Staff
Cathy Warlow
Manager & Company Secretary
Cathy joined Builth Wells Community Support in December 1995 as the manager and has guided the Charity through many changes and developments. Cathy is reponsible for the management of all our services and volunteer recruitment. Cathy has qualifications in Management and Accountancy.
Dan Lawrence
Assistant manager
Dan joined Builth Wells Community Support in May 2024. Dan joins the team after a varied career in both the public and private sectors working in both Wales and Australia. His most recent job prior to BWCS was working as a civil servant for the Welsh Government.
Sophie Humphreys
Receptionist
Sophie joined Community Support in January of 2023. She has lived and worked locally since leaving school and previously worked as a legal secretary.
Bev Stafford
Senior Home support worker
Bev has been with Builth and Llanwrtyd Home Support since it was launched in January 2023. She has worked in the care sector for the last 20 years and has successfully achieved NVQ Diploma Levels 2, 3 and 4 in Health and Social Care.
Julija Lovin
Home support worker
Julija came all the way from Latvia in 2019 and joined Builth and Llanwrtyd Wells Home Support in January 2023. She previously worked in domiciliary care and has attended and successfully completed more than 20 training courses relevant to her role. She enjoys meeting and supporting people daily (especially with a cup of tea and welshcakes!).
Joanne Nixon
EVIE Driver
Joanne joined BWCS in July 2021, becoming a part-time driver for our accessible electric MPV, Evie.
Sian Jones
EVIE Driver
Sian Joined the BWCS team in September of 2022 as one of our part-time drivers for our accessible electric MPV, Evie. After retiring from over 40 years in nursing, many as a District nurse in Builth, Sian wanted to continue doing something useful for people in the local community. The part time role allows her to help people by transporting them to hospital visits, local appointments, shopping and lunch club and she still has time to enjoy her family and grandchildren.
Polly Grace
BWCS Charity Shop Manager
Polly Joined the BWCS team in June 2023 enabling us to have the shop open on more days and have a more structured approach to the charity shop’s organisation and promotion. Polly was a primary school teacher for many years, teaching in the south of England and the Middle East. After two children, several relocations and a pandemic she decided to take a step back and work part time for a few years while her children are young. She loves antiques, vintage and collectables which means she is good at spotting which donated items might do well in an online auction! Polly likes to think all those years of putting up classroom displays also help when she is designing shop window displays!
Trustees
Jeremy Pugh
Chair of trustees
Jeremy became the Chair of Builth Community Support in July 2023. He is the county councillor for Builth ward at Powys County Council and was previously a professional rugby player playing for Neath and winning 3 Welsh international caps.
Gareth Bufton
Treasurer
Gareth became the Treasurer for Builth Wells Community Support in July 2023. Gareth has spent all his working life working for local firms of chartered accountants (Moore Scott & Co and Mitchell Meredith) before retiring in February 2022.
Allan Taylor
TRUSTEE
Allan has been with Community Support since 2017 as a volunteer driver. He became a trustee in July 2021. He is retired but previously worked in parcel delivery, railway structure maintenance and 25 years in the gas industry. Allan is a community councillor and says of BWCS that he is “proud to be a part of this wonderful and life changing organisation”.
Gareth Jones
Trustee
Gareth became a trustee for BWCS in July 2023. He has lived on the outskirts of Aberedw for the last 32 years. He is a qualified CIPFA accountant and worked for Powys County Council for 38 years before taking early retirement in 2018. Since which he has worked for CIPFA as a work based learning coach supporting students undertaking the level 7 CIPFA Accountancy Qualification. After taking early retirement he has become involved in a number of local charities linked to both the agricultural industry and care and wellbeing. Gareth is the local County Councillor for the Llanelwedd Ward on Powys County Council. He serves on the Health and Care and Learning Scrutiny Committees and is also a member of the Planning Committee. He also attends the meetings of the 4 Community Councils in his ward.
Sally Dwyer
Trustee
Sally became a trustee for BWCS in March 2024. Prior to moving to Builth to be closer to family, Sally spent her career working in London, New York and Tokyo as a technologist in the Financial Industry, covering various roles including data centre management, technology support, business continuity and technology risk management. In addition to her primary role, Sally was actively involved with charitable activities. In Tokyo she also served a term as President of the Association for Women in Finance, a cross industry group that organises regular speaker events for women in the financial services industry.
Bryan Davies
trustee
Bryan became a trustee for Builth Wells Community Support in July 2023. Bryan is the local County Councillor for the Llanafanfawr ward on Powys County Council.
Neil Howard
trustee
Neil became a trustee for BWCS in November 2024. He was Civil Servant for 42 years working in agricultural science, rural policy and European Funding Programmes before retiring in 2023. Neil was Chair of Cymryd Rhan for nine years when it was based in Llandrindod Wells which provided supported living to a wide range of people.