We are delighted to welcome Ruth Thornton to the CSIE team! Ruth has joined us as a Research and Project Assistant for a month-long internship funded by the University of Bristol. Ruth, an undergraduate student studying French and German, searched for a local education charity when she heard of the University’s COVID-19 Small and Medium Enterprises scheme. This program aims to help organizations such as CSIE through these difficult times by paying the salary of a student intern for a month. Passionate as she is about promoting equality, Ruth chose to support CSIE and begins her internship today, Monday 8 June.

Ruth will be supporting CSIE’s ongoing efforts in fundraising, as well as contributing to work on current projects. We hope that, with her help, we will be able to set up a “matching” service, to pair up experienced educators with time on their hands, with children and young people needing additional support to learn from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ruth is a most welcome addition to the team and we extend our most heartfelt thanks to her, for choosing to support our work, and to the University of Bristol, for making this possible.