Councillor Sharon Robinson

On leaving the Armed Forces I studied and qualified as a Youth and Community worker while working for the National Association of Boys Clubs.  I took over my own Youth and Community centre that was in a very poor part of North Tyneside. This being the case, the whole community got involved in helping me bring the centre back to a stage where it was suitable for all the activities we had to offer, which was everything from a Baby Clinic to Pensioners Lunches with its key focus as a Youth Centre on evenings and weekends.

Leaving my post in 1989 to emigrate to Australia, I found my qualifications worthless and found myself in the corporate world working as a Customer Relations Manager for Thorn EMI. I joined Essex County Newspapers and stayed with them for quite a few years until I left to train as a nurse.

I stayed in nursing for quite a while but did not like the fact I was doing more paperwork than caring and that politics had set into an environment which it should never have. So, from there I became a full-time professional singer performing in pubs, clubs, holiday parks, golf clubs, the list is endless. During my latter years as a singer, we became volunteers for the RBL as case workers, learning all there was to know about doing reports and applications for assistance. So here we are today a very happy wife, Mam and Nanna and Co-Founder of NEVSG.