About us at Move4words

Move4words Director:

Dr Elizabeth McClelland (PhD)

Elizabeth, also known as Buffy, is a former University Lecturer in Geophysics, Environmental Sciences and Volcanology at the University of Oxford. She was a highly respected scientist in the field, and held a Royal Society Research Fellowship for 10 years.

Following a severe viral infection in 1998, Elizabeth developed an acquired dyslexia, finding it almost impossible to read complicated documents. After two difficult years, she eventually found a solution and used sensory training, which lead to a major sea-change in her career.

From 2001 to 2009, she ran a private clinic for children and adults with learning challenges, using sensory development techniques. During this time, she gradually developed the methodology which has become Move4words.

Since 2006, Elizabeth has been involved in running school trials of large-group sensory awareness programmes culminating in the current Oxford trials of Move4words. She has written and produced the complete Move4words programme including all video and audio production.

Elizabeth still retains a Geophysics research link with Dr Conall Mac Niocaill at Oxford University and is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University.

Career Highlights:

Move4words Education Consultant:

Mannie McClelland

Mannie has 25 years experience of working in Education, first serving as a primary school teacher for ten years, then as an Educational Psychologist, in the London Borough of Croyden and then in West Sussex.

This included working to set up a SureStart programme, and being a Supervisor for the Portage pre-school home visiting service. Mannie has Senior Practioner status.

Mannie has had a long-standing interest in the development of literacy, in early child development and the support of children with additional or special needs. She believes strongly in the benefits of movement, rhythmic and musical activities, and considers that these can play a very important role in every child's development.

Mannie currently works as a professional musician, and runs music workshops for young children.

Career Highlights:

Move4words: an ethical company

Move4words is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (a new company structure designed  for ethical enterprise).

Any eventual profits will be returned to the UK schools community via low prices, bursaries to schools in deprived areas, etc.

Our main focus is in areas of deprivation, but we are happy to work with any school in the UK.

The Company was set up by Dr McClelland in January 2011. Elizabeth and her husband Bryan Finegan have provided the capital to start up the business, thanks to a small inheritance from Elizabeth's parents.

Move4words is a Community Interest Company, registered in England and Wales (registered number 7494713), and is a Limited Company.

Registered address 5000 Oxford Business Park South, Oxford, OX4 2BH

(this address is NOT for correspondence, except from Companies House, so please use the contact us form). 

Community Interest Companies

● The Community Interest Company (CIC) is a new company structure designed by the UK Government for ethical enterprise. You can read more about the structure at the Government's Department for Business Innovation and Skills website here.

● Move4words Community Interest Company is a registered CIC and is under the control of the CIC regulator to ensure ethical practice and non-profit-making.

● Move4words CIC is a member of the Community Interest Company Association.