“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” Martin Luther King
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My name is Sharon and I’m 37 years old. I’m married to Daniel and we live in the country near Membury and Stockland in East Devon, about eight miles from Honiton and five miles from Axminster. Dan & I have two beautiful children – Natasha is eight and Alexander is four, they go to school and pre-school in the village of Upottery.
I’m originally from North Yorkshire/County Durham and grew up in the countryside as the eldest child in a large family. My husband Dan grew up in Honiton and Combe Raleigh and brought us back to live in Devon in 2008. We settled here immediately and all absolutely love the countryside and being close to a loving and supportive extended family.
Work and education has taken me to different parts of the UK including Liverpool where I worked as a veterinary nurse in my early twenties. I then went to University in Bristol studying Women’s Studies and met my husband Dan. I worked in Bristol libraries then in Further Education. Jobs have included library assistant, learning advisor and manager of the students’ union. I also volunteered at Bristol Women’s Aid and skydived for the NSPCC !
We lived in Bristol for five years before Dan and I moved to Sussex, living first in Hove then in the lovely little town of Seaford near Eastbourne. I enjoyed working at the local Further Education college as a student counsellor and manager of the students’ union until I had my daughter Natasha in 2002.
I then studied drama in Brighton and London and spent a few years acting, directing and producing before taking a break to have my son Alexander (Aleck). You might have by now gathered that I’m not the sort of person who sits still for very long – so I started my own small business selling wooden toys, when I was just a few months pregnant with Aleck.
Nearly five years on, our family business Tish Tash Toys is growing with 150 agents across the country selling our handpicked range of toys at toy parties and local events. We also run www.greatgreentoys.com and www.partyplantogether.co.uk and raise funds for Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity. I raised £2000 trekking up the highest mountain in Morocco in 2008 (with a fear of heights!)
I joined the Green Party in autumn 2009 and as usual jumped in with both feet setting up a new Green Party group in East Devon. I was then selected to stand as a candidate for East Devon in the 2010 General Election. We’re now working towards fielding as many Green candidates as possible for the 2011 local elections here in East Devon – read more here.
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