So much has changed in the year which gave us a global pandemic that it can be hard to reconcile original intentions with the current reality.
At the start of 2020, amid all of my usual well-intended New Year’s resolutions to learn a new language and improve my culinary skills, I set myself a resolution which I was actually able to keep; to start volunteering with the Wave Project in Brighton.
The Wave Project is a small UK-wide charity which uses surfing to help young people improve their emotional and physical wellbeing. I came across the charity by chance in August 2019, when I saw an advert for volunteers in the window of the Brighton office of the Terrence Higgins Trust (a charity I worked at several years ago).
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