Dolsie started volunteering when she was 10 and hasn’t stopped since. She started her ophthalmology with six months on the children’s wards. After qualifying she worked remand and childcare, being offered a house and fourteen children when she left to get married!
Once married she became a childminder then a foster parent. Dolsie continued Volunteering at the local nursery and setting up a nursery in the local tie factory. Moving back to Surrey, she volunteered, sitting on the Governors Committee at her children’s school. She was chair of the local Guides whilst mentoring a girl with Downs. She became Akala when the local scout pack were in danger of closing down.
She has been on the board of Governors at two local schools, until recently teaching recorder and helping with special needs one afternoon a week. She volunteered at the youth club until Surrey closed it. Three and a half years later she took on the lease and, until Covid, was open for the young people of Chertsey. She has plans to reopen again shortly. She also opens the youth club as a Community Centre with various activities.
Apart from her magnificent work in the UK, Dolsie has volunteered in the Czech Republic, Indonesia and Russia.