with cranes she moved into organising events and also started working as a tour guide – a job which took her overseas to live in Italy for 2 years and has also taken her to Australia, China and most of Europe too. A period of illness forced her to give up travelling for a while and Melanie set up a 24 hour call centre dealing with emergency breakdown calls. This involved running a team of over 20 people in Birmingham. It was then back to breakdown trucks when she worked alongside her father operating a breakdown service in Grimsby. There she drove her beloved Mercedes slidebed truck and was often out in the early hours collecting cars from ditches and such like.
It was then she moved up to the Highlands and helped her husband start his business as a small machine operator – building up to 2 mini diggers and two trailers operating from their renovated home in Alness. During this time Melanie went back to organising events and combines this with project management now in the Highlands area.
Melanie loves the Highlands and has now managed to move all her family up to the area. They all enjoy a much higher quality of life, with fantastic scenery all year round and friendly people too.
Melanie recently completed work on Living Food at Cawdor Castle. The brief was to make the event sustainable and put in place measures to secure it’s long term future. She is also working on an arts regeneration project in Invergordon, together with a tourism marketing project in Ullapool as well as working as the Membership and Events contact for Fusion.
Melanie is a keen networker and enjoys meeting new businesses. “We have a wealth of truly fascinating businesses in the Highlands and I am lucky enough to meet some of the most interesting in my role working with Fusion – I am constantly surprised and amazed by the talent we have and have found the Highlands one of the best places to do business too”.
