From Tin 2 Toast
Added: (Wed May 21 2008)
Pressbox (Press Release) -
A Toast to the Lancashire lad who has 'returned' home.
Keith Kneebone was born in 1945 in Dalton-in-Furness, a town to which his Cornish ancestors had moved in the mid-nineteenth century.
He attended Dowdales County Secondary School and upon leaving with a very modest handful of qualifications began his employment in the Magistrates' Court Office in Barrow as an office clerk for the princely sum of £5.1s. per week. After a short while he joined thousands of other Furnessians at the ragion's biggest employer - the local shipyard - as a wages clerk.
However, for Keith, though very fond of the Lake District on his very doorstep, being stuck in the 'wild northern wastes' of Lancashire was not for him so he, with a pal, moved to Leicester to seek his fortune.
The move happened to be one of the best he ever made. He found independence and over the next few years his career saw him move from office clerk to manager in differing spheres including engineering and wines & spirits.
He got married in Burton-upon-Trent and almost inevitably in the 'home of British brewing' began working for a brewery - Marston's. Whilst there redundancy reared its ugly head and it was at this point in his life he decided to become self-employed as a Toastmaster and put what his late mother taught him as a boy (public speaking) to good use.
He was building up a respectable reputation within the East Midlands when personal problems saw the break-up of his marriage.
No matter what had happened during his varied life, Keith had always felt that his heart belonged somewhere else and one night it dawned on him that that somewhere else was his beloved Cornwall. So in March, 2007 (The 12th. to be precise) he moved 'back' to his ancestral home and has continued his self-employed lifestyle by re-naming his company 'Kernow Courtesy'. www.kernowcpourtesy.com
As a spiritual person, it should come as little surprise that Keith is an active member of his local Methodist Chapel, Camborne Wesley.
As a business person, Keith recognises the need to network his business in a face-to-face environment. Kernow Courtesy aims to put people at ease by making the times they spend together worthwhile and rewarding so Keith spends a great deal of his time meeting with potential clients and other people at networking events.
Notably, Keith is the official Toastmaster of 'The Business League', breakfast networking group who have a club the 'Trevithick', which meets every Friday at the Lowenac Hotel in Camborne of which he is official club secretary.
Please contact Keith if you have an important function that requires a professional compere or you run a hotel that wishes to capture his unique, friendly talents for its customers' benefits.
01209 714317 keith@kernowcourtesy.com