Victoria

Victoria joined Cranfield Trust as a volunteer in 2018 and is one of our many volunteers based in Wales.  

Victoria’s key areas of experience include:

• Resilience and mindset coaching
• Executive Performance Coaching & Leadership Mentoring
•  Change Management 
• Strategic Business Management

 Since joining, Victoria has been involved in Cranfield Trust’s Peer to Peer programme, which provides CEOs or directors of small charities with a safe space to share their issues and experiences, with the view of encouraging them to explore different perspectives, learn from their challenges and take action.

Victoria has facilitated Peer to Peer groups, by creating a positive arena to guide the group members’ through their confidential challenges.  She’s been skilled at ensuring psychological safety, therefore, encouraging participation from everyone involved.  Apart from supporting participants to contribute questions which stretch group members, Victoria has also shared various models, tools, and techniques with the groups to enhance learning and resilience.  As a result, she has supported participants to work through some challenges they didn’t think they were capable of.

Q&A with Victoria:

What inspired you to volunteer for Cranfield Trust? 

Cranfield Trust is a worthy and professional body for whom I am proud to work.  As I have an abundance of expertise in business and supporting people, I saw being a volunteer for Cranfield Trust as an opportunity to use skills that will benefit charities that need support. There’s a wide array of expertise and professionalism from all volunteers, and I am honoured to work alongside them.

What do you enjoy the most about volunteering? 

I enjoy meeting people from a variety of sectors that I wouldn’t ordinarily come across; it’s inspiring to work with so many charities doing good work, much of it down to the people working for the charities who want to make a difference.  Knowing that I’ve made a positive contribution to support them in some way, is important to me.  

What would you say are the main benefits of volunteering?

The ability to use skills to help others, meet other like-minded people, raise profile. 

How would you describe your volunteer experience with Cranfield Trust? 

Uplifting and inspiring: there is so much to do that helps others, and there is so much to learn. Cranfield Trust is always grateful for volunteer contributions.

above: feedback received from a charity client that attended Peer to Peer sessions facilitated by Victoria.