Nathan Littleton - Director
Nathan's a self made man in the very sense of the word. Although, obviously, his parents did get involved at
some point. He's got business interests all over – mainly in the web design field. He runs a company called Future
Visions, as well as being a Director of Simply Associates Limited. He might turn up for either Espresso or
WebWorks courses that you book with us – he was 50% of the team that wrote WebWorks, and he is a Barista Maestro
italian coffee trainer.
Nic Parkes - Director
Nic's a creative little bundle of uncontrolable ideas that sometimes are just downright silly. He's got fingers
in web design, the media – whatever that is – and businesses such as Simply Associates. He’s a Barista Maestro
itlalian coffee trainer. Most of Espresso was written by him, and he's the other half of WebWorks – so he could turn
up teaching at your school too.
Karen Yates
Karen is a bit of an odd one for us to list as an associate. She's related to Nic (She's his Aunty)
but she also has a business that does lots of training and change management within the NHS. She’s useful to have
around for general guidance and for a reminder that life can be fun. She also gets involved in lots of project management
and stuff – and as far as we're concerned that's bloody good.
You can find out more about Karen at Karen Yates Associates.
Craig Ross
Craig is a photographer who may or may not be involved in some other projects such as window cleaning. He's
passionate about his work, whatever it is, though, and that’s why we use him for anything remotely related to images.
You can find out more about Craig at craig-ross.co.uk.
Mary Collin
Nathan works quite closely with Mary. She's an ACTIONcoach, which means she's very into everything. You might find
her around somewhere giving 'You made my day' cards to traffic wardens or to mothers being nice to their children. She's
lovely, and full of good advice. That gets her here. And hopefully gets you there too.
You can find out more about Mary at MaryCollin.co.uk.
James Pogson
James loves tea. He also loves coffee. His number plate features the word 'tea'. He's from a company called
Northern Tea Merchants, and he has a nice amount of enthusiasm and coffee beans. Which is again, good. He’s our associate
when we work with new clients who need some coffee, or when we're working for people he's found to provide the training.
You should visit his shop, since it is a place of wonder and excitement for all.
You can find out more about James' company, Northern Tea Merchants, at the Northern Tea Merchants website.
Simply Associates itself started off life as an informal business partnership between Nathan & Nic back in around 2002. Our first proper project for which we got paid was a Web Hosting company, before we quickly moved away from that and into something far more fantastic and interesting like training. Since then, we've worked for schools all over Worcestershire, and moved into the whole world of coffee.
The coffee thing sounds like a bit of an accident, but no-one can deny that once you've talked coffee with either Nathan or Nic that there isn't a passion there. In fact, you can smell them coming sometimes - only the smell of some lovely Robusta though, cheeky.
Since we started life we've refined exactly what it is we want to do. Although it's not world domination, it's getting pretty close.
