The Future's Bright for a Helper Who Turned His Life Around ; This Week Is National Volunteers' Week, Which Aims to Promote the Benefits of Giving Up Free Time to Help Others. In the First of a Series of Articles, Health Correspondent Kate Liptrot Talks to Sporting Futures Volunteer Martyn Smith.

Derby Evening Telegraph › June 02, 2010

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AT just 15, Martyn Smith sat alone in a police station late at night waiting to be taken into a children's home rather than go back to his family.

But instead of feeling rejected or scared, he was relieved to be away from a home where he felt so unloved.

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The Future's Bright for a Helper Who Turned His Life Around ; This Week Is National Volunteers' Week, Which Aims to Promote the Benefits of Giving Up Free Time to Help Others. In the First of a Series of Articles, Health Correspondent Kate Liptrot Talks to Sporting Futures Volunteer Martyn Smith.

He had started joy-riding and stealing and then decided to run away, at which point, he claims, his family gave up on him.

He was taken into care and continued on a downward spiral.

By the age of , he had been locked up three times.

Now aged 31, he has come a very long way.

He is the proud father of Maiga...

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