Us

In our 5th generation we have a passion for business succeeding in our awesome place!
We recreated Thomas Jardine & Co to SHINE a LIGHT on the wealth of small and mid sized businesses in our region. Those awesome entrepreneurs and generational family businesses with so many multifaceted skills. Now in our 5th generation, we take all our history and heritage forward to unscramble the noise and save time for small and mid-sized firms in the Northern counties of England and Southern regions of Scotland. A fine Borders Family who have moved from Farmers to Grocers to C-Store Retailers to Consulting and Coworking Space. Not afraid to change as each generation brings their passion to the fore!

Bursting with heritage, but never old…

It’s in our blood!

The Guild , Abbey Street, Carlisle, Tuesday 30th June 2020
JENNY WOOLGAR PHOTOGRAPHY

Jacqueline Jackson (MA, Dist, Cert. Ed)…the Family Guru!

I’m a 4th Generation Partner of Thomas Jardine & Co, a Non-Exec Director, an Ambassador for SME Productivity and an Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University. Now in our 5^th generation, Thomas Jardine & Co has moved from Farming to Grocery to C-store Retailing to Consulting and Co-Working. Never afraid to change by taking our heritage with us!

My role is Thomas Jardine & Co’s expert in Leadership Learning with a wealth of experience in Board Facilitation, Exec Team performance; Peer Group Facilitation, generational handover in Family Business and SME Growth. I want entrepreneurs and generational family businesses to succeed in our place and for our region to be the best in class – a vibrant business ecosystem!

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Keith Jackson, (MA Dist)…the Foodie Nut!

For me, it’s all about the food eco-system. At Thomas Jardine and Co, I have worked with individuals, businesses, academic institutions, regional government and national government bodies to ensure the vibrancy of the food eco-system.

My current role in Thomas Jardine & Co is research lead, keeping us up to date with current business thinking within the food eco-system and bringing this thinking to our coaching sessions.

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Dan Jackson, (BA Hons)…The Guild Chief!

I’m the 5th generation of Thomas Jardine & Co. We are on a mission to inspire confidence in business to grow and flourish through each growth stage.

My Current role is taking the lead on developing our coworking arm. We have started with The Guild, introducing the BRILLIANT coworking format to Carlisle. I want to bring this kind of vibrant work space to our wonderful region as it is now a global phenomenon, coworking spaces are popping up in most major cities with an annual growth rate of 24.2%. I truly believe more coworking spaces in our incredible region will help the phenomenal talent we have flourish and not feel like they have to move to the bigger cities to thrive!

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What do businesses say about us?

Jacqui has a range of highly developed academic capabilities and business skills, these make her versatile, knowledgeable and a go to person for advice. Working under Jacqui’s tutelage at Lancaster University gave me the opportunity to see what really counts in business and that is people skills.

Jacqui guided, coaxed and encouraged a diverse group of people running very diverse businesses and we all came away with the same understanding and confidence. We all felt very different to each other when we embarked on our LEAD course but by the end we acknowledged that we all had the same fears and challenges and that skills definitely are transferrable.

Apart from all that she is also a wonderful human being so you can’t go far wrong

Sandra Cottam-Shea, Managing Director, SCS Logistics Ltd