Catch the Light
youth and community development consultancy

The impact you made through the Fairways to Learning Programmes you created were incredidly inspiring and engaged the most hard to reach young people

Delighted you continue to support young people, creating opportunities to help them flourish and 

Ian it was a pleasure getting to know you over the past 18 months as part of our podcast series. I know you have made a lasting impression on the lives of the young people who went through the Fairways to Learning Programme and I know you will continue to positively impact people's lives as you work with youth projects across Glasgow. You are truly one of life's gentlemen

Ian thank you for all your networking and the opportunities you have presented to our groups. It has been an absolute pleasure being on this journey with you. It is rare and becoming even rarer to come across individuals like yourself that have a real passion and commitment to help shape the life’s of young people. You have been a positive role model, and you have enlightened our children and young people. Keep shining your light

Many thanks Catch the Light for your stoic and valued work on the evaluation of the first three years of the Perthshire Youth Work Partnership.  Your efforts have well exceeded the evaluation brief and delivered much needed practical support with our delivery partners, making connections for the partnership at a national level, and identifying funding opportunities.  Reminding us of where the boundaries are for universal youth work has also kept us closer to the straight and narrow than we could have achieved alone.

Catch the light’s work was an important factor in providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence to extend the Universal Youth Wowrk Partnership agreement between the Gannochy Trust and Perth and Kinross Council. Their supportive manner in assisting external partners to provide information for their research has enabled us to continue further funding for Youth Work provision for the next two years across Perth and Kinross. Youth Work does matter and they showed it.

The Fairways to Learning Programme was impactfull and a testament to your hard work and dedication

The East End of Glasgow is all the better thanks to the legacy you've left there

A huge thank you Ian for everything you have done to connect the local community. Your ability to listen and design a programme which really changes lives and builds capacity has been inspiring to see. You are a change agent. I have loved working with you and know we will work together in the future

Thanks again to Tila and Ian for delivering such a great couple of sessions- the artists from the Culture Collective got so much from it and I think it really has boosted their confidence and understanding around evaluation and their ability to build it into their practice. It was exactly what we were needing, so huge thanks for that!

YDance had previously worked with Catch the Light on our large-scale participation project Free to Dance from 2008-2012.  Due to the level of attention, care, and passion that both Tila and Ian gave to the evaluation of the programme, as soon as we had another opportunity to work with an external evaluation company there was only one clear choice for us! Catch the Light really take the time to get to know the projects that they evaluate as well as the people who deliver them and who participate in them.  It feels like a true partnership working with Ian and Tila, they bring such a wealth of experience to each project and are always a friendly and supportive ear.  It’s a pleasure to work with Catch the Light.

Ian and I have crossed paths on several projects over the years and I think he is a great consultant to lead the two sessions on aspirations for the future with the young trainees. I also think that Catch the Light's expertise and depth of experience in the field of youth and community development and strategy work could be really useful for supporting the social enterprise vision moving forward. I know that the trainees will enjoy working with Catch the Light.