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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.