Volunteered to help with stories today in Stonehouse more reading than telling. The idea was to encourage families with books/reading especially after the last 15/16 months we actually had more volunteers than families but it was the first event and from little acorns!

It was good to see some old friends that I worked with when we ran the charity managing Sure Start Children’s Centres in the area. If our Prime Minister is really serious about leveling up and not just empty soundbites he might want to to something about the way his government has allowed Sure Start to  decline over the last ten years. I still think Sure Start is the best initiative any government has implemented in my life time-it was making a difference!

Performing in Lydney Library on Wednesday morning and Kingshill House on Friday.