Nicola Roberts is an account director at Warwick Emanuel PR & Film in Cardiff. She has considerable experience of working and advising clients within the social housing and regeneration sectors in Wales and other parts of the UK. A marketing graduate, Nicola has worked on and directed various regeneration campaigns and works for one of the UK’s largest housing maintenance and estate management specialists. Nicola was voted ‘Young Communicator of the Year 2005-6’ by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Cymru Wales. Before joining Warwick Emanuel, Nicola worked in the UK headquarters of Compaq Computer Ltd and in a consultancy serving consumer brands.

Building more than bricks and mortar

Social housing organisations in Wales are taking the lead in answering youth employment and low skills levels. Is this a template for the future, or will impending cuts in public spending leave them as one of the few training providers left?