Community Initiative Charity

Community Initiative has 3 Trustees and 5 Members

The Chair has been a Fitness Instructor since 1999 and a college tutor since 2003 & holds a PGCE Teaching Qualification, as well as many Fitness & Personal Training courses attended over the years keeping up her CPD credits. She has written courses that were part of the REPS CDP Courses (now Chartered Institute for the Management of Sports and Physical Activity).

During the Chair’s teaching career, she has taught Learning Difficulties & Disabilities in Sport, IT and Life Skills. BTec IT L1 & L2 courses and L2 Business Studies at Hertford Regional College.

The Chair (Jacqui Smith) has worked with the community for over 25 years teaching fitness classes to the residents of Buntingford, Cheshunt and Bishop’s Stortford and working with Hertfordshire Sports Partnership, (part of the Hertfordshire University)

The Vice Chair (Daniella Bavetta) was a former member of CI and has been working with the Chair for over 8 years in the fitness industry teaching in the community with children and both adults. Dani has been dancing since the age of 3 and at 16 she decided to make a career out of her passion and studied dancing, singing and acting at Colins performing arts for 3 years and graduated her L3 Diploma with distinction. Since leaving college she has taught dance in all disciplines including ballet, tap, modern, street and hip hop.

Alongside dancing Dani’s always had a passion for keeping fit and training other people to lead healthy lifestyles. In 2015 she became a fully qualified fitness instructor, where she met Jacqui back in 2017!! From there she took her Fitness Pilates course and has been working alongside Jacqui ever since teaching Pilates, Dance Fit, Strength  and HIIT Classes.

Trustee 3 is the bookkeeper with over 40 years experience who looks after the budgets, costing and account records of CI.

CI has an additional 5 fitness instructors who are all members (not trustees) of CI to assist with the running of courses, and an appropriate instructor(s) will be working on each individual project under the supervision and training of the Chair. CI writes all courses, lesson plans and keeps instructors up to date with training throughout the year.