Mary Murphy
Trustee

After a successful career as a general manager in the travel and tourism industry, Mary changed career and became a teacher in post-16 education. Twenty-two years later she is Principal of Riverside College Halton and Cronton Sixth Form College, having worked previously in two highly successful colleges in the North West.

Mary is passionate about education and her own career path is testament to this having left school at 16 to study Hospitality, Catering and Institutional Management at Nelson and Colne College and then Huddersfield Polytechnic.

She has a wealth of industrial and educational experience and alongside her team of teaching, support and training staff she invests in young people and adults to ensure that they all have opportunities to fulfil their potential.