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Meet the Team - Jodie Griffiths
Meet the Team - Jodie Griffiths Meet the Team - Debbie Cox

Two new project officers have recently joined our team. This is your chance

to find out more about Jodie in Powys and Debbie in Blaenau Gwent! Describe your job role at Keep Wales Tidy?
I am the Project Officer for Blaenau Gwent. I work on Caru Cymru and Local Places

Describe your job role at Keep Wales Tidy? for Nature projects. The role is very varied and is keeping me busy, which is what I
I am the Project Officer for Powys and new to the role so still figuring it out really! I’d enjoy. No two days are the same and I get to meet passionate people who care deeply

say it’s about empowering and supporting communities to look after where they live. about the environment and their communities. What’s the coolest thing I’m working
on right now? Meeting lots of people and seeing the great work which is happening
What’s the coolest thing you’re working on right now? locally by volunteers and getting involved.

Two Local Places for Nature projects have just been approved in Powys, so I’m excited
to get started on those Best thing about being part of the Keep Wales Tidy Team?
Everyone is very friendly and supportive to help each other.

Best thing about being part of the Keep Wales Tidy Team?
Everyone has been so welcoming and helpful since I started, so I feel immediately part
of the team Who would you most like to swap places with for the day?

It would be great to go back in time and be an arts and crafts garden designer, where
Who would you most like to swap places with for the day? new industrial wealth and an explosion of newly discovered plants to design with is
Geoff Goldblum! He just looks like he has so much fun, although I’d rather hang out difficult to imagine today.

with him for the day than swap places.

What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid? What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid?
A ‘Celebrity Chef’ – me and a friend used to make some pretty weird ‘Ready Steady Cook’ I enjoyed listening to lots of music on records and drawing, so I wanted to be an album

concoctions when we were kids and have cooking competitions. I still love cooking and cover designer. When the music got transferred to CD, it didn’t have the same appeal.
ran a café for a while, so my passion for food stayed alive and I’d like to think my recipes

have improved.
Last book you read?
Last book you read? I haven’t read novel books for a while as I don’t get a lot of time to sit down and read,
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl – to my kids. so it’s mainly reference books or online reading.

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman – to myself.

Tell us an interesting fact about yourself? Tell us an interesting fact about yourself?

I spent a whole week barefoot a few summers ago when I forgot I was one of the founder members of Tiger Bay Ramblers, an
to take any shoes on holiday. I often go barefoot in the 18-40’s walking group. I organised their first ever European

summer but wasn’t quite intending to have no shoes all holiday walking trip to Sierra Nevada in Spain. They then organised
- I got some funny looks in the pub and public toilets barefoot annual walking trips following the success of this.
are not nice!

Jodie.Griffiths@keepwalestidy.cymru Debbie.Cox@keepwalestidy.cymru