UA-171643620-1 Helen Underwood Working Hours Interview - Working Hours

Episode 34

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26th Jan 2026

To Work Is To Live

Recorded on 19/09/2025

Helen Underwood is a Former NHS Physio, First Aid Expert, and entrepreneurial-mum on a mission!

With over 20 years in healthcare, including time in Children’s ICU and other NHS departments, I’ve devoted my career to helping people. Now, as founder of Underwood Training, Helen is creating a ripple effect of empowerment by making First Aid knowledge more accessible in businesses, schools, and communities.

Helen believes First Aid should be general knowledge. She delivers simple, practical, context specific First Aid Training and First Aid for Mental Health Training for individuals, groups and teams.

Underwood Training sessions are engaging and designed to build confidence, not just compliance.

Helen believes that anyone, regardless of background or profession can learn life-saving skills and that they should have the opportunity to do so, such that I’ve created a virtual first aid course for parents and carers. Her aim is to break down barriers and myths around first aid to help more people in our communities feel ready to act in an emergency.

To get in touch with Helen check out:

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/underwoodtraining

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/helenunderwood

Instagram: www.instagram.com/underwoodtraining1staid

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Underwood.Training1stAid

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@underwoodtraining5923

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The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
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Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
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