Hi my name is James and in the words of Martin Luther King...................... "I have a dream"

Every story has a beginning middle and an end it’s the ending in looking for help with.

I was born in Manchester but at a very early age moved to Cornwall where my parents bought a hotel which both he and my mother successfully ran for 10 years, my father never went out to just socialise if he saw an opportunity he would grab it with both hands and get what he could from it.

He surrounded himself with the right people who could help him and who he could in turn help and was known as an Entrepreneur.

I am my father’s son................. I have a number of ideas in my head that I know will work all I lack is the collateral to make it so.

I left school at 16 with a fixed firm idea of joining the Army however my father would not sign my paper work allowing me to join as a boy soldier instead he insisted I had a trade to fall back on should I not like army life.

While getting my haircut for my Monday morning interview I got talking to the Barber after telling him my story he offered me a Job and that is where I started my apprenticeship as a Barber.

Three years later I was in the Territorial Army I had a career as a barber and life was great I moved back to Manchester where I worked for the next 10 years as manager and share holder of a successful barber shop.

In 2004 while still in the TA I was sent to Iraq, while in Iraq I was badly injured and for the next eighteen months had to sit back and allow my body to repair its self.

It was at this point that I met my wife who was also a hairdresser I went back to work myself and started to think about the future, I felt my future was with my then girlfriend and so moved to the North East where I now live with my family.

This was when I met two of the most influential people in my life, Alastair Waite and Maitland Hyslop it was while cutting Alastair’s hair that he offered me a job in his IT Company and it was while working at Onyx that I met Maitland.

I worked with Alastair for four years in which time I retrained as a professional tutor and changed my career from IT to security building and enhancing on my Military Knowledge gained from the Territorial Army and in particular the Royal Military Police.

I left Onyx in 2010 and since then have worked on a number of different security projects as a personal protection officer in all this time though my dream of owning a chain of barber shops has never been far from my mind.

But as the Paul Simon lyric goes in “diamonds on the soles of her shoes” ..........................I’m empty as a pocket