Sue lives in Somerset. She qualified as a Youth & Community Worker in 1985 and has primarily worked with young people and young adults in a range of roles since then (young carers, young homeless people, young people at risk of exclusion).

From 2019 until retirement in 2026, she was Social Prescribing Coordinator with a Primary Care Network (PCN) of 5 GP surgeries in South Somerset. This work involved very close partnership working with many organisations to set up a range of local community groups and activities to help support local people’s health and wellbeing.

Sue lives with two persistent pain conditions – Osteoarthritis and Burning Mouth Syndrome, which have impacted her own physical and emotional health and wellbeing. She discovered the Live Well With Pain programme in July 2021, which completely transformed the way she understands, manages and lives with her pain, and she is passionate about supporting people with pain conditions to find ways of living a happy and fulfilled life, despite that pain. She developed a PCN-wide programme of Ten Footsteps groups and five in-person LWWP cafes, an online evening pain group and a group for young adults, as well as wellbeing activities in community venues. Since retiring has started a pain management peer support café in her home town.