Chris Cook Email & Phone Number

Crawley, GB

Dormans Youth Arts Centre, Dormans, Crawley RH11 8HZ

With over 40 years of voluntary and paid youth work / youth club experience I am able to support communities, management committees, housing associations and others in engaging young people as well as considering the risks and safeguarding required to support the development of safe youth activities.

Crawley

Having supported the development of this charity from its inception and creation I continued as an Advisor to Directors in an unpaid role. In September 2014 I joined the Board of Directors as Secretary and have helped to establish this charity as a major provider of universal youth services in Crawley. With my various transferable skills I manage the.

Gossops Green, Crawley

In 2012 WSCC released me to take up a position with Crawley Community Youth Service (CCYS) for one day a week as an Advisor to the Directors. I established this charity as a not for profit limited by guarantee company after taking advice from Crawley Community and Voluntary Service in May 2011. As Advisor to Directors I helped prepare policies, procedures.

Worthing

Meet In Place, Fishersgate, Hove

• Sussex Clubs for Young People Ltd (SCYP) aims to support development of a vibrant voluntary and community youth sector, which involves, empowers and meets the needs of young people in Sussex.We are here to support.
• Visiting and supporting SCYP Clubs across Sussex including Brighton and Hove.
• Identifying the needs of the clubs and enhancing programmes for young people.
• Identifying and informing affiliated clubs of youth work training and activities available to them.
• Developing the work and sustainability of SCYPContact me by email at chris.cook@sussexcyp.org.uk

Thomas Bennett Youth Wing

YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICEI am a qualified Youth Worker managing staff, buildings, lead worker for Young Carers and NEET forums in Crawley, Horsham and Mid-Sussex, the direct support of Care Leavers as well as targeted work for young people with needs around self-esteem, anger management and bullying. My manager considers that my organizational skills are.

Centenary House, Worthing

As the Voice and Engagement Coordinator for WSCC working with members of the UK Youth Parliament, County Youth Cabinet and Youth Councils throughout West Sussex to engage with services and work with MPs and Councillors as part of Positive for Youth strategies. This included preparing young people for scrutiny meetings and shadowing members. I liaised with.

Ifield Youth Wing

As the Youth Worker in Charge at Ifield Youth Wing. I managed a staff team of 7 sessional workers, developed a significant volunteer team and recruited a number of young people as volunteer junior leaders and peer mentors. I applied for and received over £30K of funds in this period for a range of projects including one that supported young people with.

Crawley

Discovery New School was one of the first tranche of free schools and was one of the first to be closed.I was originally selected as a Community Governor because of my links to a variety of groups across Crawley. Sitting on the Finance Committee I helped to scrutinise financial matters. In April 2013 I agreed (naively) to stand as Chair of Governors.

Crawley

The Rector of Ifield convinced me that my future was in a role that had a greater impact in youth and community work. Licensed by the Bishop of Horsham in this role I developed youth and children’s work within Ifield Parish, visited schools, took assemblies and classes, after school and lunchtime clubs and was a member of two governing bodies for local.

Woking

I contracted for a few months for this company writing corporate tax software in a specialised computer language. I was recruited to take on a full-time role as Project Manager for a team developing Corporate Tax Software. The team were drawn from a number of countries and we created a system utilising formulae provided by accountants to cope with the.

West Sussex

I returned to contracting to boost my income. During this period I worked for different companies writing retail, tax and insurance software. Primarily using object-orientated code in scripting languages and developing as part of large teams.

Steyning

I was recruited by Ashdown Publishing who were one of my clients to manage their IT systems. I managed a small web development team including designers and editors. I provided web and email services to a range of clients. During this period I recorded, edited and produced videos for a range of conferences including our very own Teddy Bear Oscars for one.

Haywards Heath

This was my first stint at being self-employed following a redundancy. My major projects included: writing retail software for an office furniture supplier and invoicing in Crawley; developing a timesheet/invoicing/payroll system for an employment agency providing HGV drivers to clients which ultimately developed into a system paying over 500 staff per.

Croydon

I led a small team that commissioned and installed systems nationally for this accounting firm as well as providing front-line support to over 250 end users. In this role I was able to develop skills in line and performance management of employees. In one major project I planned and facilitated the installation of 60+ PCs and network servers at the Glasgow.

Reigate

After developing insurance quotation software for mortgages and pensions in Cobol and using Lotus spreadsheets for IBM PCs I transferred internally to a Business Support Team. I supported the use of PCs from installation to front-line support. As part of the Business Analysis Team I helped to review the processes and staffing for a range of departments and.

Crawley

Starting as a Computer Operator on early mainframes (including ICL 2960's) I was internally promoted and into development as Programmer and Business Analyst. I was instrumental in the early introduction of PCs to the service including preparing standards and guidance for their use. I supported the training of new programmers and the development of.

Foundation Degree, Youth & Community

Studied Youth & Community

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