Compaid couple wed
Friday, 24 April 2009
A couple who met at COMPAID Trust’s Activities Centre were married at St Paul’s Church, Rusthall on Tuesday 21 April.
Ian King and Gillian Shaw first met in January last year when Ian began volunteering at the Activities Centre, assisting disabled clients with computer skills training and development. Gillian had been coming to the Centre since 2002, following a brain injury which had left her with short term memory.
After Ian was assigned to support Gillian in learning computer skills to assist her memory, the pair discovered that they’d lived close together, been to schools in the same town, and studied the same subject at the same college, during their teenage years.
Their friendship quickly developed, and on Boxing Day 2008 the couple got engaged.
Among the guests at the wedding were several COMPAID friends, including Pam Nelson, manager of the Activities Centre, and Sarah Bullett, another volunteer at the Centre and Trustee of the charity.