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Members Profiles

Each member has their own unique profile written for them which is updatable at any time.

A standard profile is written based on the information you provide on your application from.

An enhanced profile is where we spent half an hour with you on the telephone asking you much more about you and your life. From this conversation we then write up a much more informed (possibly more rounded) profile which can set you apart from other members.

All members profiles give you all the information you need to make a decision about whether to contact or reply to someone who has contacted you.

See below for how a standard and enhanced profile would look and the sort of information it includes. Photographs are optional - many people include them - some don't - it's entirely up to you.

Standard profiles for a man and a woman

Name: Jenny, Age 37 from London
Height: 5 ft 7 inches	Tel: xxxxx - xxxxxx
Build: Slim	Email: xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com
Nationality: British	Box Number: xxxx
Jenny went to school in Cornwall and then trained as a nurse at St. Barts in London. She worked in a variety of places, including Jerusalem. She has spent the last 10 years in London doing an Arts degree and she is currently working as a Nurse Practioner. Jenny is single, attends a conventional C of E church and describes her faith as strong and personal with a trusting belief in the unseen. She describes herself as shy, happy, kind and considerate. Jenny enjoys walking, food and cooking, gardening, travelling, arts, cinema and art galleries. She doesn't have any particularly strong dislikes but she does not smoke and dislikes too much TV, and selfishness in others. Jenny would like to meet someone aged between x and y who is honest, generous, keen on outdoor pursuits, easy going and who has a sense of humour. She would like to live in the country eventually.

Our enhanced profile service

In the profiles below we show you how Anthony's profile looked as a standard profile and then how it read as an enhanced profile.

Enhanced profiles are not always necessarily longer, although they may be in some instances.

Standard profile                                                                                         Enhanced profile

Name: Anthony, Age 64 from Hove Height: 5ft10 Tel: xxxxx - xxxxxx Build: Average Email: xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com Nationality: British   Box Number: xxxx Anthony is an only child from a Christian family. He got his RAF commission at 18 and resigned after 7 years to teach. He has an honours degree and has been teaching for 20 years full time and supply. He has been a full time carer for his mother for 4 years and a manual worker at a school for 6 years. He attends an Anglican church and his faith is well rooted in the Church of England leaning towards Evangelicalism not high church/Anglo-catholic. He is still searching for answers. Anthony is single with no children and describes himself as positive, cheerful, caring and well-balanced. He enjoys reading, film, theatre, meals with friends, music in most forms, walking, church activities , looking after his home and garden and his friends. He dislikes thoughtlessness and selfish noise. Anthony would like to meet someone who is practical, enjoys the home and who has a sense of humour.

Name: Anthony, Age 64 from Hove Height: 5ft10 Tel: xxxxx - xxxxxx Build: Average Email: xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com Nationality: British Box Number: xxxx Anthony is an only child from a loving Christian family. He enjoyed and thrived in many activities at school, then followed a childhood dream receiving his RAF commission at 18. He loved the RAF but missed using his creative side, so resigned after 7 years in order to teach which he did after gaining an honours degree from Sussex University. He taught for 20 years full time and supply and was good at it - caring and conscientious. He left teaching in order to become a full time carer for his mother for 4 years - something he has never had cause to regret. When she died he found a job in the housekeeping department of a multi-purpose facility on the south coast run by a national service-linked charity. He has been working there for the past 6 years. Anthony attends an Anglican church. His faith is critical to him - especially working it out practically. However he is still searching for answers, and is open to hearing the perspectives of other Christians. He values Proverbs 3: v 4-5 as it reminds him that God is in charge. Surprised by never having married - due to a variety of circumstances rather than choice, Anthony describes himself as positive, cheerful and caring. His friends say he is good company and a thoughtful listener. He thoroughly enjoys reading, film, theatre, music in most forms and is hard pressed to name his favourite in any of these so many there are. People who get to know him are surprised to find he does not own a washing machine and does it all by hand - a good chance to listen to his favourite music! His many friendships are very important to him - some of which go back over 50 years. He also enjoys walking, church activities and looking after his home and garden. He is greatly saddened and angered by child abuse and women being forced into prostitution. Anthony is very keen to find a caring, sharing, loving relationship. He looks forward to learning to be a proper cook, rather than a capable assembler of meals. Whilst he has enjoyed travel abroad he's presently content discovering and rediscovering the UK.