About Us

Learning Link Scotland Staff

Jayne Stuart - Director
Susan Walls - Deputy Director
Shirley Grieve - Training and Skills Development Co-ordinator
Alice Hoeper - Information and Communication Officer
Stephanie Haigh - Administrator

Learning Link Scotland Executive Committee

George Thomson - Chair         Volunteer Development Scotland
Fiona Craig - Vice Chair            Linked Work and Training Trust
Joyce Connon - Treasurer         Worker's Educational Association

Asma Abdalla  - Member          Amina
Stephen Fernand  - Member    LEAD Scotland
Kenny Anderson   - Member    SWAPWest
Dr Jack Dyce   - Member          Scottish United Reformed and Congregational College
Jackie Slater   - Member           Deaf Action
Lara Moir  - Member                 CraigOwl Communities
Pamela Couper   - Member     Sikh Sanjog
Sarah Cox   - Member               Glasgow ESOL Forum

Our Purpose

To ensure Voluntary Sector Adult Education and Learning creates a successful, dynamic and forward thinking Scotland

Our Mission

We exist to support, promote, represent and develop the adult learning third sector in Scotland. Working with our partners we will:

Support the development of a strong, independent and vibrant voluntary sector adult education in Scotland, to provide quality learning opportunities to a diverse range of individuals and communities.

Enable the voluntary sector to fulfil its lifelong learning, social inclusion and democratic responsibilities, and therefore participate in the development of a fair, equal and sustainable society in Scotland.

Ensure that voluntary sector adult education is at the heart of decision making and forefront of service delivery in Scotland.

What we do

Policy Development

Leading and Influencing: national and local policy and strategy better reflecting the needs of our people, communities and country

Leading the Voice: a more empowered, skilled and engaged learning community, stimulating and participating in healthy debate and dialogue.

Leading Transformation: a stronger agent of change and collective action, realising our leadership and transformational potential

Leading Campaigns: producing, influencing, using research and evidence to stimulate new agendas and new policy

Practice Development

Learning Community: growing and enhancing dynamic voluntary sector network

Learning Intelligence: improve knowledge, information and data for and about voluntary sector adult education

Learning Excellence: increase quality and excellence in voluntary sector adult education practice

Learning Choice: enhance the range and reach of voluntary sector adult education provision, designed to meet need and raise equality

Learning Value: improve on demonstrating the outcomes and impacts leading to increased sustainability of voluntary sector adult education provision

Strategic Development

Dynamic Business: build a sustainable asset based community of learning organisations, associates and consultants and specialists.

Dynamic Thinking: forward thinking - stay small, think big, reach far, sharp and sustainable, engage specialists from the central core.

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