Having spent many years working with different local communities I am enjoying being part of the Friends of the Friarage and enthusiastically support their aim of providing the best possible healthcare to every patient. I am a former primary school headteacher, with a career prior to that including being employed overseas supporting greenfield agricultural developments in Somalia and Papua New Guinea. I recently took early retirement from headteaching and was thrilled to be appointed as Administrator to the Friends in September 2019. I love learning new things, travelling, canalling, theatre, walking, poetry and piano and, best of all, visiting our two children who live at different ends of the country.