Tag: Literacy & Numeracy

ALN Tutors

The Library’s Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALN) project is looking for volunteer tutors to support women to develop their literacy and numeracy skills, in group and one to one sessions.

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One Small Step for women across Scotland

Over 120 women were inspired to take One Small Step and participate in our one day conference at the Mitchell Library on Tuesday 23rd March 2010. Delegates of all ages and backgrounds came from across Scotland, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Alloa, Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire, Fife and Stirling and participated in our day of talks [...]

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Job Vacancies

The deadline for applications for both posts has now passed.

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One Small Step

Women’s Walking Event: Inspiring and engaging culturally diverse women into walking.

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Learning about IWD: Session 2

Second of 2 learning sessions celebrating International Women’s Day at the Women’s Library with the ALN team.

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Learning about International Women’s Day

Come along to our learning event to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Women’s Library with the ALN team. (First of 2 sessions)

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GWL Annual Report 2008-9

Our annual report for 2008-2009 is now available to download.

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Masks at AYW

The Aspiring Young Women (AYW) group have been considering times when they have worn a mask to cover up their true emotions. We discussed how situations make us feel and how much of our true selves we are willing to share. This brought up issues of low self-confidence in situations such as first day at [...]

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Aspiring Young Women

The Adult Literacy and Numeracy Team are delighted to be working with the young women in Drumchapel again. Our long term literacies support has gone down a storm and the girls have done some fantastic work in the past month.

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ALN December Update

We have a couple of new projects starting in the New Year. We are launching a Reading Group which will be open to all women who want to improve their reading skills. Secondly, we are very lucky to have Joanna Crawford, a Community Development student on board with us for a year. Joanna and I [...]

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