This week on CLD Talks Ben and Conor go to Fuse Youth Cafe and speak with Sharon and Ashley about the amazing work that they do. We also have Caitlin and Keigan who host the young person led podcast “Talk 2 Me”.

Fuse Youth Café Glasgow is a charity working in East Glasgow providing a variety of services to young people of the area. The area has a high level of deprivation and the young people face the risks and challenges associated with areas of high deprivation.

Talk 2 Me

The Talk2me podcast is recorded in Fuse Youth Cafe located in Glasgow Scotland and funded by Cashback for Communities. Presenters, Keigan and Caitlin discuss various topics as suggested by you the listener, voicing their thoughts, feelings and opinions on the matters.

https://anchor.fm/talk2mefuse/

For more information on Fuse youth cafe follow this link:

https://www.fuseonline.org.uk/

Find us on Twitter

@CLD Talks

Welcome to CLD Talks Shorts - A new segment for the Podcast were we highlight some key topics within CLD where I encourage dialog and conversation with us over on Twitter and more importantly with your colleagues in your work place. This will be to share ideas, practice, reflect on our own work and share some up beat good moments you are having within CLD.

I am looking for ideas, topics and people who would like to share a groups achievement, positive moment no matter how big or small.

You can use our message link to send us a message which we can feature on our shorts!

https://anchor.fm/cld-talks/message

Get in touch over on twitter @CLDTalks with your ideas!

Thanks very much. Catch yous next time!

This week on CLD Talks Conor catch’s up with Steven Youngson who is the Team Leader for Lanark Universal Connections. Steven has worked with Youth Family Community Learning Services within South Lanarkshire Council for 15 years and has worked within rural settings for the majority of his career.

We discuss Steven’s career including his recent promotion, when he knew a career in CLD was for him, advantages and challenges of rural community work, digital youth work, using strategy gaming and the benefits it has for young people and so much more!

Connect with Steven Youngson - https://www.facebook.com/lanarkuc13

Follow us on Twitter @CLDTalks

This week on CLD Talks I am joined by Alan Sherry, OBE, who is chair of the Community Learning and Development Standards Council for Scotland. He sits on the board of Fuse Youth Café which is located in the East of the City. He was appointed to the Scottish Education Council in December 2021.

We discuss Alan’s Career from the college sector, national pieces of work and why he got involved with so many projects, his role as Chair of the Community Learning and Development Standards Council and so much more!

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Connect with Alan via Twitter @AlanSherry1

Find us on Twitter @CLDTalks to stay up to date with everything CLD Talks.

Happy 1st Birthday CLD Talks!

In this Episode Stephanie asks Conor about how he started CLD Talks and more details of how it became a real thing.

We have Adele who returns to give us an update on her year in CLD.

Finally, Conor and Stephanie discuss some key themes which have come from the podcasts.

I am so proud to have brought these podcasts to the Community Learning and Development world and still can’t believe the support from everyone. I’d like to thank everyone who has featured on the podcast, everyone behind the scenes who has helped me along the way, Stephanie and Vic for hosting episodes, Ben for editing the in person podcasts and most importantly every single person who has taken the time to listen to the podcast. Seeing how many people listen helps me know this is all worth while. I really hope you enjoy this episode and welcome to Season 4 of CLD Talks!

Cheers

Conor

Twitter @CLDTalks

Welcome to CLD Talks

CLD Talks has been set up to raise the profile of Community Learning Development across Scotland. We will have Talks with front line community workers from third sector and statutory organisations, managers and decision makers to share practice, promote their work and some feel good moments of their careers.

This started off as identified gap in the Podcasting world and now we have almost 30 episodes with amazing guests and organisations who truly help people. 2022 will be no different. We are continually growing the podcast and as you can see on if you are watching this we have early access to Video Podcasts on Spotify! Will be interesting trying to explore this!

Hope everyone has enjoyed the podcasts so far and I’m looking forward to bringing you Season 4 at the end of January.

Thanks for all the support, Merry Christmas and Happy New year from all of us here and catch you all soon!

This week on CLD Talks we speak to Karen Anderson who is the Founder and Director for She Scotland. SHE aims to support girls and young women become more empowered, supported, aspirational & improve their life chances.

We had a really insightful conversation about the history of She Scotland, Karen’s own journey, going international and the challenges and opportunities for girls and women in Scotland today.

Socials:

https://www.shescotland.org.uk/our-team

https://www.facebook.com/she.scotland.9?fref=ts

https://twitter.com/she_scotland

https://www.instagram.com/shescotland/

Https://twitter.com/cldtalks

This week on CLD Talks I was joined in person at East Kilbride Universal Connections (The Key) with Tim Frew who is the Chief Executive of Youth Link Scotland. Tim sets the scene of his career leading up to his current role, growing up in Northern Ireland, discusses role models, how the sector is just now, the challenge of COVID 19 and so much more!

This is an honest conversation and I really hope you all enjoy it!

Socials

https://twitter.com/timfrew

https://twitter.com/YouthLinkScot

https://twitter.com/CldTalks

https://twitter.com/EastUniversal

This week on CLD Talks I have the pleasure to speak with Susan Hunter who is the Chief Executive for Youth Borders who work in partnership and collaboration with a range of organisations regionally and nationally.

We discuss Susan’s career for far, Youth Borders and how they support the local community and ‘A Force For Good’ a piece of research which was commissioned by Youth Borders.

Links:

https://youthborders.org.uk/force-for-good/

https://youthborders.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/YouthBorders

https://twitter.com/CldTalks