Two Decades of Serving Vulnerable Populations

I have been involved in working with venerable people for over twenty years and have worked within many different settings. As part of my work, I have worked with people within sheltered accommodation to more recently, working with vulnerable families living with poverty and deprivation. I have mentored young people who were at risk of being excluded from and often had chaotic home lives, some with Special Educational Needs. Due to the nature of my work, I had needed to have a high level of interpersonal skills and to be approachable to people from all areas and backgrounds of society be they parents, governors to social services or the police.

Within one of my most recent positions I worked in one of the most deprived areas of Bristol.

For example, I lead a mid-week ‘Open House’ that was featured in ‘Youthwork Magazine’ for its inter-generational work. The project provided a relaxed place fr the local community to meet, play games, learn new skills and short each other. Moreover, I weekly take students in an elderly community meal that was aimed to continue to build relationships between generations. Amongst other projects, I am was involved in facilitating a gardening project, breakfast club, community cafe, and a boys reading group. I have developed, planned and implementation several children and young people holiday clubs that have been attended by over 50 children with teams of volunteers. Previously, I have facilitated and implemented numerous youth camps including international trips to Nice, France and Dublin, led an area-wide ‘Battle of the Bands’ that was attended by over 200 local community member. This project worked closely with the local police, securing a small grant, as well as other local community groups. I developed a project that encouraged rural based young woman to become more involved in politics this included a weekend trip to London to interview protesters outside the houses of parliament and secured a grant of £3000. The project lead to an evenings presentation to the local community and suporters. This also included feedback of evaluation of the project.

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