Laura’s Story

"After overcoming many hurdles during the past year, Laura has dealt extremely well with her nerves and anxiety surrounding her practical driving test, and we are pleased to say, she passed first time!"

ROAD Participant Laura, who has been working with her Health Trainer, Angie from PCP, on lots of aspects of her health and wellbeing for almost a year now: confidence, weight loss, anxiety. Through discussions at her regular one-to-one appointments, it was identified that having a driving licence would support Laura to find and gain an employment or volunteering opportunity, giving her the option of looking for opportunities further afield. Angie secured external funding via Social Prescribing for both a 10-hour lesson block and a theory test, which Laura impressively passed on her first attempt, which we reported on last year! Angie then went on to secure funding via ROAD’s Health and Wellbeing Specialist Fund to finance a further 15 hours of lessons, and also a practical test. After overcoming many hurdles during the past year, Laura has dealt extremely well with her nerves and anxiety surrounding her practical driving test, and we are pleased to say, she passed first time! Laura is now on the ROAD for real, and this has had a positive impact on her life, and that of her daughter. Well done Laura, from everyone at ROAD!