Danielle - enterpreneur, activist and community leader

Danielle is someone who knows what she wants. She is supported by Enable Cares through our industry-leading PA Model to empower her to live the life she chooses.

She is an entrepreneur, having set up her own business in 2015 to support companies and charities to better understand person-centred planning, and she is a guide leader in her local community in North Ayrshire. She is a creative person, reflective in her colourful character and outgoing personality.

Danielle has fought hard for her rights to access self-directed support and to choose the home she lives in, and the community she lives in. When it came to choosing the people to help her manage that support, she knew that Enable was the place for her.

Danielle volunteers her time as a leader and loves spending time with children helping them to make many firsts, exploring their creative side, getting out into the great outdoors and learning how to look after themselves, and others in the world we live in.

I know how important it is to be in control of your own life – I had to fight for a long time to make that a reality for myself. I turned that experience into a business, and I enjoy helping other people to access their rights to self-directed support.

When it came to my own support, I knew that Enable was going to be the place for me. I am in the driving seat – choosing my team of PAs and helping to advertise for them, what hours I want to be supported, what I want to be supported to do – and what I don’t! I am a busy person, I am!