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.
Assessing grant applications made to BBC Children in Need. Over 600 projects assessed.
Assessing applications for funding from statutory bodies and charitable trusts. Managing community based grants in conjunction with the grant holder.
Maintain Council accounts, minute meetings, advise Council on policy issues.
Training youth workers in international youth work on a part time consultancy basis throughout the UK, Italy and Germany.
Responsible for the delivery of adult education, the youth service and public use of provision on comprehensive school sites including two leisure centres.
Responsible for the management of adult education, the youth service and leisure centres on school sites.
40% teaching commitment, 60% responsible for youth work on the school sites including two and six rural youth clubs.
Headteacher of an all age school of 330 pupils
Class teacher
60% teaching, 40% Youth Work, responsible for one school based youth club and eight rural clubs.
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.