I admire people who have the ability to reinvent themselves, or learn new skills to improve their current lifestyle and circumstances.

These are the people that make a difference to our communities, towns  and country.

Life’s contributors.

We all know someone who is constantly learning something new or improving their skills.

We see them attending classes, night school and college, networking events and workshops, we even read about them in our local newspapers.

Many of my close friends and connections are like this or have these traits and I have found to my advantage that more often than not, these qualities can be quite contagious.

With redundancies increasing in the area as a result of challenges in the steel industry and the knock on effect to businesses far and wide, help, guidance and encouragement is now needed to assist our communities to develop and grow so that they can continue to support their families and have a purposeful future.

If there’s one thing us Welsh are good at, it’s pulling together in times of need.