Nick Hudd

Nick Hudd is currently a Senior Youth Work Practitioner for Pembrokeshire County Council and has worked in the youth work sector for over 20 years,  for both statutory and voluntary organisations. Nick is a JNC qualified youth worker and has a BA(Hons) in Youth and Community Work from UWTSD. He has worked in his current role, focused on the prevention of youth homelessness for the past 5 years.  

Nick has been responsible for developing, planning, facilitating, and evaluating a range of youth work programmes and interventions and believes early identification and co-production, involving young people, a range of professional stakeholders and community representatives is key to their success. With youth work in Wales aimed at young people aged 11-25, he believes its pedagogy and methodology can complement other forms of education to aid the transition from dependence to independence.   

In addition to his current role addressing youth homelessness, Nick is also an advocate of ensuring young people are supported and encouraged to develop their self-efficacy so that they have belief in their own abilities to go on and achieve in all aspects of their lives. He has therefore developed a range of self-efficacy training packages and resources that aid practitioners incorporate these elements in their engagement and work with young people. 

Nick is married to Kerry, and they are both parents to Keeley, Dylan and Seren. Outside of youth work Nick enjoys painting and drawing, mostly portraits. And is a keen rugby and F1 fan.