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Here’s what’s inside the August issue of the Key.


Breaking news: tenant lands full-time BBC job


Stay safe at home....................p4 Jobs and training......................p6


Get involved..............................p8


BRIGHT FUTURE: Selcuk Colakoglu and fellow GHA tenant Deborah Laurie, who also took part in the course at BBC Scotland.


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Garden revamp.......................p10 Improvement work...............p11


TENANT has landed a full-time job with the BBC after doing a course GHA helped set up.


Selcuk Colakoglu, from Castlemilk, took part in a six-month training course set up by GHA and media training experts Boost Employability, who work from within BBC Scotland.


He learned about broadcast journalism, writing and research, as well as audio, digital video shooting, editing and social media.


Selcuk, 30, one of the first people to complete the course, is now working full- time as a production runner with the BBC. He said: “I read about the course in the Key and applied.


Your letters...............................p12 Star photo.................................p13 Prize sudoku.............................p14 Win an iPAD2...........................p14


“The best things about it were the people I met and the opportunities it led me to. “Seeing the set of Mrs Brown’s Boys and


River City was fun too. “Guest speakers on the course were


really interesting. I like hearing how people got their first break – and they had some brilliant stories. “To work in the media you need to be able


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to talk to people from different walks of life. Qualifications don’t count for much if you can’t hold a conversation with a stranger. “If other tenants are interested in working in the media I’d tell them to go for it!” GHA Chair Bernadette Hewitt said:


“We have a lot of talent out there in our communities and I hope as many people as possible apply.”


“If tenants are interested in working in the media I’d tell them to go for it!”


You don’t need any qualifications to apply


for the course – just bags of enthusiasm. You’ll get training two days a week for six months at BBC Scotland in Glasgow. The next course starts in September. If you’re over 18 and live in a GHA home, email info@boostemployability.org.uk or phone 07595 372 085 for an application form. You should return the form by 7 September.


The Glasgow Housing Association Limited is a not-for-profit housing association: registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 No. 2572R(S); recognised by HM Revenue and Customs as a Scottish Charity No. SC034054; registered social landlord No. 317 with the Scottish Housing Regulator under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010. Registered office: Wheatley House, 25 Cochrane Street, Glasgow G1 1HL.


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