I am an experienced professional in the fields of sport for good, criminal justice, higher education and community development.
My work experience includes the following:
CURRENT ROLES
- I am the Director of Street Football Wales, an all-Wales charity using football as way to engage with socially excluded adults. We run free to access weekly programmes, inclusion-based tournaments and participate in the annual Homeless World Cup.
- I am a founder and Co-Director of Inside Out Support Wales / Cefnogaeth Tu Fewn Tu Fas Cymru, a new social enterprise for Wales, helping to reduce reoffending. My role with the organisation is as a Director, Education Mentor and Research Lead.
PREVIOUS FREELANCE WORK
- EGIN programme as a Facilitator supporting community groups to develop programmes tackling climate change.
- Social Entreprise Academy Facilitor delivering numerous social enterprise programmes for Cwmpas.
- Wales representative with European partners with EPALE.
- Designed & delivered and online and inperson commercial training courses under the brand Licence to Learn, on criminal justice subjects and supporting clients for local authorities across South Wales.
- Criminal Justice trainer for Youth Cymru.
- Online career support through the creation and delivery of a student-centred personal development Stand Out programme for the NPTC Group of Colleges.
- ‘Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research’ published by Palgrave Macmillan (2020), features a co-authored chapter with Professor Rosie Meek of Royal Holloway University titled ‘More Than Just a Game: The Impact of a Prison Football Team on Physical and Social Well-Being in a Welsh Prison‘.
- Blog posts published and post-release support for the Longford Trust.
- Blog posts on sport as a tool of engagement published by Alliance of Sport in Criminal Justice.
PREVIOUS ROLES
- South East Wales Reaching Wider partnership as an Adult Learning Officer, facilitating outreach adult learning opportunities in RCT.
- School of Hard Knocks as an Adult Facilitator for their South Wales programmes. Using sport, and especially rugby, as a tool of engagement and to help individuals to make meaningful changes in their lives.
- Media Academy Cymru as a Knife Crime Project Workshop Facilitator in schools across Cardiff and Bridgend at KS3 and KS4.
- The Meee Programme, as both a freelance Trainer and Development Worker in South Wales. I also designed and delivered two employability programmes in HMP Berwyn.
- Volunteer for Prisoners’ Education Trust’s Welsh Prisons Project, as a Research & Development volunteer, strengthening emerging pathways and pipelines, for prisoners in Wales to connect with educational institutions in their communities.
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