Stephanie Nimmo
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Stephanie Nimmo

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Stephanie Nimmo grew up in the Victorian seaside town of Penarth in South Wales. She attended the United World College of the Atlantic and subsequently gained a degree in Social Anthropology at Kent University. She moved to London in 1990 and has never left. These days she refers to herself as London Welsh. Marriage to her long term partner Andy followed together with a mortgage and children. Her successful international marketing career was cut short on the arrival of her fourth child, Daisy, who was born with a rare, life limiting genetic condition. Overnight Steph became a full time carer and entered a world of which she had no prior experience. She has written about the issues facing carers and people with disabilities in her multi-award nominated blog, Was this in the Plan?. She has also written for The Guardian, Marie Claire, Mumsnet, The Pool, The Independent and The Huffington Post as well as being featured on Loose Women, BBC Breakfast, R4 Today, Victoria Derbyshire and BBC Ouch, the BBC’s disability channel. She has spoken on the subject of resilience to BT’s Equality network and has given several speeches on behalf of the Children’s palliative care charity, Together for Short Lives as well as writing guest features for Carer’s UK and Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity. Her story is featured on Sheryl Sandberg's Option B website as an example of resilience. Steph received a National Carer’s Award from Carer’s UK in 2016. Andy, Steph’s husband and partner of 27 years died in December 2015 following a diagnosis of terminal cancer the year before. 13 months later her daughter Daisy also passed away, she had just turned 12. As well as continuing her work around disability, carers and palliative care, Steph also devotes much of her time to talking to people about death in order to break down the taboo around dying and open up conversations on the subject. As she says "It is after all the only guarantee in life so as soon as we get our heads around that we can get on with living". Steph lives in Wimbledon, South West London, with her three surviving children and their dog, Pluto. Steph personifies resilience. She is determined that despite everything that has happened in her life she will thrive and not just survive. Read her blog at www.wasthisintheplan.com
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