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A day in the life of ... Paul Bryson (PSU Coordinator, Bristol)

Date:5 NOV 2015
Paul Bryson PSU Coordination Bristol

This article was written in support of National Pro Bono Week running from 2–6 November 2015.

National Pro Bono Week is a nationwide campaign to celebrate the range and impact of voluntary free legal services provided by the legal profession. Support the campaign on Twitter using 
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What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?

I am the PSU Bristol Coordinator. My role is primarily about ensuring the PSU service is available to clients in the Bristol Civil and Family Justice Centre. The daily priority is to ensure that we have enough volunteers available but my role also involves recruiting and training volunteers promoting the service throughout the city and fundraising the keep the service free to clients.

How long have you been in this role and what brought you here?

I opened the Bristol unit in January 2014. After many years in the corporate world I really felt I needed to fo something with more of a human outcome and rook a redundancy package in 2012 without any real idea of exactly what I was going...

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