I’m a cook and I’d been looking for somewhere to volunteer when I read AA Gill’s article about the shelter. It was a couple of years ago and I was unemployed at the time but I found volunteering put a bit of structure back in my life. We have great fun in the kitchen cooking anything from fish fingers to a proper curry with all the trimmings. It’s a bit like a family, the same team meets up every week and we all pull together to make something really great for our guests.