In March 2021, we launched the Sheffield Digital mentoring scheme, to help our Individual Members develop their careers and achieve their professional goals. Six months on and we are delighted to report that 14 matches have been made between mentors and mentees. We’ve seen a really interesting range of ‘needs’ from our mentees, from those

Can you give us an overview of your career to date, and how you got to the role you are now in? I was recently introduced to the term “squiggly career” by Sophie, Sheffield Digital’s Community Manager, which is definitely the ideal description of how I made my way to my current role! I studied

Why mentoring? After consulting with our Individual Members about what they wanted from their membership, we could see there was demand to create a scheme where people could develop themselves and work towards a career goal. And what better way to do that than tapping into the wealth of knowledge and experience that exists among

Can you tell us a bit about what you do now and the career you’ve had? A few years ago I decided to downsize and become financially independent. I sold my house in Hampshire and moved back to my home town of Sheffield, mortgage free! I had been widowed a few years earlier, the last