In the summer of 2007, I had the great and unforgettable good fortune to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship for three weeks' travel in Canada and the United States and later in the year to attend the World Congress of Conductive Education in Goteborg, Sweden. The purpose of my Fellowship was to look at innovation in the education of children with cerebral palsy.

Now retired, I remain passionate about conductive education as a system of lifelong learning, especially now with adults, of those with motor dysfunction, typically cerebral palsy. My wife and I are very proud of our adult daughter, an active citizen living independently in the community with two housemates, supported by 24-hour care. She attends a daily adult conductive education group run by the charity that I founded, Paces Sheffield, and which is thriving.

I am still active as a trustee of a local community charity along with two other trustees, one of whom is also a Churchill Fellow, continuing the work inspired by our Fellowships.