Our team in detail...
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Peter Kramer
Artisan Baking Tutor
Peter is an Artisan baker and founding member of Forest Bakehouse Ltd. He is sharing his passion for real bread, demonstrating baking and cooking techniques at Chandos. He believes that baking and cooking from scratch with wholesome ingredients can be both very satisfying and creative, and does not need to be difficult. He also has a background in organic farming, is a qualified holistic massage therapist and has been practising Ki-Aikido for the last 20 years.
Bekki is qualified in Learning Development Support Services and Information, Advice and Guidance having worked with various community groups and agencies in supporting roles for 10 years. Bekki now works for City of Bristol College offering 1:1 and group sessions in community venues to discuss education and training options available to individuals including accessing funding for course fee’s, travel and childcare, study and learning support and progression options.
Bekki Lowe
Education & Training Advisor
Charlotte runs art sessions at Chandos- including illustrated journal keeping and felt making. She is a tutor for the WEA and teaches occasional part time classes at Bristol School of Art. She spends a lot of time drawing, or staring at things with a view to drawing them, makes books to draw in, etches and makes felt. Charlotte is a great believer in the importance of creativity and aims to share the joy and satisfaction of doing creative things with anyone who is interested. To this end she co-runs the Big Park Draw (a community drawing project in Victoria Park, Bedminster) and is in the process of helping set up an urban sketching group.
Charlotte Murray
Illustration & Felt Making Tutor
As a qualified naturopath, nutritionist and EFT practitioner, Elspeth works holistically to uncover the root causes of illness, taking in all aspects of the clients’ physical and mental/emotional wellbeing, past and present. As well as weekly and monthly one-to-one consultations with Chandos House residents, she also does group workshops on all the different factors involved in good physical and mental health, from how to maximise your daily nutritional intake, to how to sleep well, improve oxygenation and support the body’s natural repair processes.
Elseph Waters
Nutritionist & Naturopath
BA (Hons) Dip NT ND CNM mBANT mAAMET
Jason is our Careers Advisor and he has worked with PTC andLPW/Connexions West. His professional experience in the Recruitment and Careers Industry is ideal in providing valuable advice. He helps our clients with ideas on what they could do with their futures by signposting them to appropriate volunteering opportunities, career options, and training and apprenticeship options. He also assists with CVs, applications, interview techniques and contacts that he has established during his long experience in recruitment, business and volunteering work.
Jason John
Careers Advisor
Pam is a Dance movement Psychotherapist. She leads Creative arts therapy sessions – using movement, voice, sound, art and play – to go beyond words – in a person-centred model. Pam has worked as a creative arts therapist for 12+ years with people on the journey from alcohol/substance misuse.
Pam Fisher
Dance Movement Psychotherapist
The late Joyce Dickinson set the standard of care at Chandos House that remains at the forefront of all its activities and ethos to this day. Joyce is the vanguard of all that Chandos House has achieved and its determined quest for excellence within the field of recovery.
Joyce Dickinson
Founder, 1985
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