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Directors |
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Jennifer Render -
Director |
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Jenny
has been the Director of GAVO since October 1988,
having previously worked
for West Glamorgan Community Service Council where she managed a small
team of Development Officers. When Jenny became Director, in 1988, GAVO had 8 members of staff,
and provided
support to Newport Resource Centre and Age Concern Gwent. Today GAVO has
150+ members of staff. Prior to working in Wales
Jenny worked for a
small Voluntary Organisation in Bradford - ATEC (which concentrated on
Economic and Technological Development) and for the Post Office. An
active trade unionist, Jenny went to Coleg Harlech where she got a
University of Wales Diploma in Industrial Relations and Politics, and
then to the University of Leeds, where she gained a BA (hons) in
Political Studies and a MA in Political Sociology.
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Caroline Milton - Assistant Director for Finance |
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Lynn Clubb - Assistant Director
for Blaenau Gwent |
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Lynn oversees the work of GAVO in
Blaenau Gwent. After 20 years in Youth Training
and Management Lynn joined the organisation in 1993
and has held a variety of roles since. She was Team
Leader for the Community Action Programme;
Development Officer for SPECTRUM Mental Health
Project, Newport; Development Officer for Torfaen;
Manager of the New Deal Programme, and Principal Officer
for Volunteering. Lynn currently holds corporate
responsibility for all staff training and
development. |
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Karen Vowles -
Assistant Director for Newport |
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Over 20
years experience of working within the Voluntary and
Community Sector, Karen began her working life in
accounting for a private firm, volunteered as a
support worker in a local Opportunity Group,
supporting children with disabilities and their
families and then moved to NCH Action for Children
where she worked as a Play Worker from 1988 until
1998
Karen joined GAVO in 1998 as Development Officer
based in Blaenau Gwent.
Promoted in July 2007 to Assistant Director
overseeing the work undertaken in the Newport City
area and has the corporate responsibilities for
Communities First, Children and Families, Health and
Wellbeing and BME.
Karen’s
main commitments involve ensuring an effective voice
for Third Sector, working in with local partners to
strengthen relationships and ensuring the engagement
of socially excluded groups within the decision
making process.
With extensive experience over many years of
supporting, promoting, raising resources to develop
the Third Sector, Karen’s main areas of interest are
community development, mental health, children and
families and social enterprise. |
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Mike Bridgman -
Assistant Director for Caerphilly |
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Mike
joined GAVO in September 1989 as a
Community Development Officer in Islwyn. He
was promoted
to Principal Officer in 1993 and made Assistant
Director in 1996 on Government re-organisation.
Mike manages the work of GAVO in the County Borough of
Caerphilly and has corporate responsibility for
Development, Community Transport, Marketing and
Publicity.
Mike’s main commitments involve ensuring an
effective voice for Community and Voluntary Groups,
working in partnership in line with the Caerphilly
County Borough COMPACT (working better with the Local
Authority and Partners to strengthen relationships
and ensuring the engagement of socially excluded
groups within the decision making process).
With extensive experience over many years of
supporting, promoting, raising resources to develop
the Voluntary Sector and raise the profile of GAVO. |
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Glenda Genner -
Assistant Director for Monmouthshire |
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Glenda
moved to manage the work of GAVO in Monmouthshire in
August 2008 where she leads a team of 16 working in
diverse projects, many unique to the county.
She
originally worked as a teacher for over 20 years
until she joined the voluntary sector as a Young
Carers Worker in 1995. After receiving extensive
help from GAVO officers she became a Community
Development officer for GAVO in the Rhymney Valley
in Caerphilly in 1997 and was later appointed to
Senior Development Officer.
Glenda
has extensive experience of community development
especially project development and planning,
fundraising, charity law, play, volunteering and
health and social care and she leads on child
protection for GAVO.
Glenda
has a wide range of interests and actively supports
participation in planning processes, partnership
working and project development by voluntary
organisations and statutory agencies. |
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