Meet our team

As Chief Executive Officer I am responsible for all the youth work projects and programmes taking place at BGC Wales, overseeing youth work staff and ensuring that the voice of our dedicated volunteers is heard at various meetings within the sector in Wales.

My role covers managing the finance of all accounts and administrative work for the organisation, providing business support to all staff, managing and organising the Head Quarter to provide a standard working environment and adequate resources for staff and our work. Managing the operation of the IT System to ensure that we are working in a safer IT environment to Safeguard our data; overseeing the Communication Tasks to ensure information is correct and maintain our visibility to the outside world.

I am the International Youth Work Project Manager for BGC Wales. I look after our internationally linked and funded projects. BGC has a long history of participating and delivering a variety of international opportunities and projects. I look forward to contributing and continuing this work.

I am passionate about helping young people, and can’t wait to be up in Blaenau Gwent meeting and working with the young people there. It is such a great opportunity for me to be doing something I love as a job, and I can’t wait to get stuck in!

Working for BGC Wales has allowed me to provide support an opportunities to a wide variety of young people both locally and internationally. The future of youth work is always changing and developing and i'm very proud to be part of an orgnisation that embraces that change in order to advocate for the rights and issues that young people face.

Gayle Harris who has joined us after working within the sector for 25 years. Gayle brings a wealth of experience of Youth Work management and fundraising and we are looking forward to Gayle supporting the progression of the organisation. Croeso Gayle! Gayle’s role is to bring in funding to the organisation and provide information, training, one to one support and funding opportunities based on the needs of the member clubs.

Hi I am Catherine Lewis I have been doing youth work for longer than I can remember and still feel glad to say I enjoy being around young people and supporting them. My role here is the wellbeing officer and I want to help everyone, to feel good about themselves. Looking after your mental health is so important because it affects everything. I run projects and sessions in the Bridgend area and I look forward to meeting you in the future.