Chris is the Senior Quality and Standards manager at WorldSkills UK, an organisation delivering skills excellence across the UK, helping young people thrive and employers grow. He leads a team that designs benchmarking resources to support educators in developing learners to achieve excellence in technical and vocational skills, enabling them to secure high-quality careers and deliver the world class skills employers need.
He is an experienced educationalist, having spent his professional career sharing his broad technical and vocational skills and knowledge with a belief that training with education and industry firmly go hand in hand to benefit others and protect skills in communities.
As a trained furniture craftsman and antique restorer, he led for three decades the outstanding specialist professional furniture craft education and training centre in Oxfordshire, known as Rycotewood Furniture. At Rycotewood, he wrote national apprenticeship standards and assessment strategies, designed and delivered all levels of furniture qualifications and promoted apprenticeship delivery for the furniture industry, including for The Royal Household.
His voluntary work includes co-creating the ‘Thame Shed,’ a community workshop where others can meet and make or fix things. He is also an assistant to the Court at the Furniture Makers Livery Company and the Chairperson of the Education and Training Committee, providing industry opportunities and supporting the next generation. He is a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute, contributing to Heritage Craft discussions.
