A day in the life of... Sarah Buckley Education and prevention team leader Glow domestic abuse charity (part of Honeycomb Group)
Employee since: June 2013 Location, location, location: Stoke-on-Trent
09:00 Team meeting Our Monday morning team meeting gives us the opportunity to discuss the children’s referrals that have come in over the weekend and any local updates. I allocate referrals to each of our specialist children’s workers to go out and meet the children and young people to create a support plan and bespoke intervention for them. It’s also the chance to have a cheeky brew, chat about our weekends and catch up on everyone’s TV watching! 11:00
Relationships Without Fear school programme Today we’re delivering a community awareness-raising workshop for 20 young girls from Stoke City Football Club. Our school-based sessions for children and young people empower them with the skills to recognise and understand healthy relationships and provide the tools to be able to find the support they need if they ever experience abusive or unhealthy relationships. It still shocks and disappoints me that we don’t put more emphasis on educating children in these areas.
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Locality partnership meeting In our joint session, we share ideas on various initiatives to engage young people in our communities, discuss projects we can collaborate on and exchange ideas. One of the most important aspects of these meetings is sharing information on the children and young people falling under the radar or not engaging with services/statutory agencies, and talking about any key trends happening in the local area and how we can collaboratively work together to ensure the right support is available.
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Sourcing donations and fundraising We have amazing support from our local business and communities who, in just the last few weeks, have donated meal vouchers, cinema tickets, toiletries, teddy bears and toys.
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Project development We spend some time this afternoon to prepare for a presentation we My perfect day are giving to our executive team. The presentation will, hopefully, drive our service forward with a clear and consistent strategy There’s nothing I like more than and ensure we continuously raise the expectations of what sitting at home, candles lit and a glass we can achieve. of wine watching RuPaul’s Drag Race! My job can be tough, but I’m very lucky to have Promotion an amazing, supportive circle of friends and a Today I’m being interviewed by our local radio station lovely family who understand my job. I can also to promote our RWF prevention programme. And then often be found escaping reality at the theatre there’s just enough time to film a quick TikTok video for watching a musical, or giving my best Adele our comms team to share on our hugely popular account. impressions on the karaoke followed by a Sunday roast and a good sleep ready Take a bow to start Monday morning all I’m well known as the office entertainer! On my way out of the over again. office I give everyone a rendition of the Strictly Come Dancing theme tune while performing some spectacular dance moves!
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