Claire Morgan 13/06/2025 Member StoriesNews

I’m down in London again visiting my family.  We come down on the train from Bangor. It’s a long journey.  I come with mum – I don’t feel confident to travel independently because I’m not too good at crossing the busy roads.

I’ve been doing some exercise this morning using resistance bands. I exercise 5 – 6 days per week. It’s important to me to keep fit and I used to play a lot of football years ago.

I’ll be at AdFest this year on the exhibition stall with Dilwyn, one of the lecturers. We will be chit chatting to people and encouraging people to become learning disability nurses.

I contacted the nursing scheme at Bangor because I’d been in hospital and I’d had good and bad experiences. I wanted to share those experiences to make things better for others. I’ve been talking to nursing students for a few years now. I keep in touch with some of them and am able to follow their nursing careers when they’ve left university.

University work is quiet now and will pick up again at the start of the new academic year.

I’ve been at Anheddau for life skills again recently. We’ve been looking at budgeting  – we get worksheets to work through and we have to answer questions about budgeting. My mum helps me with my finances.

I work at the British Heart Foundation shop once a week – generally in the stock room. I’d like to work on the tills but I find working out the change is quite difficult, and I had to press the buzzer for help a few times. I prefer to be in the stock room.

I take my work and volunteering seriously and it’s important to me.

Being part of a self-advocacy group and of All Wales People First has changed my life for the better.  Being a self-advocate has given me confidence. It’s been good to meet people who are like me and who face similar challenges.