#ItStartsWithYou campaign launches in Torbay
#ItStartsWithYou campaign launches in Torbay as NHS hits 70 Marking the 70th birthday of the National Health Service, Healthwatch Torbay...
Apart from five years studying in Oxford I’ve lived most of my life in London where for many years I was Head of English in a prestigious girls’ school, but since taking early retirement and heading West to be nearer to my two daughters - settling in Torbay with my wife, Anna, in 2011 - I’ve worked in the voluntary sector.
I took on the role of Service Provider, for example, promoting the Red Cross Torbay Navigators Project, while now I’m a Trustee and part of the Media Team for our local Healthwatch. I’m a governor at Torquay Academy, too, giving me the chance to stay up to date with what’s happening in the world of education.
Other interests, aside from friends and family, include art and art history, reading - from contemporary fiction and poetry to Elizabethan/Jacobean literature - history, politics, cooking, walking, and music, in particular Bob Dylan, the blues, and early Elvis.
I love writing, too, with one novel published so far – Elvis in Wonderland – and another, Who’s There?, that still needs plenty of work!
#ItStartsWithYou campaign launches in Torbay as NHS hits 70 Marking the 70th birthday of the National Health Service, Healthwatch Torbay...
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