Stories of volunteers supporting the health service since 1949
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After a difficult childhood in East London, Pauline has been working and then volunteering with disabled children, and disabled adults all of her life, as a social worker but also in multiple charities, before ending up in BOPH, where she has been fo...
Josephine (Jo) Geary, Business Opportunities for the Physically Handicapped (BOPH)Founder of BOPH with Joan Lythgoe, MBE, Jo was first involved with people with disabilities when her daughter was born paralysed from the waist down and, when pushed by Joan, she joined her in starting a charity that would be a free workshop for phys...
Karen Bowers, Business Opportunities for the Physically Handicapped (BOPH)After being involved with special needs people all her life, Karen ended up being noticed by Joan and working full-time at BOPH. Working there doesn’t feel like work for her but more like coming to her extended family, where she is able to create s...
Brogan was motivated to volunteer after accompanying her Mum who worked with people with special needs, Brogan started volunteering at only 16 as a one-to-one support for one client who went on to attend BOPH and which led to her working at BOPH fu...