Volunteer to lend a hand and 'change futures'

A Hartlepool couple are urging people to get on board with a volunteering scheme that supports young people in care.

- Madeleine Raine

Mairi and Graham McBain are independent visitors with Changing Futures North East, a charity that helps young people feel safer, more secure and have the foundations to do well.

The couple, whose children have all left home, offer their time and a listening ear to young people in the care system in the North East.

Graham, a community pastor at the Headland Baptist Church, said: “Our three children are in their 20s now - they left home a few years ago - and this really has filled a gap actually.

"It’s really fun.”