Turning Tides
Amy Thorley is an experienced professional in community development and management, currently serving as Community Development Manager at Turning Tides since May 2022, where the role also encompasses project management. Concurrently, Amy holds the position of Director at Billy & Beyond since August 2021. Previously, Amy was Volunteer Manager at Guild Care for a brief period in 2022 and served as Community Development Officer and Coordinator of Volunteers at Turning Tides from November 2017 to February 2022. Additionally, Amy was Director at We Are Food Pioneers, a social enterprise focused on food-based experiences and events, from May 2020 to February 2022. Earlier experience includes various administrative roles at South Downs Leisure from April 2014 to November 2017 and as Marketing and New Business Manager at Working Links from September 2000 to April 2008. Education includes attendance at the University of Exeter and Queen Anne's School.
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Turning Tides
We are a community led homelessness organisation that puts clients and local people at the heart of our mission to end homelessness. To do this we will be: • Ambitious - homelessness is not an inevitability • A voice for homeless men and women • A place of safety, respect and trust • Kind, generous and warm hearted • Engaging, motivating and inspiring • Inclusive and welcoming • Valuing faith, spirituality and our Christian roots • Led by our clients’ and communities’ expertise and experience Turning Tides started as a group of Christians known as Worthing Churches Homeless Projects in 1992 to help local people out of sleeping rough. The churches gifted buildings and volunteers. We soon began to make a difference! We learned, however, that it was not enough just to find a roof. Often there are complex needs such as mental ill health and the challenges of addiction. Others joined us from the community (of all faiths or no faith) and we became more professional as a strong local homelessness charity. However, local people continue to sleep rough and there is little help for homeless men and women in the surrounding areas of Worthing. Turning Tides remains determined to end homelessness wherever we work - a reality that can only be achieved through finding shared purpose with our clients, other services and the wider community.