I work in the scouting support team and cover South Wales (Mid Glamorgan, Cardiff and Vale, Gwent). The Scouting Support Team (SSOs) works alongside volunteers across Wales to help you deliver safe, high-quality Scouting. We offer clear, practical support with programme, volunteer recruitment and retention, team development and understanding your role. We also deliver inductions for key line managers to ensure everyone feels confident from the start. Alongside this, we build partnerships that strengthen Scouting and help make it more welcoming and accessible. Working closely with the various Wales teams from program to youth, we provide joined-up guidance when you need it. If you’d like support, please get in touch.

I look after the day-to-day finance and operations that help Scouting run smoothly across Wales. My work includes managing our finances, reconciling grant income and expenditure and supporting the administration of programmes such as DofE. I help make sure bookings and payments are processed so our brilliant young people and leaders can take part in events across the UK and abroad and continue making their voices heard and have great fun! I also handle the orders for badges, awards and achievements, and it’s a real highlight to see the steady stream of accomplishments celebrated every day. My role is all about keeping things organised behind the scenes so volunteers and young people can focus on what Scouting does best.

I administer the Board of Trustees and all sub committees, ensuring effective governance through timely agendas, accurate minutes and prompt circulation of meeting information. I coordinate committee papers, track actions across groups, and maintain comprehensive records. My role includes monitoring the ScoutsCymru Grants Fund, maintaining the annual governance calendar, organising the AGM, supporting the Trustees and occasionally providing cover for online banking tasks and post. I routinely review the Constitution and Schedules, aim to stay as up to date with guidance (particularly Chairty Commission) as possible, and support any governance projects, when needed. In addition to this, I’m also working alongside one of our volunteers to review our internal digital provision. Overall, I aim to work collaboratively across the ScoutsCymru staff team to help volunteers and young people feel informed, confident, and connected, in addition to sharing best practice and striving to raise the standard of governance for everyone involved. I’m also a Cub leader!

I'm in the scouting support team and I cover West Wales (Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Glamorgan West). The Scouting Support Team (SSOs) works alongside volunteers across Wales to help you deliver safe, high-quality Scouting. We offer clear, practical support with programme, volunteer recruitment and retention, team development and understanding your role. We also deliver inductions for key line managers to ensure everyone feels confident from the start. Alongside this, we build partnerships that strengthen Scouting and help make it more welcoming and accessible. Working closely with the various Wales teams from program to youth, we provide joined-up guidance when you need it. If you’d like support, please get in touch. I'm also training for my first ever triathlon in 2026!

Ann Jones was born and brought up in Rhyl on the North Wales coast, where she has lived all her life.

She worked for nearly 30 years in fire control rooms in north Wales and Merseyside until her election to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999. Before being elected to the Assembly, Ann served as a Rhyl Town Councillor and was the town’s Mayor in 1996/7. She was also a Denbighshire County Councillor. Ann Jones was a Member of the National Assembly for Wales between May 1999 and April 2021.

While championing her local community, Ann has worked tirelessly with the Welsh Government to attract major investment to the area with real success. She was also Deputy Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales during the Fifth Assembly.