Mary Stirling

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19th January 2011 03:52 p.m.

Japleen Kaur

Mary Stirling has had a varied career including teaching, sports development, recruitment and project management.  She is currently a governor with Oxleas and also serves teas and coffees at Bromley Little Theatre. She has also done some voluntary work for both Horizon House, doing admin and reception work, and the British Heart Foundation.

Mary has undertaken a number of courses at Stepping Stones including assertiveness training, managing relationships, art, drama and computer studies.  She is currently studying French at Morley College.

Her V2W placement is with myself where she works as a V2W project assistant giving general help with the volunteer placements for Oxleas.  She began this placement in October 2010.  Her work involves general admin duties including designing flyers for a Volunteers Get-Together, she also takes minutes at lots of the social inclusion meetings.  She has also started devising role descriptions and is looking forward to meeting potential volunteer supervisors to promote the scheme together with meeting potential applicants and helping them choose their placements.

She has been made to feel very welcome by me and feels as though she is making some kind of impact.  She would thoroughly recommend undertaking a placement as she believes that it keeps her skills up to date, and gets to know lots of new people and feels a good part of the social inclusion team. 

What are you waiting for?!!

Filed under: Volunteer to Work scheme

Japleen Kaur

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Japleen is the social inclusion project manager for the Trust; she joined in October 2009. She was born in New Delhi, India and visits home at least once a year, when she is in the UK she misses her dogs terribly. Once upon a time she was practising as a junior ophthalmologist in New Delhi, but decided it was not for her, she did not want to spend the rest of her life looking into other people’s eyes! She was more interested in what goes on in between the ears; she came to UK to do her Masters from the University in Nottingham and also studied community mental health and research.

She worked for a small voluntary organisation in Nottingham after completing her degree, a massive pay cut self inflicted but a huge amount of satisfaction ensued, got involved in a couple of research projects, contributed by her academic background.

She then moved to London to be with her husband and she enjoys going to the movies, reading and writing short stories and poems. Being left handed she thinks that they are a superior species and artistically inclined and basically the best people in the world!

japleen.kaur@oxleas.nhs.uk

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