Ashanty

What do you enjoy most about your role?
The variety of things I get to do in it and the opportunity to learn about and share the work of organisations that, in many cases, can be life-changing for the people they work with.

How would you like to make a difference?
To help get the message out there that if you, or someone you know, needs help, advice or information when you are ready to talk there are organisations that can help.

What are your top 3 values?
1. Learning – It’s so important to me to keep learning, investigating, asking questions and being curious.
2. Kindness – Thinking about how I do what I do if there is a kind way to do it always do it that way. There’s no need for nastiness.
3. Stability – To strive to achieve it and provide it.

Joined the Helplines Partnership team: 9 January 2018

Posts by Ashanty

GamCare and the National Gambling HelpLine

By Ashanty

2nd Apr 2018

As gambling behaviour is increasingly a subject of public health and policy interest we talked to Catherine Sweet, Head of Marketing and Communications, at our member GamCare about the work they do to prevent gambling becoming a problem and supporting people if it does. Understanding the risks “For many people… Read More

Tags: anxiety, debt, Emotional Distress, Gambling, Helpline, helplines, mental health, Money and Debt, support

Helpline tackles human trafficking

By Ashanty

26th Mar 2018

Invisible Traffick - speak up to end human trafficking

Figures from the National Crime Agency show that in the three months from April to June 2017, 1090 victims potential victims of human trafficking were reported in England, 52 in Wales, 47 in Scotland and 11 in Northern Ireland. The 1,200 potential victims were from 83 different nationalities with Albania,… Read More

Tags: abuse, Helpline, helplines, human rights, modern day slavery, support, trafficking

The power of listening

By Ashanty

16th Mar 2018

Sophie Andrews, Chair of Helplines Partnership, at TEDMed

In a powerful and very personal TED Talk, our Chair and the CEO of The Silver Line, Sophie Andrews shares how a helpline became her lifeline. In the short video, Sophie talks about how as a young girl, being sexually abused by her father and his friends, she made a… Read More

Tags: child abuse, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Children and Young People, Emotional Distress, Helpline, helplines, listening ear, self harm, sophie andrews, support, The Silver Line

Sky Badger tells us what it means to be a digital charity

By Ashanty

1st Mar 2018

Mother and young children looking at a tablet computer

I spoke to Naomi from Sky Badger, one of our members, to find out more about how they run their service entirely over the web and their band of virtual volunteers. Helplines rock. It’s quite that simple. For Sky Badger, helplines are a vital part of making sure we can find… Read More

Tags: child disability, Children and Young People, Family and Parents, Helpline, parents

The value of volunteers

By Ashanty

15th Feb 2018

It’s difficult to underestimate the value and worth of volunteers to the success and sustainability of the helpline sector. We surveyed our members and of those who responded found that 17% had helpline services supported entirely by volunteers and 30% of member helplines were supported by a mixture of volunteers… Read More

Tags: Helpline, HR, volunteer

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