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OK, so I'm here. Just doing a quick interview with Nicky, who's a volunteer.
Outreach.
Um, So, Nikki, can you tell me more about your volunteer experience? Outreach?
Yeah. Um, volunteering with outreach has
given me so much confidence. Um, got me interacting with, um,
the general public again.
Um, services was coming into the cafe,
and
I was able to interact with them very well.
Due to well, I've had past experience of working
with people with certain certain needs. Um,
so
OK, fantastic. And, um,
what kind of challenges or successes did you experience as a volunteer?
I was out of work for six years. Um, so
coming to
outreach, it's given me the confidence to get back out into a working environment.
Um, speak, um, working with
the staff from outreach as well plus service users.
It gave me that sense of, um, a sense of purpose to getting up in the morning,
Um, and gave me the confidence to
get back out to work.
Brilliant.
Um,
and can you tell me more about your journey
from volunteer to becoming a paid staff member?
So I set with outreach in September last year,
and
by January, this year
I was asked to apply for a senior support work role.
I've currently got, um, a degree in health and social care, which is BS C honours.
And, um,
it was recognised by staff here that,
um I I had the qualities to work as a senior support worker.
Brilliant. Um, and why did you volunteer?
It was generally to get me out of the house, and I was stuck in a rut.
It was, um
get me out. Talking to people again
and
just building my own self esteem back up as well.
Brilliant. And finally, what have you got out of volunteering?
And the best thing is,
is working with the service users and getting to know all the staff here
and building good relationships up with them
and, um,
just feeling rewarded at the end of the day.
Brilliant. Thank you very much. Nikki.
Ok,
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