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Apprentice Report:
My time at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
My time at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Southwark was an experience I will never forget. I really
enjoyed my 15 months as an apprentice there. I was able
to learn a lot and mature as a person, meet fantastic
people and new experience things. My goal was to
complete my apprenticeship and thankfully I was
able to do so, I gained brilliant skills and I would
recommend working there.
My job title was Fundraising Apprentice, so I was a
part of the fundraising team. My day-to day tasks
included calling and emailing parishes, Gift Aid
coordinators and donors. I was also involved in training
Gift Aid Coordinators, undertaking lots of essential
administrative tasks, organising events, taking the post
and plenty more. It was a very hands-on role which
gave me the opportunity to interact with all sorts of
different people, use different systems and websites to
access certain queries and work on my telephone skills.
I went on to build a very strong rapport with some of
the parishes and coordinators.
I started in the midst of the lockdown in early 2021
so I initially was working from home for my first
two months but was eventually able to meet my
team and other staff members in person. Although
I thought the role would be challenging, I was able
to adapt to the work quicker than I expected, I was
grateful to have the help of my Team; Mia Gilmour,
Laura Dudhee, and my manager, Roisin McLaughlin.
I receiving training on range of tasks, which was
very beneficial and played a big part in my becoming
familiar with tasks that I would be expected to
deliver. I would like to thank our ICT Officer, Aaron
Dennis, who was able to get essential equipment
sent over to me when I started my apprenticeship:
it wasn’t an easy journey for him to deliver the
equipment, but he managed to do so.
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