Heather Heber-Percy is well known throughout the UK dating industry since she started up her own dating agency called Country Partners, in 1983. The agency became a huge success and covered the entire country at a time when there were only four other dating agencies – introduction agencies as they were called then – in the UK. Huge positive media coverage helped to provide a much-needed and trustworthy dating service in both Town and Country areas. Heather’s background at the time was as a trainer for The Samaritans. She continued with the Samaritans for a further ten years at various centres throughout the country.

In the 1990s, Heather went on to create another specialised dating service called The County Register and was the first person in the UK to come up with the idea of headhunting for people wanting to find a partner in life. Heather also became a Director of Praxis, a well known Interim Management Company based in the Midlands – one of the first of its kind. The founder and CEO Carl Hague had enormously creative ideas that spilled over into Heather’s own business, helping her to develop The County Register even further.

Again in the 1990s, Heather became the Chairman of The Association of British Introduction Agencies, but resigned in 2020, to help further develop The Dating Agency Association, a newer and forward-thinking Association that traditional dating agencies within the UK today may wish to become a part of.

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