Gareth Evans

Gareth is leading authority on financial inclusion, community finance and local welfare provision, with over 20 years’ experience. He is Co-Director of the not-for-profit Financial Inclusion Centre, which specialises in undertaking research/evaluation studies and implementing initiatives. He also recently sat on the HM Treasury Financial Inclusion Policy Forum. In 2020, Gareth founded Cash Perks – a multi award-winning cash payment facility enabling welfare payments to be instantly sent via SMS text message. This innovative solution allows the recipient to collect their funds for free 24/7 at local ATMs nationwide – without the need for a bank card. It has already been adopted to send almost £10 million of funds to struggling households facing financial crisis.