Wiltshire-based Family Wise is celebrating working with their digital marketing apprentice Ethan Thompson for a year.
The 20-year-old who lives in Chiseldon, near Swindon, joined the team a year ago to broaden his skills in digital marketing and hopes to qualify early in 2026.
“Things are going well. The team is extremely friendly, easy to get on with and hard working. I’d like to think I bring my own personal attributes to the team. This work does require discipline, but I appreciate the freedom I’m given to come up with my own ideas,” Ethan said.
Ethan has fitted into the Family Wise ethos of hard work, proactivity and positivity. He’s full of entrepreneurial spirit having started his first business aged 15, which still exists today, and he also has three other business side hustles on the go from clothing to digital marketing.
“It’s not easy, nothing is, but if you work hard and want it enough, you’ll eventually get there,” Ethan said.
“I joined this forward-thinking team to continue to grow my skills in digital marketing which has value in this role and in my own micro businesses. Kirsty, our founder, encourages us all to be proactive and to offer up ideas and I find that creates an energy within the business which inspires me.”
Ethan, as a digital marketing apprentice and he works in partnership with MD Kirsty Gray and provider, Professional Apprenticeships.
A former student of Ridgeway School in Wroughton, Ethan works in the marketing and business development team at Family Wise on their digital content across various social media platforms and he also works on the company’s insightful blogs and outreach to grow the business.
Founder and managing director of Family Wise, Kirsty Gray, said “Ethan is proactive, enthusiastic and full of ideas, which is just what we need. We may be a company steeped in history, but we firmly believe that history is something which is always relevant and that we are ahead of the curve in bringing history to life for individuals, families and organisations.”
Outside work, Ethan is passionate about sport, particularly football, mixed martial arts and darts. He can often be found at the gym. Ethan is now one of more than 40 Family Wise team members working across the world to support people in building their family trees, tracing heirs in estates, and uncovering mysteries in people’s histories. For more information visit https://family-wise.co.uk/
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