I am the founder of this special Foundation which I set up to ensure that the spirit of my only darling daughter, taken far too young at the age of 23-years in a road traffic accident in India, lives on.   She was 10 days into a trip of a lifetime after qualifying as an accountant.  My Han’s spirit had to be kept alive and I thought long and hard about how best to do this.

It was when I was in the depths of my sorrow with nowhere to turn, that I found a tool for my pain – on my mat in my yoga and meditation classes, neither of which I had tried before. Then, in a bubble moment I realised that this is what I would create – a warm caring non-judgemental environment (all those qualities found in my daughter).  We would seek to enable others to find a tool for their grief and so became the Hannah Whitley Foundation.

So what else do I do in my spare time? I am a full time solicitor and mother to my rock , Theo , Hannah’s 20-year-old brother.