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VETNET LLN in Eastern
Contact details & summary for VETNET LLN Eastern Region.
The Eastern Region is managed by John Butcher
Contact Details
John Butcher
VETNET LLN - Eastern Region
c/o University of Cambridge
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Madingly Road
Cambridge
CB3 0ES
Tel: 07793 804078
Cambridge Office: 01223 337600
Cambridge Fax: 01223 337610
jabutcher@vetnetlln.ac.uk
Biography
Lovers of cats will know that they have nine-lives; well John is into his seventh!
John’s early years were spent in Wiltshire, attending schools in Wiltshire and Dorset and learning about life in a rural setting. His wish to become a teacher came true after three years of study in Bristol.
The first school John taught in was a real culture-shock; it was an all-boys school in the middle of an estate in Merseyside. After a few years he moved into Essex and settled into a different quality of life here in the east of England. Working in three schools in Essex over the next decade was followed by a post within the Inspection and Advisory service.
When the posts were re-organised, John chose to move into consultancy and set-up his own company, which ran successfully for many years. Clients included local, regional and national organisations, including working for councils and government departments as well as private-sector companies.
An invitation to work in the university sector – an area he had never explored – was too good to miss, and John spent over a decade working in Anglia Ruskin University to support students during their transition from school and college into university. John became one of the most experienced practitioners in the field of widening participation throughout the East of England and was well known and highly respected in schools and colleges across the region.
An advert in the Guardian newspaper brought John out of early-retirement and back to working with learners and their teachers. The post as VETNET LLN Regional Manager sees John, once again, experiencing new and exciting areas of activity across the region.
John’s other lives revolve around his family and his charity work. His family covers thirty-five years of marriage to the same person, two sons and two daughters-in-law, and one grandson.
His charity work, as a member of his local Rotary Club, has seen him driving lorries of aid to Kosovo and Croatia during the fighting in the mid 1990s and also gathering the funds to build (and then open) two new schools in deprived areas of Kenya.
