Winter 2021 - TCF Newsletter | www.tcf.org.uk 6 News and Comment from around our charity This autumn, we welcomed to TCF Jenny King, our new Events and Community Fundraiser, and Karolina Zwierzyk as our new Office Manager. Both are based in our London office. They join our dedicated and enthusiastic staff team and we are all looking forward to working with them in the months and years to come. We asked Jenny and Karolina to tell us a little about themselves. Staff focus Karolina Zwierzyk, Office Manager My role is to provide administrative support to the TCF staff team and volunteers as well as the coordination of the charity’s national office. I have been working as an office manager for a few years in both commercial and charity settings. In 2016 I travelled to Malaysia and became a volunteer in a facility for mentally disabled adults. It was a life changing experience. I have always felt I want to dedicate my time and skills to support vulnerable communities and that was a time that helped me to take a step towards that dream. Since then, I have volunteered in many settings, most recently by providing support to refugees and disadvantaged communities in Lebanon. For over a decade I have been a student of yoga, both on the mat and outside of it. I hope one day to use my yoga skills in my work with other people. In my spare time I enjoy furthering my knowledge about the history and politics of the Middle East. I am looking forward to working with my colleagues at TCF and will do my best to provide essential and valuable support to the work of the charity. Jenny King, Events & Community Fundraiser My route to TCF has gone via the world of advertising agencies where I planned and bought radio and press adverts for clients to marketing programmes for BBC radio 4 for over a decade. I founded an online fashion business with my husband, focusing on UK production and did everything from packing orders to trying on all the styles. I more recently worked in charity marketing both for the yoga and the hospice sector organizing events and sourcing income. I am really excited to move across into the world of fundraising and hope to be able to expand TCF’s routes to fundraising, extend the awareness of what we do and be able to further the support given by bereaved parents and siblings. I was bereaved as a child so have some understanding of the long route of grief and how it shows up in the most unlikely places. I can usually be found on the yoga mat for my mental health or at the theatre for sheer joy.
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