Miss Katie Wilcock

A unique, mature individual who has started to develop excellent skills, experience and values gained through a variety of volunteering opportunities and educational pursuits.  Deeply passionate about using life’s own experiences to support and advocate for others.  Takes pride in offering reliability, responsibility and commitment.  Thorough understanding of the worldwide autism community but capable of adapting, without judgement, and offer person centred interactions and communications.

Key Skills

• Offers excellent adaptable communication skills – with strong verbal skills
• Can take time to listen, empathise and understand people's Neurodiversity
• Easily follows instructions to complete tasks
• Enjoys being a part of a team with the same aims missions and likes to take into account the bigger picture
• Supporting skills – gained through peer mentoring and youth empowerment
• Advocacy Skills 
• Partnership working and engagement – experience of working with organisations and sitting on focus groups to provide insight, 
• Understands the importance of being able to signpost to partnering organisations for support
• Excellent ICT Skills including MS Packages
• Good level of literacy and numeracy

Volunteering and Experience

Self-gained experience (no income)

Amateur Content Creator

• Producing variety content and being involved with many online communities in order to create a positive presence on various online platforms.

Canal Trust Easter Event at Pontnewydd Park 20 Aril 2025

• Assisted in decorating the gazebos used to hold the event from
• Brought a big bubble wand to entertain the children, amassing over 10 children of various ages
• Kept the safety of the public in mind
• Followed safeguarding rules and was supervised by various other expereinced and licensed stewards

Forgehammer, Cwmbran 20 December 2024

Volunteer

• Followed given instructions for a christmas decoration craft for families including young children
• Event raised money to feed a class of Gaza Children

Canal Trust 01 December 2024

Volunteer Steward (Five Locks Basin)

• Participated in the installation and decoration of a Christmas Grotto from a Gazebo as part of a team of other steward volunteers from the 46 Lock Canal Trust.
• Provided a safe environment in orderly manner for those waiting to meet Santa and spread the Christmas Spirit of joy and magic

Torfaen Pride Pontypool Park 1st June 2024

Volunteer Steward

• Worked within various positions switching per hour of agreed shift
• Working backstage helping the acts feel comfortable and keep the show going
• Fundraised for Torfaens Friends Of Dorothy with a bucket collection with a fellow volunteer.
• Parking assistant
• Used a handheld radio to keep informed with the rest of the event team
• Volunteered to run errands and checks throughout the events to help keep the event successful

JDdotST 2020 - 2023

Community Moderator on Twitch and Discord

Go Girls Bron Afon Project 2017 – 2022 (with a Covid Pause)

Variety of Job Roles in Youth Empowerment 

• Initially a service user of Go Girls then progressed to peer mentor in 2019.  Creating workshops and assisting in pre-planned workshops and running sessions covering the following topics:  Women in the Media, History, Mental and physical Health, Girls Women's rights
• Assisting campaigns based on the topics learnt for example; a short YouTube Film

Education & Training

Welsh Government Social Model Training 2023

Peer Mentor Level 1 2019

Play work Level 1 2012

Croesyceiliog 6th Form 2012 - 2014

AS Levels – English & Religious Studies

Croesyceiliog Secondary School 2012

GCSE’s  - Maths English Lit and Lang, Geography, Additional Science, Welsh, Catering Religious Studies

BTEC Business

Interests and Hobbies

• Foraging in nature and the Welsh Countryside
• Cozy Gaming
• Writing, Short Stories and Poems
• Using PC’s, keen to continue developing skills and understanding in this area
• Anime
• Community Volunteer, from projects to peer mentoring and all inbetween
• Following Autism Diagnosis, enthusiastic about Difficulty and Autism Advocacy
• Enjoys discussions with others over a variety of topics