Do you do co-pro in N Wales AND speak Welsh?

[Noreen Blanluet]

Dear all, this is a request for help! I'm on a mission to find someone in North Wales who's involved in co-production and who speaks Welsh.

It’s for Diana Reynolds – she’s the Change Manager in the Environment and Sustainable Development part of Welsh Government. She’s been coproduction advocate for... ever – and is now in a position to get WG to function in a co-produced way, slowly but surely! She’s very inspiring, and is having a great impact on the teams she’s working with, and she’s (it goes without saying) a very lovely lady.

She’s been asked to speak at Gwynedd County Council, about co-production, in the second half of February. The date is not fixed yet because she’s hoping to be accompanied by a Welsh-speaking co-production practitioner, and so would work out available dates with them before settling a date with GCC. She’s a Welsh speaker herself and will be talking about co-production from a WG angle; and she’d love to have someone with her who’s doing co-pro “on the front lines” to tell the story from their perspective.

Can you help, or can you think of anyone who might be able to? I'm happy to do the getting in touch with them and explaining all of the above if you can point me in the right direction!

The catch is - this is pretty urgent because I'm away all of next week. So I would like to get back to her in the next few days with some suitable contacts so she can plan dates etc. Any help you are able provide will be very much appreciated indeed!

Many thanks,

Noreen