Joanne Doherty currently works in the Health Service and is a community volunteer in her spare time. She enjoys tennis, swimming, yoga, running, cinema and creative writing and plans to take part in the Great North Run in September 09. She is positive, fun loving, energetic and full of life. She wants to spend her time making the world she lives in a better place for all and hopes there will be some real developments and positive steps made in the next year through Challenge Europe.