I had looked at various billing companies but if honest had been turned off rightly or wrongly, by the apparent high pressure ‘american’ approach that seemed to be prevalent at the time.

I am more than happy to admit that my perception may have been wrong but it was what I believed at the time and so kept looking.

Around 8 years ago I happened by pure chance on the NEST stand at the SENI exhibition. I was met by the smiling face of Joy who eased any worries I might have that NEST were a company who wanted to tell me how to teach my Martial Art and ‘interfere’ with what we did, but rather than were there to support and help.

A trip to Nottingham a few weeks later to discuss things in more detail with Gerard and we were on board. It’s a decision I have never regretted and I fully believe that a lot of the success we have had is down directly to that decision we made that day.

Lastly, and the best bit really, is the one thing that has been proved to me is that the better the business, the better the Martial Art. As we have grown as a business we have never had to compromise our standards to grow. Through implementing the ideas from NEST we were able to give our classes a better structure and therefore we were able to cater better for the needs of each of our members. Certainly the standard of student taking their black belt each year with us has never been better and our continued success on the competitive front hopefully bears that out as well. I look forward to working with NEST for years to come’