A love of the ‘new’
When I was young, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I went to the United States to be a nanny. I started volunteering in a school there in my free time – I loved it.
After returning to the UK and having my daughter, I went to college at 25 to study education and training. The government had just introduced the Sure Start scheme, which aimed to give children the best possible start in life, with an emphasis on community development, and I got my first “real job” as a family support worker. It was a new developmental thing, which I love. From there, I became a fathers’ development worker and then a parent support advisor in schools – another new initiative.
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