Hello! I’m Sophi, and I’m the service manager for Care with Heart. I’m also a registered nurse for people with learning disabilities. I qualified as a nurse in 2004, but I’ve known people with learning disabilities all my life and it’s been my passion to make the world a fairer and more enjoyable place for as long as I can remember. I started Care with Heart because I wanted to create a company I was proud to work for, and where the focus was truly on helping people with learning disabilities make real choices about their lives and then to live the life they had chosen. I feel truly blessed to share the lives of the wonderful people I meet at work – both people with learning disabilities and their families – and I’m never happier than when I’m out and about helping someone go ice skating, meet up with their friends, or challenge themselves in their own work. When I’m not at work, I like spending time with my husband Ian and my little menagerie of pets: Leila the dog, Neroli the cat, my 16 (ish!!) guinea pigs, and my herd of giant African land snails.

Hi, I’m Ellie and I started working for Care with Heart in June 2020, after eight years working in retail. I really enjoy working with young people with learning disabilities, helping them live fun and successful lives and supporting them to achieve their goals and overcome challenges in a positive and rewarding way. I love getting to know the young people and seeing them grow and change – recently I’ve been helping someone develop their communication skills, and it’s been amazing to see her spontaneously communicate using Makaton signs where before she found making choices and expressing her needs very stressful. I love hiking and bouldering and I’m also a morris dancer, as demonstrated by my picture which was taken at the 2018 Swanage Folk Festival.