Welcome

My name's Will Bouquet and I am a marketing officer at Lewisham Council. Essentially my job is making messages for people that live in Lewisham, e.g. it might be around recycling, or it might be around events that the council is holding, like black history month, which is an event that we hold annually, or people's day, which is south east London's biggest community festival. Our job is to talk to people in the organisation and on their behalf make messages, that be can be understood and are attractive for people who live in Lewisham.

In the city, I worked in a corporate action and mergers department as an assistant. I'd left university and decided I wanted to go into that line of work, because, I'm not quite sure why now, but I think it was financial, financially driven. I was sitting there at my computer one day, and I thought "I don't want to be doing this for a very long time", and I took some time away, took some time to think about things and I applied for an advert in the paper, to become an assistant here, in the press office.

It's an excellent place to work; lots of people in the council, also live in the area. I think it's something like half of the people that work for Lewisham Council live in the area; they have a vested interest in caring for their area. So you have a lot of very motivated people, a lot of people who want to work for where they live - it's not just a motivation for personal gain.