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Vanessa Townshend FPFS

Chartered Financial Planner & Director of Financial Planning

Vanessa is a highly experienced Chartered Financial Planner who joined Perspective in October 2025 following an acquisition.

She began her career in 1998 on a graduate scheme at an IFA firm in Guildford and has since developed extensive experience across all areas of financial planning. 

She is a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society, a Chartered Financial Planner and a SOLLA accredited Later Life. Vanessa specialises in retirement and later life planning, advising individuals, attorneys and trustees on retirement, investment and inheritance matters. She also holds the STEP Foundation Certificate in trust and trustee investment and was named Personal Finance Society Retirement and Later Life of the Year in 2018/19. 

Vanessa provides advice tailored to each client’s goals and preferences, focusing on their lives rather than just their finances. Her approach is relaxed and conversational, building clear, flexible plans over time, and she particularly enjoys the variety and depth that comprehensive financial planning brings. 

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Preston Office

Springfield House
Navigation Way
Preston
Lancashire
PR2 2YP

Telephone: 01772729742

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