CLD Talks

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

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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

This week on CLD Talks we bring you the first in person Podcast we have done! Our guests are the Team from Landed Jax, Robbie, Tamsin and Aaron. We discuss the history of Landed, how they use a harm reduction approach, what their workshops are all about, the development of resources and so much more!

Special thanks to Ben for managing the sound desk!

For more info on Landed - https://www.landed.info/

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This week on CLD Talks I chat with Ryan McKay who works for the Citadel Youth Centre in Edinburgh. Ryan talks to us about Intergenerational Practice and they projects that they run, examples of good practice, how they adapted to the digital world his CLD journey and so much more. This is a must listen to anyone who is unsure about what intergenerational practice is and its benefits for all parties.

https://twitter.com/CitadelYCLeith

https://twitter.com/RyanRMcKay1

https://citadelyouthcentre.org.uk/

Twitter @CLDTalks to join the conversation

This week I catch up with Gary Brown who is a National Leadership Network Development Co-ordinator (Young People with Care Experience) with Life Changes Trust. We discuss Gary's youth work background within a Local Authority, switching to his current role during the pandemic, how important policy is to young people and staff, different work Gary has been involved with and so much more. 

All round good chat so I hope you enjoy it!

To connect with Gary - [email protected] or Twitter - @garybrown68

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