Service
Work given rather than sold. I have tried to record it at its real size, because service described vaguely tends to be service exaggerated. Both of these are ongoing, and the longer of the two has been running for four years.
September 2025 to present
Every Wednesday
Volunteer
I volunteer every Wednesday at local primary schools, and my group and I have focused on a state school for children with special educational needs. The work has taught me patience and resilience, because the children sometimes refuse to listen or to speak to me, and the session has to work anyway. It remains genuinely difficult, and I keep going because I want to be useful to people.
June 2022 to present
Ongoing, four years
Volunteer teacher
I teach English to Ukrainian refugees in my area who were displaced by the Russian invasion. Beyond the language, the work is helping people adapt to a country they did not choose and find their way into it socially. In the early period my family and I also donated gifts and everyday items. It has taken a great deal of time over four years, and it is the thing on this page I am most glad to have done.
Not service, but the other standing commitments on my week, and the ones that have lasted longest.