Christine Welsh joins Creators

Christine Welsh of the Sapphire Community Pantry is joining Creators of Community Ownership

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00:00 We're retiring in October and I laugh when I say retire because I didn't want to totally

00:06 step away from helping others and being involved in the community.

00:12 And I heard about the Creators and whilst I didn't know a lot about it, I just had a

00:18 gut feeling this is a darn good idea.

00:21 And I know April and I've worked with April on a number of things in the past and I actually

00:27 really respect April, I respect her business acumen and her ethics.

00:33 Now I grew up in the country, I know what it's like to not have access to medical and

00:38 health and how important it is and how the stats show that in fact the country people

00:43 have worse health outcomes than city folk.

00:47 We have such less choice and such less ability to actually access what's around.

00:53 Having had cancer last year I know what it's like to have to travel long distances.

00:57 I'm a very boring person who really loves writing policy and governance issues and those

01:01 sorts of things and I've also got lots of experience in how to start up a charity and

01:07 pitfalls and the things you need to know about.

01:10 So April reached out, reached back and a few weeks ago invited me to join the board as

01:17 a director and since then I've learned a lot more, still learning, but the whole concept

01:22 is fantastic and Eden really needs something like this.

01:28 It's got very few resources but I think it's going to be one of those really from little

01:32 things big things are going to come.