Gareth Couperthwaite
Been Vice-Chairman – YMCA
Bolton
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WORK EXPERIENCE

Been Vice-Chairman
YMCA Bolton – 2015-01 – Present

of Johnson Fold Community Radio since its inception as a standalone organisation. Recently taken on the role as Safeguarding officer for the group.

• Responsible with the committee for the running of the organisation and co-ordinating, training and coordinating volunteers. Procuring the funds to allow for a FM broadcast every year.
• Taking part in monthly broadcasts online, as well as providing roadshow style broadcasts at events across Bolton.

Volunteer Administrative Assistance in Sharples Wrestling and for England Wrestling
Team Manager
YMCA Bolton – 2012-09 – Present

• Volunteer Administrative Assistance in Sharples Wrestling and for England Wrestling Team Manager.
• Offering assistance to the club in whatever their administrative needs are, from typing to redesigning powers and marketing. Assisting with their paperwork and data management.
• Maintaining an up to date list of attendances for their schools and evening sessions.
• Volunteering at their Wrestling events and competitions in various roles.
• Helping to look for funds for the development of Wrestling in Bolton and Greater Manchester
• Perform a similar and simultaneous role for The England Wrestling Team Manager, offering support to the TM in his role up to The Commonwealth Games.

Community Youth Worker/Youth Team Administrator
YMCA Bolton – Bolton – 2009-01 – Present
Youth team administrator’s role is to ensuring the monitoring to our funders is complete and process in time. This includes inputting all attendances and other monitoring information into an electronic database.

• The role also has an amount of data manipulation, and regular figures are produced to support YMCA Bolton’s work and to show a need for the work to continue or to demonstrate why it’s needed.
• Role also includes being AQA administrator and Vinspired administrator, to enable young people to gain meaningful accreditation and qualifications through their hard work and volunteering.
• I’m responsible for giving appropriate information on a plethora of issues young people face, including employment, training, education, relationships, legal, and sexual health. Supporting young people through these issues, to help them gain sustainable employment, educational and/or training places.
• In keeping with YMCA England’s motto of “Belong, Contribute and Thrive”, I work to give young people opportunities to represent YMCA Bolton at events around the country and overseas, including residentials and overnight trips, with our partners and likeminded organisations to have their voices heard and to take part in learning opportunities. I have been responsible for groups of young people travelling to France and Bulgaria in the past year, engaging in European funded programmes.
• Working in youth groups, with young people (5-19 years old), to enable them to take part in meaningful activities. These clubs are run in partnership with other community groups, including a specialist school, a housing organisation and a Methodist church.
• Worked alongside Bolton Council to engage young people from the local skate park community to designing and building a new skate park on the existing skate park site. This required arranging public meeting, meeting designers and ensures everyone was happy throughout the process. Following on from the work, moved on to engagement work with the skate park users, to continue the work, engage the park users in the annual summer competition, as well as other positive activities.

EDUCATION

B.Sc in Chemistry
University of Leeds
2004-09 – 2008-07

A levels in History
Wigan & Leigh College – Wigan
2002-09 – 2004-07

G.C.S.Es in English and Maths
The Deane School – Bolton
1997-09 – 2002-07