Like many, my career in fundraising started by accident. I was travelling and, as a deaf person, I thought I would visit the Deaf Club in Auckland. There happened to be a job vacancy and I needed work. I figured I had nothing to lose, so handed in my crumpled CV and got chatting to the deaf people who worked there. Before I knew it, I had begun my first fundraising job and had started to make a difference. I knew this was the career for me.

I have since worked at Action on Hearing Loss (known as RNID at the time), Shaw Trust, deafPLUS and now at SignHealth, the deaf health charity.