Welcome Carolyn!
We recently welcomed Carolyn Cluness to the Midsteeple Quarter team, who joins us as our Community Engagement Worker. Carolyn has already been getting stuck in to lots of exciting projects, and we hope that you’ll see her at many future events - do feel free to say hello and have a chat!
You can find out more about Carolyn and her previous work below:
Hello! I’m Carolyn and I am the new Community Engagement Worker at Midsteeple Quarter - a very exciting opportunity!
I have a genuine interest and love for the town of Dumfries after studying Heritage, Tourism and Sustainability at the Crichton Campus in 2017-18. Since then I have lived on the Isle of Harris where I carried out a Community Engagement Placement through the Scotgrad work scheme. What an experience it was to live on such a remote and beautiful island! I worked with the small community of West Harris to set up community groups and events and create an archaeology interpretation project. After my year in Harris I became the Learning and Engagement Officer at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, a coastal town in the East Neuk of Fife. I enjoyed providing opportunities for children and young people to create arts and crafts based on the seaside to express how we can protect the sea against climate change and plastic pollution.
When the opportunity of working at the Midsteeple Quarter arose, I knew moving back to Dumfries was the next step for me. Creating new spaces for community benefit is so important, and now even more so with the global pandemic affecting all parts of our lives. I hope that community engagement through events, consultations and exhibitions can regenerate the high street as a hub for sustainable living, working and socialising.