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Lemon Tree Hotels diversity Experience

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Glasgow Kelvin College welcomed Ms Aradhana Lal, Vice President - Brand, Communications & Sustainability Initiatives at Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd., who was invited to speak at this year’s Scottish Tourism Conference on the Lemon Tree Hotels diversity experience.

Lemon Tree is India’s third largest hotel chain operating 80 hotels in 48 destinations with 8,000 rooms and over 8,000 employees. The hotel group is a global leader in the training and employment of people with additional support needs.

A long-time international partner of the College, Aradhana Lal contributed her knowledge and experience to a pilot training programme, funded by UKIERI, to be run by Glasgow Kelvin College which will use the Lemon Tree Hotels inclusion initiative as a model of best practice.  The initiative provides paid training and employment opportunities in the hospitality sector for people with additional support needs.

At the conference, she outlined the benefits of this model to the employer organisation, the trainees, other employees and to society as a whole.

For the full story see HERE.

Sustainable Activities

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Next week, don’t miss out our FREE Dr Bike sessions at Glasgow Kelvin College

Our Dr Bike sessions are back next week!

As per usual, these sessions will provide students, staff and the local communities with the opportunity to get a FREE safety checks on their bikes by skilled mechanics.

  • Tuesday 17th March – West-End campus – 11–1, near the cycle shelter - in collaboration with Lambhill Stables – more info here
  • Wednesday 18th March – Springburn campus – 11.30–1.30, near the cycle shelter - in collaboration with Bike for Good – more info here

More sessions will take place on the other campuses in May 2020.

Everyone welcome!

To get more information, follow us on Twitter @GkcSustain and on Facebook @sustainGKC.

 

Let’s be active at GKC!

Due to the success of our previous Social Ride and Health Walk, we decided to run more of those activities in March!

Join us on Monday 23rd March at 12pm at Springburn campus to take part in our Health Walk or to join our fun Social Ride.

A lunch and some refreshments will be provided from 1pm at the Velocity Cycle Hub and will be offered to all the participants and to everyone who cycled or walked to the College!

Look forward to seeing you all!

W/A Community Cooking Class

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Meet the new EEC WA Community Cooking Class group.

The group has now been running for a few weeks and is taught by Tutor Marie Claire and assistant Anna and have all been brought together through Community Connector Thriving Places links with Sharon Keenan / Wider Access and Community Engagement partnerships.

The group are all really enjoying engaging in life long learning in new skills and forming new friendships each week.

Joining the group has also enabled the participants to overcome various barriers to participation and increased confidence and self esteem.

ESOL’s Green Week Involvement

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Last week we told you about ESOL National 5 Stage 1 students running a stall at Springburn, where they offered free vegan biscuits and asked students to complete questionnaires on going “green”.

Well these students also created posters for the week, which we have a few samples of below and on Thursday the 5th of March they interviewed the Principal and the Students’ Association President, using the same questionnaire.

These activities were part of their engaging class project.

Be Active And Safety Checks

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REMINDER - Next FREE Dr Bike sessions at Glasgow Kelvin College

Our Dr Bike sessions are back this March!

As per usual, these sessions will provide students, staff and the local communities with the opportunity to get a FREE safety checks on their bikes by skilled mechanics.

  • Tuesday 17th March – West-End campus – 11–1, near the cycle shelter - in collaboration with Lambhill Stables – more info here
  • Wednesday 18th March – Springburn campus – 11.30–1.30, near the cycle shelter - in collaboration with Bike for Good – more info here

More sessions will take place on the other campuses in May 2020.

Everyone welcome!

To get more information, follow us on Twitter @GkcSustain and on Facebook @sustainGKC.

Let’s be active at GKC!

Due to the success of our previous Social Ride and Health Walk, we decided to run more of those activities in March!

Join us on Monday 23rd March at 12pm at Springburn campus to take part in our Health Walk or to join our fun Social Ride.

A lunch and some refreshments will be provided from 1pm at the Velocity Cycle Hub and will be offered to all the participants and to everyone who cycled or walked to the College!

Look forward to seeing you all!