After stepping down as headteacher at a village primary school, Mike was on the lookout for ways of giving back to the community. "I was teaching at North Petherton Primary School, where I became deputy head. "I was then headteacher at Bishop’s Hull Primary School until August last year, when I left education." Then in December, he was appointed to his current post of director at Taunton Foodbank, based on Belvedere Trading Estate. Shoppers at a number of local supermarkets generously leave food donations in baskets, which are collected twice weekly.