Author: davidstrafford

WSET Level 1 Award in Wine

In January 2022, I decided I wanted to start my learning journey into the world of Wine, so I booked myself onto a one day course, run by the brilliant Manchester Wine School. I can’t recommend this Level 1 course enough, if like me you have an interest in wine, but want to formalise it…


Teaching English as a foreign language

I have recently completed an online teaching qualification with TEFL, teaching English as a foreign language. This was a really useful course for me in a number of ways. Firstly, I am increasingly finding myself teaching international students which I love doing – and this course has helped me see the English language through their…


J’ai commencé à apprendre le français!

One thing I would love to do in the future, is to be able to speak more French whenever I visit France. So I’ve started re-learning the basics, I’m finding my GCSE French is slowly coming back to me and hopefully I’ll be able to converse with more French people when in France, even if…


Hello and welcome

Welcome to my website Hello and welcome to my site.  My name is David Strafford and I’m an experienced events professional and freelance teacher and lecturer in Higher Education, with a wide range of international experience.  I’ve been working in the events industry in some capacity since I started promoting my own nightclub events whilst…