Adele | Community Development Worker (East Oldham)
Email meWhat is my role:
Hello, I'm Adele Thomson, Community Development Worker for East Oldham, covering Saddleworth, Lees, St James and Waterhead.
My role is to support the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector in Oldham East to support social change and the development of their organisations as well as the services and activities they deliver. This can be in a number of ways including sourcing funding, access to relevant training and events, working with them to develop policies and procedures or just talking through an idea for a project or service.
What most excites me about this role:
The work we do for Action Together reaches the very heart of communities in Oldham, whether that’s taking and idea and supporting individuals to bring it to fruition, supporting an established organisation to develop a project idea or campaigning to make changes for the sector at a strategic level. To have the opportunity to be a part of those opportunities on a daily basis is not only exciting but shows the passion and commitment from the people of Oldham in ensuring our communities are better places to be.
I also love working with a wide range of people who amaze me daily with their enthusiasm and motivation for making a difference.
What drew me to work at Action Together:
My role with the Voluntary Sector Childrens Hub brought me to Voluntary Action Oldham (now Action Together) over 12 years ago. I was co-located with the team as an addition to their infrastructure support services and later became employed in a very similar role.
Action Together have very strong values when it comes to working with the VCFSE sectors in Oldham. Tameside and Rochdale and everyone shares the same passion and drive to see the sector develop and thrive.
My hopes for Oldham are:
My hope is that VCFSE organisations in the borough continue to develop and thrive for many years to come and through collaborative working, we get to the real heart of some current and future challenges to provide solutions for those that really need it.