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Meet Pat Cripps – National Officer for Wales
Based at our office and Helpline centre at Nantgarw just outside Cardiff, I travel throughout Wales, promoting the work of Elizabeth Finn Care and making sure people in financial need know how we can help them.
Working with groups and organisations across Wales
I am always pleased to attend meetings, conferences and exhibitions to explain our role and ways in which we can help. I also deliver training for intermediaries on making the best use of the Turn2us services for advice workers and am always looking for new partnerships to maximise the financial inclusion opportunities from Turn2us for hard to reach groups.
Visiting grant applicants
I occasionally carry out visits to applicants and prepare reports for our Grants team, which gives me a greater understanding of the issues facing the people applying to us.
Click here to find out how to apply for financial help
Volunteer recruitment and training
Our Volunteer Case Consultant role development is a particularly exciting project to recruit volunteers who will support new applicants who need that little bit more help, for example, with filling in forms, or by checking their benefits entitlement on Turn2us.
Visit our volunteer pages to find out more about this rewarding role and how you can get involved
Press and media
I handle press and media opportunities for EFC in Wales, and although I am not bi-lingual, we do have a Welsh speaker available for interviews and make every effort to make sure material is available in the Welsh language.
Click here to visit our online press office
Income Generation
I look out for income generation ideas to help continue the work of the charity. This ranges from community fundraising opportunities to raise some money for local support; to larger scale applications to local Trusts or Funders with particular areas of interest that we may be able to help with.
Please visit our fundraising ideas page for more about how to help us
- Partnerships with Care and Repair Cymru and Home-Start Wales to deliver training to over 60 staff and 90 volunteers in using the Turn2us intermediary services
- Organising and delivering Turn2us intermediary training to another 14 organisations in mid and west Wales, reaching 33 intermediaries
- Attending Energy Action Forums in north and south Wales, to highlight strategic importance of lobbying for more action on affordable warmth
- Attending Financial Inclusion forums
- Meeting and working with Voluntary Action organisations across Wales on both Volunteer recruitment, 3rd sector consultations and financial inclusion services
- Working with our Volunteer Co-ordinator to ensure our Investing in Volunteers accreditation is maintained and ready for review in 2012.
If you would like to know any more about the work we do in Wales please do contact me directly in any of the following ways:
Tel: 01443 827 631 or 01676 541 654
Email: pat.cripps@elizabethfinn.org.uk
Post:
Elizabeth Finn Care, Unit 9,
Cefn Coed Park,
Nantgarw,
Cardiff, CF15 7QQ