GAVCA

Mary Boucher

Development Worker

01242 227737| maryb@gavca.org.uk

I have worked in the voluntary and community sector for more than 25 years, in a wide range of roles from advice work; managing hostels for young homeless people; managing volunteers; generic and specialist mental health advocacy; and as a member and Chair of several management committees.  The breadth of the work I have been involved with reflects my passion for the rights of all people to have their voice heard, respected and, where appropriate, acted on.  And the work I do with GAVCA enables me to support organisations to have the necessary tools and resources to run effectively and for their benefit of their respective constituency of interest.  

I have worked and lived in many parts of England, and have lived in Gloucestershire for the past 6 years, and I feel very lucky to live in a county with some of the best gardening conditions of anywhere.  Not that I am a great gardener, I dabble, but I do love to visit other people’s and eye up the size of their cabbages.

Caroline Cook

Caroline Cook has worked in the voluntary sector for many years in various roles. As the senior staff member in two organisations and now as an independent consultant she works with issues of change on a frequent basis – personal change and organisational change. Caroline also works as part of Phoenix Associates.

Angela Gilbert

Angela Gilbert has worked in the voluntary and community sector (VCS) for 19 years in a variety of roles including developing activity programmes for children and young people, managing community organisations, developing policy frameworks and supporting groups with organisational development.

Her current role is Services Manager at GAVCA in Cheltenham, offering support for local groups and enabling District representation of the VCS.

"The enthusiasm and background knowledge of the trainer is impressive". (Participant who attended The Effective Trustee, 13/12/11).

Jane Jarman

Development Worker

01452 509708 |  janej@gavca.org.uk 

Although I am the newest recruit to GAVCA, I have worked in or with the voluntary and community sector since the early 1990s. I enjoyed a similar VCS support and development role as the Forest of Dean Rural Community Fieldworker for seven years before managing a major £2m scheme for young people in the Forest for five years. Through this scheme we set up the FoD Youth Workers Network, which I continue to chair, as well as its subgroup the successful Forest Youth Forum.

Before moving to my last job managing the grant giving programmes for a Gloucestershire based charity, I returned briefly to a role similar to my early Probation Officer career, when I spent three years working with children and young people at risk of offending – and their families.

I have mostly worked in the Forest of Dean, where I live, so covering Gloucester City will be a fresh challenge although I think many of you here will recognise me from my grant giving days. Outside of work, I am a governor at Gloucester College, am passionate about gardening, do increasing amounts of biking and always yearn for the sea.

Dave Jones

Dave Jones is currently Deputy Chief Executive Officer at County Community Projects (CCP). Dave is responsible for education, housing, working age adult’s tenancy support, adult IAG, adult education, parenting, adult advocacy and adult Drop In services. He is also the Designated Safeguarding Manager, auditing and implementing adult and children’s safeguarding systems and delivering safeguarding training both internally and externally of CCP. CCP have been praised by the Local Authority and OFSTED on its robust safeguarding arrangements.

"The trainer knew his subject inside out" (Participant who attended 'Safeguarding Children and Young People').

PPD Training Solutions

Dave Middlemiss is the managing director of PPD Training Ltd. Based in Stroud, PPD was set up in 2002 offering First Aid, Health & Safety and Training the Trainer courses throughout the South West. Dave is the Chairman of his local branch of the Federation of Small Businesses and is a Gloucestershire Business Ambassador promoting and supporting local businesses. An experienced trainer and training developer, Dave designs and delivers bespoke training packages covering all aspects of health & safety including NVQ level 4 in Occupational health & safety, manual handling, risk assessment and HSE first aid, paediatric first aid, bespoke first aid and automated external defibrillation training.

Progress Through People is a small team of dedicated professionals, offering staff training, recruitment and HR support. The team can provide:

• Management training
• Human Resource support
• Staff recruitment
• Dispute resolution
• Full support for Employment Tribunals

For further information, visit the Progress Through People website.

Jem Sweet

Jem currently works for Socunt Enterprises and has been interested and involved in mental health and wellbeing for the majority of his working life. He completed his Mental Health First Aid training in 2009 and also delivers mental health awareness and stress management training. Jem is a Tutor for the Workers' Educational Association and has a background in exercise and sports psychology (MSc.).

Terry Lockwood

Since setting out as a business telecommunications consultant in 1997 Terry has used his 30 years of telecoms experience to assist many third sector clients manage their systems and service efficiently, minimise expensing, simplifying billings, merging organisations and solving problems. Having held main board positions since the mid-1980’s Terry has managed national and international businesses and has unique insights into the technologies and commercial issues which are essential to telecom efficiency. As a final part of the course Terry will present a case study to demonstrate how Paravail identified, sourced and implemented savings of 30% on a National Charity telecom account.