Over the past month I’ve volunteered a couple of hours with Skills for Hire Atlantic, doing two 1:1 mentoring sessions with people on their digital skills programmes. Skills for Hire Atlantic is a free, fully online, cohort-based training initiative that helps residents of Atlantic Canada develop the digital and professional skills.

For the past nine months, I have been working with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) as Head of Delivery in the Funding Service team. It has been a period of deep immersion in the world of grant funding: a fast-paced, high-stakes environment supporting policy teams to get vital applications out into the world.