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<ref> LighterLife Limited Reports and Accounts 28 February 2997 accessed 1 December 2007 </ref> | <ref> LighterLife Limited Reports and Accounts 28 February 2997 accessed 1 December 2007 </ref> | ||
Revision as of 17:44, 1 December 2007
LighterLife is a diet company. In 2006 it provided almost £200,000 to The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust - around 80% of its budget.[1]
Trading?
LighterLife have an live website, are advertising several vacancies and appear to be very active. However, according to the company accounts of 28 February 2007, lodged with companies House. The company "has not traded or made profits or losses during the year" [2]
People
Directors
- Bar Hewlett - Director
- Rebecca Margaret Hunter Director
- Jacqueline Sandra Ann Cox - Director
- Paul Edwin Whitmell - Company Secretary
Spokespeople
- Bar Hewlett - Director
Bar Hewlett is a Director and Co-founder of LighterLife. Bar is an accomplished industry speaker and an expert on all topics surrounding obesity such as: • Long-term weight-management • Cognitive behavioural therapy • Transactional analysis • Psychology of obesity • ‘Trigger’ foods • Ketosis and the science of weight-loss • Medical implications of obesity
Bar has appeared extensively on TV and radio, ranging from local Radio to BBC and GMTV; she has presented at International Obesity Conferences, Guild of Healthwriters Awards and has also contributed to the International Journal of Obesity.
She firmly believes that reducing calorie intake alone is not enough to combat obesity, but that it is also vital to change thinking; to change inside as well as outside to better understand and manage food relationships. This combination of the abstinence model and counselling is the extremely powerful foundation of the LighterLife Programme. Bar was the first LighterLife Counsellor and ran LighterLife Counselling sessions until 2004. Bar has an engineering degree and various teaching qualifications from Cambridge University.
- Octavia Morley - Chief Executive Octavia joined LighterLife in May 2006 as Chief Executive. She has extensive experience in the retail industry in roles covering trading, marketing, ecommerce and finance. She was most recently Commercial Director at Woolworths plc. Octavia started her career in investment banking, with seven years at Goldman Sachs International.
- Sara Jamison – Sales & Marketing Director Sara joined LighterLife in January 2007. Prior to this she held Marketing Director roles at The Virgin Cosmetics Company and Iceland Frozen Foods and has a broad commercial background across marketing, sales and operations.
- Juliette du Plessis – Programme Director
Juliette joined LighterLife in 2001. Her responsibilities include managing the corporate medical strategy to ensure compliance with industry best practice as well as ongoing research. She is also the lead on programme development and ensures the LighterLife Programme gives obese clients the best chance of losing and maintaining their weight. She has contributed to cognitive behavioural therapy and transactional analysis materials. Juliette has a background in Psychology and Law and her career to date has involved roles covering sales, recruitment, human resources, operations, marketing and most recently research and development.[3]
- Stuart Keir Web Projects Manager[4]
Affiliations
- British Nutrition Foundation, member [5]
Contact
http://www.lighterlife.com/index.cgi LighterLife Uk Ltd Cavendish House Parkway Harlow Business Park Harlow Essex CM19 5QF
Notes
- ↑ The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust Limited (Trading as T.O.A.S.T) (A company limited by guarantee) Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 September 2006 Registered Charity Number -'i088049 Company Number - 4664883, accessed 29 November 2007
- ↑ LighterLife Limited Reports and Accounts 28 February 2997 accessed 1 December 2007
- ↑ LighterLife, Press Pack, accessed 30 November 2007
- ↑ Linked In Stuart Keir, accessed 29 November 2007
- ↑ BNF Members, accessed 29 November 2007
