Page 18 - Spring 2022 Community Newsletter ENG
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Meet the Team
             Meet the Team                                                                                                              Meet the Team








                                           Sky Roberts                                                                                                                   Dan Snaith





                                                                                                                                Describe your job role at Keep Wales Tidy?
      Describe your job role at Keep Wales Tidy?                                                                                My role is project officer for Carmarthenshire. Of late it has been working on installing
      I am a Policy and Research Officer in the Policy Team, which means I spend most of my                                     the Local Places for Nature packages in south and west Wales. My role also includes

      days researching waste issues, liaising with other staff on local trials and doing LEAMS                                  delivery of the Caru Cymru project in Carmarthenshire.
      surveying and reporting.

                                                                                                                                What’s the coolest thing you’re working on right now?
      What’s the coolest thing you’re working on right now?                                                                     The coolest thing I’m working on is putting my carpentry and groundwork skills to

      The coolest thing I’m working on right now is research into tourism litter and ways of                                    good use building the items that form part of the Local Places for Nature projects in
      tackling it. The most exciting part is writing up the research and finding not long after                                 the region. My background prior to Keep Wales Tidy was a groundworker, so this is

      that Welsh Government, Local Authorities, other organisations or community groups                                         almost nostalgic!
      are already taking steps to implement it, it feels like progress.

                                                                                                                                Best thing about being part of the Keep Wales Tidy Team?
      Best thing about being part of the Keep Wales Tidy Team?                                                                  Best thing about being part of the Keep Wales Tidy team is the banter on site with

      The best thing is how easy it is to get on with everyone. The ‘new job nerves’ soon                                       colleagues. Also, tin our region we are more like mates than colleagues and often
      disappeared after seeing what a friendly bunch they all are!                                                              (pre-covid) we’d organise our own social gatherings outside of work time. It’s also fun


                                                                                                                                to meet up with the wider Keep Wakes Tidy team once in a as it gives me a chance to
      Who would you most like to swap places with for the day?
      Dan Biggar captaining the Wales team against France in this year’s 6 Nations.                                             meet a very varied and interesting group of people from a whole range of backgrounds.
      We lost the game, but have you ever seen someone smile so much?                                                           Who would you most like to swap places with for the day?


                                                                                                                                I’d like to swap places with Wayne Pivac for the day, well, because we all think we can
      What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid?
      Either a marine biologist or a vet. But in the end, I found everything so interesting                                     do better than him, so would give me a good chance to prove that. Or realise that I

      that when people asked what I wanted to do, I would give the                                                              really can’t!
      broad answer of ‘save the planet’.                                                                                        What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid?



      Last book you read?                                                                                                       I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was a kid but hitting 6ft at
      Cell by Stephen King.                                                                                                     about 15 years old put a stop to that!

                                                                                                                                Last book you read?
      Tell us an interesting fact about yourself?
      It’s a good job that I work from home because at the end of                                                               Last book was Lost by James Patterson. Wouldn’t recommend it.
      my first day working for Keep Wales Tidy, I realised I’d been                                                             Tell us an interesting fact about yourself?

      wearing my trousers back to front all day!                                                                                I used to have a DJ residency in a popular nightclub in Swansea.
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