CLD Talks

This week on CLD Talks Stephanie, Ben and Conor went to the YouthLink Scotland Awards to speak with all the winner! It was an amazing event and we had a great time!

This is our first video podcast which can be watched on Spotify! 

Congratulations to all the winners:

Arts & Creativity (Sponsored by Creative Scotland)

Angus expressive arts project

Community-Based Youth Work (Sponsored by Scottish Fire & Rescue Service)

At Paul’s youth forum staff team

Digital & STEM (Sponsored by SQA)

Pride and Pixels (LGBT Youth Scotland)

Environment & Conservation (Sponsored by Nature Scot)

North Lanarkshire Youth Climate Ambassadors (North Lanarkshire Council)

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (sponsored by YMCA Scotland)

Mitchell Graham (Deaf Action)

Health & Wellbeing (Sponsored by BBC Children in Need)

Regenfx Go To Mental Health Service

Inspirational Leader (Sponsored by Scottish Government)

Kelly Ross (Dumfries & Galloway Council)

Participation & Youth Voice (Sponsored by Scottish Government)

Hannah Brisbane (Girlguiding Scotland)

Recognising Skills & Achievement (Sponsored by Education Scotland)

Step Forward Wick Youth Team

Team of the Year (sponsored by CLD Standards Council Scotland)

North Lanarkshire CLD YW Team

Youth Worker of the Year (sponsored by Education Scotland and Scottish Community Safety Network)

Siobhan Gray (Renfrewshire Council)

Lifetime Achievement Award - Fellowship of YouthLink Scotland

Ian McLaughlan (Youth Scotland)

Sascha Macleod (The BIG Project)

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This week on CLD Talks Conor chats with Maggie Murphy who is a Senior Curricular Manager within Glasgow Kelvin College. We have a great chat about Maggie’s career within CLD including secondment posts which changed Maggie's thinking, college options, safe guarding, opportunities to speak at European Parliament, the pandemic and so much more!

It was great to come to the college to record this in person, I hope you all enjoy this episode!

https://www.glasgowkelvin.ac.uk/courses/hnc-working-communities/

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This week on CLD Talks Stephanie speaks to Brian Keenan. Brian is currently project manager at Saltcoats Link Up, an asset-based community development project in Ayrshire. Brian shares his CLD journey from working with the homeless community in Dublin, his time in Govanhill in Glasgow to his current role at Saltcoats Link Up. We also chat about his PHD studies exploring the community of Parkrun and much more.

We hope you enjoy this episode and for further information you can visit the following websites:

Link Up - supporting communities throughout Scotland (inspiringscotland.org.uk)

home | parkrun UK

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This week on CLD Talks Conor is joined by Dr. Sarah Ward who is a Lecturer in Learning in Communities within The University of Edinburgh. Sarah tells us about her career in Glasgow, changing focus to complete her PHD, impact of the pandemic, current role and so much more in-between!

For more information on the University of Edinburgh’s CLD Courses:

MA Learning in Communities (MALiC)

https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/degrees/index.php?action=view&code=X321

Programme Director: Dr. Gary Fraser

Gary. [email protected]

MSc Social Justice and Community Action/PGDip/PGCert

https://www.ed.ac.uk/education/graduate-school/taught-degrees/social-justice-community

Programme Director: Dr. Andie Reynolds

[email protected]

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This week on CLD Talks Conor and Ben went to the capital to meet Orielle Taylor who is a Senior Development Officer within No Knives, Better Lives - National Delivery Team.

NKBL is a collaboration between the Scottish Government and YouthLink Scotland—the national agency for youth work in Scotland. We’re a national initiative, delivered at local level with support available to any local authority in Scotland.

In this podcast we discuss History of NKBL’s, what work do they do including upcoming projects, support available to young people and practitioners and so much more!

We hope you enjoy this podcast and if you would like an input or more information go to the following website:

https://noknivesbetterlives.com/

Socials:

Instagram - nkblscotland

Twitter - NKBLScotland

Facebook - No Knives Better Lives Scotland

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-OgTmKZyghKiipmTXlGQ9g

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This week on CLD Talks Conor speaks with Jim McHarg who had an amazing career in various roles including Senior Manager in North Ayrshire responsible for Community Empowerment and Community Engagement

We discuss Jim’s career in CLD, history of youth work through work Jim’s Dad did after the war, education, the need for more adult learning and so much more!

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Thanks for listening!

Cheers

Conor

This week on CLD Talks Conor and Ben have a chat with Vicky Wilson who is a Community Development Team Manager for Fife Council. Vicky kindly travelled to Larkhall Universal Connections to record this episode.

We have a great chat about how Vicky started her career within CLD, her time at university, going back to do her masters, work during lockdown and the Covid 19 pandemic, national pieces of work and so much more!

Please head over to Twitter @Propracticefife to connect with Vicky to see all the amazing work she does.

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Thanks for listening!

Cheers

Conor

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/

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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

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