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I currently work for Step by Step as a Talent Coach supporting young people ages 11-18, providing preventative support, helping them explore aspirations and supporting them to achieve their talents, skills and hobbies (both new and current).
although i work for SBS i have a strong connection with them due to my past and the support they helped me with i feel this is my way of giving back and helping SBS provide the support and offer some extra activity's that i got the chance to do, it is an amazing way to help the Young people to Build up confidence and self awareness also just to have a break away from the challenges that they face everyday. so I have set myself a fundraising target of £3000 which will help SBS to host a residential and various activities/challenges for the young people who access our services.
A bit about me..! and the story so far 8 months in...
So after some not so nice news from my doctor and being quite scared by it I decided to change so over the course of December I looked at ways to motivate me. A few friends mentioned that they might do a sponsored diet and raise funds for charity and I really liked this idea so I jumped on the bandwagon. However, I knew just dieting and trying to raise cash wouldn’t motivate me enough, so I explored the idea of completing challenges to help boost my motivation by knowing if I didn’t lose weight or increase my fitness I wouldn’t be able to realistically complete the monthly challenges. When I pitched the idea to my partner and they said “what will you do if you didn’t met the challenge for the month?” and that’s where I came up with the idea of forfeits. So, running has played a hard part in my journey as I’ve never liked running, so it’s taken me a lot of time to build up my running levels (I’m still trying to build them up!) but I’ve started to really enjoy it. The whole journey has had moments of toughness where at one stage, I felt really depressed as food has always been my go-to stress and happiness thing but I pulled though and cracked on I have lost just nearly 3 stone since Jan and my health has greatly improved. Still a way to go though!
although i work for SBS i have a strong connection with them due to my past and the support they helped me with i feel this is my way of giving back and helping SBS provide the support and offer some extra activity's that i got the chance to do, it is an amazing way to help the Young people to Build up confidence and self awareness also just to have a break away from the challenges that they face everyday. so I have set myself a fundraising target of £3000 which will help SBS to host a residential and various activities/challenges for the young people who access our services.
A bit about me..! and the story so far 8 months in...
So after some not so nice news from my doctor and being quite scared by it I decided to change so over the course of December I looked at ways to motivate me. A few friends mentioned that they might do a sponsored diet and raise funds for charity and I really liked this idea so I jumped on the bandwagon. However, I knew just dieting and trying to raise cash wouldn’t motivate me enough, so I explored the idea of completing challenges to help boost my motivation by knowing if I didn’t lose weight or increase my fitness I wouldn’t be able to realistically complete the monthly challenges. When I pitched the idea to my partner and they said “what will you do if you didn’t met the challenge for the month?” and that’s where I came up with the idea of forfeits. So, running has played a hard part in my journey as I’ve never liked running, so it’s taken me a lot of time to build up my running levels (I’m still trying to build them up!) but I’ve started to really enjoy it. The whole journey has had moments of toughness where at one stage, I felt really depressed as food has always been my go-to stress and happiness thing but I pulled though and cracked on I have lost just nearly 3 stone since Jan and my health has greatly improved. Still a way to go though!