CLD Talks

By Conor MaxwellEducation

CLD Talks episodes

December 15, 2023 Diving into Generations Working Together with Bella Kerr
This week on CLD Talks Conor sits down with Bella Kerr from Generations working together who are the nationally recognised centre of excellence supporting the development and integration of intergenerational work across Scotland.

We talk about Bella’s currently work, ways practitioners can get involved with GTW, breaking down barriers to intergenerational practice and so much more!

Hope you all enjoy this weeks episode which is our last of 2023! Thanks for all the support and we will see you in the new year!

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https://generationsworkingtogether.org

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40 min
November 22, 2023 Discussing Men's Mental Health with Nick Miller
In this weeks episode we talk to Nick Millar from FARE Scotland. Nick is running a month long campaign about reducing the stigma around men’s mental health and chats to us about why he thinks this is so important.

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38 min
November 15, 2023 From behind the scenes to the hot seat with Ben Fox
This week on CLD Talks Conor and Iain sit down with our editor Ben Fox to share his own CLD Journey and what it is like behind the scenes being the editor of this podcast. He shares his plans for the future, how he got into being a youth worker, challenges of being the editor and so much more!

This was a really fun and unscripted chat and we also discuss our really exciting news of being a Constituted Organisation too!

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51 min
November 01, 2023 does youth work support young peoples mental health? With Andie Reynolds and Alison Ni Charraighe
In this weeks episode Iain hosts Andie Reynolds from University of Edinburgh and Alison Ni Charriaghe from Northumbria University as they explore their recent research into the role of youth workers in supporting young people’s mental health.
In a CLD Talks first, Iain is joined by Conor as all four explore the evolution of youthwork, current challenges and the differences between third and public sectors. You don’t want to miss it!
1 hr 47 min
October 18, 2023 Learning in Communities with Gary Fraser
This week on CLD Talks Conor travelled through the The University of Edinburgh to speak with Dr Gary Fraser, who is the Programme Director MA Learning in Communities course.

In this episode Gary shares his experience from front line youth and community work within various settings, why he decided to go into the world of academia, how he found doing his PHD and the contents of it and so much more!

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1 hr
October 04, 2023 Chatting Young People and Money with MyBnk
This week on CLD Talks Conor sits down with Lizzie and Paul who work for My Bnk and are based in Glasgow. My Bnk works together with young people to create and deliver innovative, high impact and high energy programmes covering topics such as saving, budgeting, debt and public and student finance.

This this episode we chat about the amazing work that MyBnk does round the country engaging with young people from age 7 - 25, why its important to discuss money at an early age and the real impact their programmes have on peoples lives.

For more information on MyBnk please go to:
https://www.mybnk.org/

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44 min
September 19, 2023 Celebrating the Cashback for Communities Youth Work Fund
This week on CLD Talks YouthLink Scotland's National Grants Manager Jane Dailly, Youth work manager, Shetland isles Martin Sommers, Tayside council on Alcohol’s Vikki Jeffrey and TD1 Youth Hub Manager Douglas Ormston discuss the impact of the CashBack for Communities Youth Work Fund over the last 15 years. The Fund supported over 440,000 young people since 2008, redirecting the proceeds of crime into the most deprived communities in Scotland.

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@YLSGrants Manager
@RamsayShetland
@Alcoholtayside
@DouglasOrmston
1 hr 11 min
September 06, 2023 Moving and Grooving with Laura Sutherland
This week on CLD Talks Conor catches up with Laura Sutherland who works for Farrans Construction Limited as a Community Business Partner within the Construction and Civil Engineering Industry.

In this episode we discuss Laura’s 15 year CLD Career from working in various settings including schools based, youth clubs, local authority and her current role which involves delivering community benefit workstreams for local communities within which construction and infrastructure are taking place. Laura shares her current progress with working towards a PHD within the School of Education and Social Sciences at The University West of Scotland and how she sees CLD change in the future!

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1 hr 22 min
August 23, 2023 CLD Talks sits down with the Scottish Youth Parliament!
This week on CLD Talks Ben and Conor travelled to the Scottish Youth Parliament Office in Edinburgh! We sat down with SYP CEO Jamie Dunlop and MSYP/ SYP Vice Chair Ellie Craig. We spoke with them about what the youth parliament does on a day to day basis, and their experience within the Scottish Youth Parliament and why they got involved with this brilliant organisation!
We hope you enjoy this weeks episode!
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For more information on the Scottish Youth Parliament read below:
Young people aged 14-25 have until midnight on Friday 1st September to sign up as a candidate in SYP’s elections – register at syp.org.uk/elections
From 6th November to 19th November 2023, young people across Scotland will vote to elect the MSYPs who will represent them for the next two years
You can find out more about the Elections on the SYP website at syp.org.uk/elections and look out for more details in the coming weeks on SYP’s social media channels - @OfficialSYP
51 min
August 10, 2023 CLD Talks goes to Uni
In todays episode ben and Conor went and visited the class of the community development course at Glasgow university and the community education course at UWS in these visits we gave the classes an insight into the podcasts background to how it first started and how’s it developed over time. We then invited some of the students from both classes to do a mini podcast with us talking around their journey within CLD and how they are enjoying there courses as they develop in their CLD Journey!

Enjoy!

Thanks again to both Annette Coalburn of UWS and Edward Beggan of Glasgow Uni for inviting us along!

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30 min