Ryan holding an award

Ryan

Department: Volunteers
Ryan became a participant in 2020 when lockdown forced all of his regular daily activities to stop.  Ryan attended the pilot online sessions with his friends from the Eagles Boccia Club and with a month he was attending sessions with…
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Karen

Karen

Department: Volunteers
Karen’s enthusiasm to establish appropriate activities for children with SEND who are home educated has resulted in a variety of sessions each week.  Her varied personal experience has made her an invaluable sounding board, who checks and challenges in a…
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Maria

Maria

Department: Trustees
Maria is an experienced risk manager, predominately in the financial services industry, with knowledge of corporate risk and charity governance, and has been a trustee of the HDSF board since 2017. Maria is a Business Management Graduate from Middlesex Business…
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Sarah

Sarah

Department: Trustees
Sarah has been a trustee since October 2017. Whilst her career has spanned 20 years in Local Authority Housing, she joined the board of trustees to become the parent voice. Sarah has 2 daughters who both have physical disabilities, the…
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Sue

Sue

Department: Volunteers
Sue is our amazing volunteer fundraiser Sue has worked tirelessly to identify and write grant applications for the past 3 years.  She listens to our mad ideas and formulates them into funding applications that have been incredibly successful. Without Sue…
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DJ / Bingo Stoney- HDSF staff

Stoney

Department: Staff
Stoney is a Lead Instructor for HDSF who began life as a serial volunteer who will do anything for anyone.  We initially convinced him to join our staff team to support our sessions for people with dementia and their families.…
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John - HDSF instructor

John

Department: Staff
John is an instructor with HDSF who has decades of experience working in Herts County Council Day Services.  When retirement from HCC was mentioned, some gentle encouragement to join the HDSF team may have been applied! John’s knowledge of Day…
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Abbie

Abbie

Department: Volunteers
Abbie is a volunteer with HDSF Abbie started out as a participant on our adapted cycling sessions at Stanborough Park, and quickly tried out many more activities. Abbie very quickly showed her desire to want to do more than just…
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Charlie - HDSF Lead Instructor

Charlie

Department: Staff
Charlie is our Senior Instructor for HDSF – with ridiculously high energy levels and enthusiasm. All of our participants and parents love Charlie’s smiles, especially our junior adventure sessions where you’ll find him climbing mountains, swimming across oceans and much,…
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Alice

Alice

Department: Volunteers
Alice is a volunteer for Herts Disability Sports Foundation. Alice is with the team one day a week supporting sessions at day services.  Alice has made positive relationships with many of the participants and supports the delivery of dance, boccia…
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