Gareth Evans
Founder, Cash Perks Gareth is leading authority on financial inclusion and local welfare provision and founded Cash Perks to help overcome the challenges of disbursing cash payments to vulnerable clients experiencing financial crisis.
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.