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My name is Fresia Campbell and my job title is Facilities Manager.  I look after the corporate cleaning contract and also the corporate security contract and added on to that I also look after the common parts within a building to ensure that it's safe for staff to use and it covers all the heath and safety regulations.

I stayed in school until I was 16, then I had to start thinking about career options. So I went to the careers office and we had some advice what was the best route I could take.  An admin assistant was one of the routes they suggested, and I got six jobs.  So I looked at the six and decided which one paid the most and that's the job I went for, and that was the Cabinet office at Whitehall.

Along the way I had some really inspiring and influential managers that have encouraged me. Where I started as an admin assistant they saw more in me, and they were able to pull more out, by either advising me to go for a particular job or just training me up, so I've been very fortunate while I've been in Lewisham to be trained up and encouraged to try other areas of work.

Outside my work I'm a foster carer, so I look after young people. My passion is to go and work in the community. I believe you can do anything you want to do; you may not necessarily have the qualifications but you can find a way round it and get the qualifications. I've had to go back to learning to get qualified for the job I'm doing at the moment so it's not impossible.  If it's not impossible for me to go back after so long, it's not impossible for anybody else.