CLD Talks

This week on CLD Talks Conor and Ben travelled to the @ Home Youth Centre in Airdre to speak with June Ford who is the Youth Work Manager for North Lanarkshire Council. June is also the Chair of the LA Youth Work Managers Group and a Co Opted Trustee  of Youth Scotland.

In this conversation we discuss June’s experience of finding out what CLD was, to her university experience, first job and the connections/ relationships built there, June’s current role and what NLC do to support young people and so much more!

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Twitter - @juneford78

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Welcome to CLD Talks 2023 and this week our guest is the amazing Beth Parker who is a Community Development worker for Glasgow Kelvin College. Beth is currently working towards a Masters with Glasgow University.

We have a great conversation about Beth’s CLD journey from being active within her local community with her Mum, beginning to study CLD at college then uni, her passion for outdoor education and the benefits it has for practitioners and the young people and families we work with and so much more!

It was a great chat and I hope you all enjoy it.

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@bethstephaniecd

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This week on CLD Talks Conor was welcomed into the Scottish Parliament to have a conversation with Mr. Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Constituency. Jamie is also the Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training.

In this Episode we discuss the Adult Learning and forthcoming Youth Work Strategy and what these mean for practitioners and learners. We also discuss Jamie's role as an MSP and what it is involves, where CLD is at the moment from Jamie's point of view and so much more. 

This was a great experience and I'd like to thank everyone who helped make this episode happen. I hope you all enjoy!

Jamie Hepburn Official site - https://www.parliament.scot/msps/current-and-previous-msps/jamie-hepburn

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This week on CLD Talks Conor catches up with Tila and Ian who formed Catch the Light, which is a Youth and Community Development Consultancy organisation. We have a great conversation from how they met, CLD work they done before Catch the Light, challenges of running a organisation, highlights and so much more!

I hope you all enjoy this weeks episodes!

Message from Tila:

I encourage everyone to sign up for the Youth Work is Human Rights Work conference in December. It is a great honour to be chairing this event, with an amazing variety of international speakers and examples of why youth work is so important. Understandably bookings are moving fast. Best not delay on this one!

https://www.youthlinkscotland.org/events/december-2022/youthlink-scotland-policy-convention-youth-work-is-human-rights-work/

Link to the CLD Professional Induction course:

https://www.i-develop-cld.org.uk/course/view.php?id=188

This is the sharelink:

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1540383954983452673

Some other examples of work:

Police Scotland Youth Volunteers - development of learning resources www.psyv.org

Peer Education resources for NKBL https://www.noknivesbetterlives.com/peer-education/

Evaluation of CashBack for Communities investment in youth work https://www.youthwork.info/

Sail Another Day, poem by Tila, performance by Ocean Youth Trust members: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=336731820761870

Website - https://www.catchthelight.biz

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This week on CLD Talks Conor sits down with Biddy Kelly who is the Managing Director for Edinburgh based organisation Fresh Start. In this episode we discuss the full circle moment Biddy had when she became the Managing Director, the support Fresh Start off the community, how the organisation has evolved and so much more!

Fresh Start's mission is to ‘help people make a home for themselves’. The words are simple, but behind those words are the passion and commitment of our staff, volunteers and donors to break the cycle of homelessness.

We got a tour of their premises and were blown away by all the hard work put in by staff and volunteers. Keep up the great work!

We hope you enjoy this weeks podcast, remember to subscribe and share amongst your networks!

Website - https://www.freshstartweb.org.uk/

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This week on CLD Talks Conor is joined by Suzanne Clark and Kieran Wardrop from Vibrant Communities.

As Vibrant Communities approaches its 10th birthday, we hear the story of how the service was formed, developed and continues to evolve to best serve communities in East Ayrshire by putting them at the heart of everything we do.

Suzanne and Kieran talk us through the opportunities and challenges of trying to do things differently in local authority community development and creating a CLD approach and culture change across the Council.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eavibrantcommunities

Twitter: https://twitter.com/vibranteac

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQUXh0_1so9CyrJ7ythXjYQ

Welcome to Season 5 of CLD Talks!

This week Conor is joined by Charis Roberston and Makaela from Hot Chocolate Trust and Jean McEwan-Short from the University of Dundee. In this episode we discuss the unique partnership and 1st year module called "Youth Work Practice: Hot Chocolate Trust', which is ran from Hot Chocolate rather than the classroom. We discuss Hot Chocolate Trusts origins, how Charis and Jean created the concept for the module, why young people have a Co-Lecture role plus the benefits and so much more!

This was a great conversation and a well over due road trip. Thanks for hosting the discussion!

Hope you are enjoy this weeks episode.

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Hot Chocolate Trust Website - https://www.hotchocolate.org.uk/ 

Hot Chocolate Twitter @Hotchocotrust

University of Dundee Community Education Website - https://www.dundee.ac.uk/undergraduate/community-education

University of Dundee Community Education Twitter - UoDCommEd

This week on CLD Talks Stephanie speaks with Paddy McKenna who is a Community Development Manager with Cassiltoun Housing Association. They have a great chat about how Paddy got into CLD, her travels including learning experiences, the work she currently does and so much more. This is a great conversation and we hope you enjoy!

This episode marks the final episode of Season 4 of CLD Talks. Thanks as always for all the support! We will be bringing you Season 5 after the Summer holidays, until then get in touch if you would like to feature on an episode to share your or your organisations journey.

Twitter: @PaddyMcK

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