Volunteering & Charity Work

Home-Start UK Volunteer & Pranayama Coach
2019-current

Home-Start is an international nonprofit organisation of trained volunteers and expert support helping families with young children. Families struggling with depression, isolation, physical health problems, bereavement and many other issues receive the support of a volunteer who will spend around 2 hours a week in a family’s home supporting them in the ways they need. I am assigned to a family and work with them on a weekly basis in their home.

Additionally, I lead a bi-monthly 15-minute breath workshop via Zoom with families in the Home-Start community. In this workshop I discuss basic principles of breathing and introduce simple techniques to implement into a daily routine. We then put the techniques to practice and the families are invited, along with their children, to give it a go. This is done on a volunteer basis and specifically designed for families in the Home-Start Programme.

Volunteers for the Home-Start charity are professionally trained to work with people struggling with mental health and domestic abuse. Training and other topics include: child protection regulations, boundaries and personal safety and confidentiality/data protection.