Last Reviewed: February 2026.

Between 2016 and 2020, I volunteered for the Stroke Association in the UK. This involved visiting the ward at my local hospital, the same ward where I myself stayed, and chatting to other survivors.

In addition, I started volunteering in 2017 for Age UK, a national charity focussed on the elderly. I saw an ad on TV and thought, “I could do that”. I volunteered for this charity as a Telephone Befriender until I started a full-time job, in March 2023. The work involved weekly calls to lonely, elderly people, who had asked for the service. It was particularly important during COVID, when many of my clients were both vulnerable to COVID, and isolated.

Please note that the views expressed in this blog are strictly my own. I am not, nor was I ever, a spokesperson for any organisation. I don’t speak for anybody else.