Summary
Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Timeline
Generic

Roy Skelton

Penarth,Vale of Glamorgan

Summary

Experienced professional with focus on securing and managing funding opportunities. Deliver tangible results through strategic planning and stakeholder engagement. Enhance financial sustainability by leveraging skills in grant writing, budget management, and compliance.

Overview

64
64
years of professional experience

Work history

Grant Assessor

BBC, Children in Need
Working from home, freelance
04.2004 - Current

Assessing grant applications made to BBC Children in Need. Over 600 projects assessed.

Funding Officer

BIG Lottery Fund(now National Lottery)
Cardiff, Cardiff
04.2008 - 07.2015

Assessing applications for funding from statutory bodies and charitable trusts. Managing community based grants in conjunction with the grant holder.

Clerk to the Council

Michaelston le Pit Community Coucil
Michaelston le Pit, Vale of Glamorgan
04.2006 - 04.2008

Maintain Council accounts, minute meetings, advise Council on policy issues.

Freelance Training Consultant

Mainly British Council
Throughout Europe
01.1998 - 12.2006

Training youth workers in international youth work on a part time consultancy basis throughout the UK, Italy and Germany.

Community Education Officer

Newport County Council, formerly Gwent County Coun
Newport, Newport, South Wales
04.1982 - 12.1997

Responsible for the delivery of adult education, the youth service and public use of provision on comprehensive school sites including two leisure centres.

Community Education Officer

Gwent County Council
Abergavenny and Monmouth, Monmouthshire
11.1973 - 04.1982

Responsible for the management of adult education, the youth service and leisure centres on school sites.

Youth Tutor

Askern High School
Askern, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire
01.1972 - 11.1973

40% teaching commitment, 60% responsible for youth work on the school sites including two and six rural youth clubs.

Head Teacher

Government of the Bahamas
Cat Island, Bahamas
09.1969 - 08.1971

Headteacher of an all age school of 330 pupils

Assistant teacher

Government of the Bahamas
Arthur’s Town , Cat Island
09.1968 - 08.1969

Class teacher

Youth Tutor, Casterton Village College

Rutland County Council
Casterton, Rutland
09.1966 - 08.1968

60% teaching, 40% Youth Work, responsible for one school based youth club and eight rural clubs.

Other Relevant Information.

Various
UK
01.1962 - 08.2025

Chair of Connect Cymru, British Council Wales National Committee for international youth development, for 5 years, committee member for 13. (1995-2008).

Chair of the FAN Charity, addressing loneliness, for 3 years, committee member for 8. (2015-2023).

Member and Chair of many committee, both work related and voluntarily in the wider community, covering sport, including Chair of the Sports Committee in college for two years, and charitable groups.

Education

Teaching Certificate, Diploma in Youth Work. - Teaching/Youth Work

Edge Hill Teacher Training College
Ormskirk
07.1966

Skills

  • Outreach initiatives
  • Written English proficiency
  • Ethical consideration
  • Social impact understanding
  • Grants oversight
  • Non-Profit organisation knowledge
  • Funding research
  • Evidence based decision maker
  • Charitable sector awareness
  • Lifetime spent in community education, health or charity related environments
  • Strong team worker
  • Robust knowledge of safeguarding for both children and vulnerable adults
  • Policy advocacy
  • Experienced in the Strategic Development and Governance of both statutory and third sector bodies

Timeline

Funding Officer

BIG Lottery Fund(now National Lottery)
04.2008 - 07.2015

Clerk to the Council

Michaelston le Pit Community Coucil
04.2006 - 04.2008

Grant Assessor

BBC, Children in Need
04.2004 - Current

Freelance Training Consultant

Mainly British Council
01.1998 - 12.2006

Community Education Officer

Newport County Council, formerly Gwent County Coun
04.1982 - 12.1997

Community Education Officer

Gwent County Council
11.1973 - 04.1982

Youth Tutor

Askern High School
01.1972 - 11.1973

Teaching Certificate, Diploma in Youth Work. - Teaching/Youth Work

Edge Hill Teacher Training College

Head Teacher

Government of the Bahamas
09.1969 - 08.1971

Assistant teacher

Government of the Bahamas
09.1968 - 08.1969

Youth Tutor, Casterton Village College

Rutland County Council
09.1966 - 08.1968

Other Relevant Information.

Various
01.1962 - 08.2025
Roy Skelton