Meet Your Colleagues - Andrea Foster

Here at SERC we are keen to promote internal colleagues to allow staff the opportunity to get to know each other and put a face to the name, particularly due to the size and scope of SERC.  With this in mind, “Meet your Colleagues” is a fun Q and A exercise to help raise awareness of people’s roles within SERC and allows you to get to know more about your fellow colleagues.  

This week’s, “Meet your Colleagues” features Andrea Foster. Andrea is one of the Apprenticeship Development Managers within the Training Organisation Department at SERC.

What does your role at SERC involve?  

My role within SERC involves engaging and networking with employers, businesses, organisations, local councils and schools to promote Apprenticeship N.I. and Higher-Level Apprenticeships that are available at SERC.

Tell us a bit about your background?  

Before coming to SERC I worked for a Charity and Social Enterprise.  Our main aim was to get sustainable employment for people with Learning Difficulties, Disabilities and Autism.

What 3 words best describe you?  

Big Curly Hair😊

What do you like to do outside of work?  

The usual, spending time with family and friends.  I like running and trying to keep reasonably fit. I also volunteer for different charity events which vary from Mud Runs and bag packing, to Strictly Come Dancing for Tiny Life.  I also love to travel.

If you could swap jobs for a day who would it be and why?  

Oh, I think it would have to be the President of the United States because of the wonderful things you could do in that job in just 24 hours alone.  You could find out if there really is an “Area 51 or is there a tunnel under the white house where JFK used to sneak Marilyn in? Finding out all those past presidential secrets would be amazing and of course taking a ride in Air Force One wouldn’t be bad either!

List 3 items you would want with you if you were stranded on a deserted island?  

A helicopter, fuel and auto pilot to get me off it!

What is your favourite film and why?  

I love the Alien films – always have.  They were so ahead of their time – the imagination and creativity; not to mention the incredible storyline.  I love the fact that Ripley (the heroine) is smart, courageous, intuitive and female.  For a film released in 1979 it was, as I said, it was ahead of its time.

Where do you most want to travel, but have never been?  

Too many to mention!  If I had to look at the top of my list though it would be Vietnam as it’s meant to be just like the Americans left it and I’d love to see the Hoi Chi Minh Trail.   

I’d like to see Cuba too as it’s also meant to be like stepping back in time.  One of the places I visited in the summer was Florence however we didn’t have time to see Michelangelo’s David so I think first and foremost I will be going back to see David.

If you would like to partake in “Meet Your Colleagues” please contact Roisin Morgan (Marketing and Engagement Intern) at rmorgan@serc.ac.uk for more details.