Alison was born in Bury and has lived there all her life. She lives with her parents and two cats.

She trained to be a Registered General Nurse from 1989 – 1992 at South Manchester School of Nursing. After qualifying she worked in a private nursing home for five years and then has just completed seventeen years as a Senior Staff Nurse on a medical ward at North Manchester General Hospital. She is currently the Patient Flow Coordinator at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury, where she is responsible for the monitoring of the discharge progress of those patients who are medically fit for discharge and liaising with site management team.

She has been a regular church attender all her life and has been a Brownie leader at St. John’s for about twenty years. She is an active member of the church, and is involved in Baptism Preparation classes, a member of the PCC, a Deanery Synod rep and a member of the choir.

She is now an Authorised Lay Minister in Children’s Ministry, linking this in with the uniformed organisations.

 In her spare time she enjoys going out for meals with friends, singing in the church choir , playing the clarinet and keyboard , and watching TV.