She Beasts has been a welcoming and necessary part of WAITS health and wellbeing workshops, for the past 2 years. Throughout the COVID-19 lockdown – Sadie delivered a 4-week exercise and nutrition course online for the service users of WAITS. The online course was manageable, and invigorating and helped to improve the health, psychological and emotional well-being of the service users during a difficult period of social isolation. Sadie worked with the women with ease and at their own pace, ensuring their safety and health needs were put first by explaining the physiological benefits and ensuring that the service users were able to make an informed choice about their health. Sadie has been great to work with, offering opportunities for staff to test the workshops so they can understand the wider benefits, with a demonstration of how rebounding works and ensuring that they understand how positively health and exercise can impact upon their domestic abuse survivor dichotomy journey. Sadie has ensured that the service users can access a comfortable but most importantly safe space, feel like part of a healthy family, and gain the knowledge for better holistic wellbeing outcomes. Sadie has extended her generosity to providing full leisurewear for our service users undertaking a WAITS Yoga course which is a part of their holistic and health journey. Sadie bought in bags of items and the women were appreciative that they could use these items for the course and beyond.

I would highly recommend and continue to refer women to Sadie and the team at She Beasts and look forward to our service users continuing to benefit from their services.

Charmaine Cole Volunteering and Influencing Coordinator WAITS