Penny Swindells

Having  began farming  with her family business in Nottingham moved to Brant Broughton in 1974 and has been a senior partner since 1979. Penny has a wealth of knowledge with breeding and care of most breeds of dogs.

Penny now enjoys running Little Rascals from her family home with both her children and grandson.

Edward Swindells Bsc (dip surv) MNAVA

Having been guided and taught in respect of all aspects of running the business by his father (Edward) up until 1989, Edward became a senior director of the business and currently takes day to day responsibility of running the business and all staff management. Edward is also a qualified property and chattels auctioneer and member of the RICS running a regular local property auction.

Bridgett Dickens

Bridgett, is our senior operations director and manages all aspects of the puppy breeding and welfare. She is also a fully qualified groomer having gained her national diploma in 2004.

After having gained 15 years initial experience in the industry in the east midlands and southern counties Bridgett returned to the family business in 1996 along with her husband Pete and son Edward.

Peter Dickens

Pete has extensive experience has qualifications in livestock and dog breeding and is a well respected and reknowned livestock judge throughout the country. Having worked with his father in the southern counties he joined Bridgett in the business in 1996 and is now a senior partner.

Donna Kelly

Donna joined the Swindells group of companies from William H Brown estate agents in February 2010. Donna is permanent PA to all the directors and manages and oversees all aspects of the business whether dealing with puppy customers, advising clients and both negotiating and overseeing our property and farming enterprises. Donna lives in Ancaster with her boyfriend Pete and puppy Scamp!

Jane

Jane joined our business in the latter part of February 2010 having gained extensive experience in customer services having worked for a number of corporate companies in and around Lincolnshire including Mercedes of Lincoln and Heron of Newark. In Jane’s day to day role she deals with customer enquiries and also acts as our property auction administrator taking care of enquiries and undertaking viewings throughout the Lincolnshire and Cambridge area. Jane lives with her husband Daren a keen snooker player in Bardney on the outskirts of Lincoln.

Sorrel Jones

Sorrel came to the business in August 2006. Having gained a wealth of experience within the Lincolnshire area and an extensive knowledge in accounting, Sorrel is our senior accounts administrator managing all aspects of this side of our business. Sorrel now lives in Oxford with her husband Craig and their two children, Lewis and Erin.

Aurel Cirpaci

Aurel gained initial experience working in kennels in the north of the country. He moved to the Lincolnshire area and joined the business in December 2007 as our senior kennel assistant.

Angelo Cirpaci

Angelo came to live with us as part of the family in January 2008 and having trained for the past two years joined the business in earnest to become a Senior Kennel Manager in January 2010 and now takes care of all aspects of the dog breeding and property maintenance side of the business seven days a week and is always on hand to assist visiting customers.

Martin Marshall

Martin joined our business in March 2010 in order to assist Aurel and Angelo our kennel managers with the day to day care of our breeding mothers and their puppies. Martin is present with us from 7am until 2pm every day assisting with the care of the dogs. Martin comes from central Lincoln and lives with his wife and family and is a keen pigeon fancier and dog breeder in his own right.