This is my first post to my new blog, and it is very exciting indeed! My good friend and colleague from Wales, Stella Wells was asked to be a 'pilot' several years ago for the Fund, and now the baton passes to me to pilot this new approach to raising awareness for the organisation.
I presume that to have come to this site, you have some familiarity with the Fund, but perhaps you have stumbled upon us quite by accident. If you look at the previous post in my blog from Jamie Hill, you can link to the very excellent DVD that was produced for us and gives a very good idea of the kind of work we do and the people that we are able to help. Please have a look at it, and feel free to leave any comments that you care to make about the DVD or indeed the Fund in general.
Speaking of comments leads me to the kind of blog I think I intend creating here and the conditions in which we will operate. Although I have done a little blogging in the past, the focus on this site will be on matters relating to the work of the Fund, but I hope to be able to refer to wider issues and ideas as well. We are living in a period of great economic change and challenge, and I hope to deal with those kind of themes on a regular basis.
However, the first issues that needs to be dealt with concerns confidentiality. I will never divulge or reveal the details of any of the clients that I have dealings with, unless there is express permission to do so. However, even with this, I don't foresee using these kinds of details, so I hope that this provides reassurance to anyone who feels that this type of approach could prove to be threatening in that way. The Fund offers a completely confidential and independent service, and I intend to uphold and promote that central value on this site as well.
There may be times when people would like to contact me personally for advice through the Blog, or perhaps for a referral to one of my regional colleagues or Fund House. Please feel free to do this as well, and you will be guaranteed the same level of confidentiality as with all our other contact points. You can leave a comment here, or contact me at sheila.fitzgerald@csbf.org.uk
Finally, I think a word about who I am and what I do is in order! I am the Regional Services Coordinator for the Fund in Northern Ireland. In this role, I am mainly concerned with helping former, retired and serving Civil Servants who find themselves in a position of need for one reason or another. I will use this blog to demonstrate more fully how we can help people, but the short answer is always: If you need help, please ask us to see what we can do. There may be times when our advice and information service can be as valuable if not more valuable than financial assistance, so I think that there is nearly always a way in which we can provide help to you.
Please feel free to leave a comment here if you would like to make any comments or suggestions, or if there is a topic that you would like to see discussed. See you all soon!
Sheila
I presume that to have come to this site, you have some familiarity with the Fund, but perhaps you have stumbled upon us quite by accident. If you look at the previous post in my blog from Jamie Hill, you can link to the very excellent DVD that was produced for us and gives a very good idea of the kind of work we do and the people that we are able to help. Please have a look at it, and feel free to leave any comments that you care to make about the DVD or indeed the Fund in general.
Speaking of comments leads me to the kind of blog I think I intend creating here and the conditions in which we will operate. Although I have done a little blogging in the past, the focus on this site will be on matters relating to the work of the Fund, but I hope to be able to refer to wider issues and ideas as well. We are living in a period of great economic change and challenge, and I hope to deal with those kind of themes on a regular basis.
However, the first issues that needs to be dealt with concerns confidentiality. I will never divulge or reveal the details of any of the clients that I have dealings with, unless there is express permission to do so. However, even with this, I don't foresee using these kinds of details, so I hope that this provides reassurance to anyone who feels that this type of approach could prove to be threatening in that way. The Fund offers a completely confidential and independent service, and I intend to uphold and promote that central value on this site as well.
There may be times when people would like to contact me personally for advice through the Blog, or perhaps for a referral to one of my regional colleagues or Fund House. Please feel free to do this as well, and you will be guaranteed the same level of confidentiality as with all our other contact points. You can leave a comment here, or contact me at sheila.fitzgerald@csbf.org.uk
Finally, I think a word about who I am and what I do is in order! I am the Regional Services Coordinator for the Fund in Northern Ireland. In this role, I am mainly concerned with helping former, retired and serving Civil Servants who find themselves in a position of need for one reason or another. I will use this blog to demonstrate more fully how we can help people, but the short answer is always: If you need help, please ask us to see what we can do. There may be times when our advice and information service can be as valuable if not more valuable than financial assistance, so I think that there is nearly always a way in which we can provide help to you.
Please feel free to leave a comment here if you would like to make any comments or suggestions, or if there is a topic that you would like to see discussed. See you all soon!
Sheila
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