Abby Thomson

I have a background in Support Work with adults with learning disabilities with 7 years experience as a Support Worker. I set up my own business 12 years ago, which I still run but I have also successfully perform various voluntary roles in my local community alongside it for the last 2 years. I volunteer with the Kidlington Good Neighbour Scheme as a befriender visiting people with reduced mobility and who often live on their own. I also deliver library books to people wth mobility issues with the Home Library Service. I also volunteer with the Towpath Taskforce, maintaining our pathways and folliage along it in Kidlington at Stratfield Brake. I also volunteer at the Kidlington Sue Ryder shop hanging clothes and putting out stock onto the shop floor.

Certificated in First Aid and have done Food Hygiene, Safeguarding, Risk Assessment training etc. many times over the years so I am familiar with these concepts and their application in the workplace.

Have volunteered in South Africa in an HIV/ AIDS hospice for 1 month after my Undergraduate degree as well as volunteering in Bangalore, India in a deaf school for 3 months in my twenties.

I'm a keen walker, am part of the Ramblers and have walked various long-distance walking paths such as the West Highland Way, The Oxfordshire Way, The Cotswold Way, The Isle of Wight and Jersey coast paths to name a few. I'm a keen swimmer and swim every weekday morning. I like to cook and try new recipes.