Story Circle Presenter & Workshop Facilitator – Ailsa Clark

Ailsa Clark – Founder of Inspiralba, Scotland
Day 2 Story Circle Presenter

Ailsa Clark of Inspiralba in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, joins Dr. Wendy Wong and Ellie Joseph, Mohawk Elder to share stories about our current direction of travel and how leading from curiosity helps to explore our differences together.

Born and raised in Argyll, Scotland with experience working locally, nationally, and in Australia and South Africa. Ailsa Clark founded Inspiralba in 2009, recognizing the passion and determination in rural communities and the significant hoops and bureaucracy people have to navigate. She has been able to bring experience from income generation, business, networking, and community development into practice through the inter-related strands of Inspiralba’s work; coordinating third sector delivery of employability opportunities with a focus on tailored person-centred support as well as provision of business support for social and community enterprises across Argyll and the Islands. She has also provided an advocacy role for rural social enterprise as well as access and progression routes for young people in the rural economy. Established www.ruralsehub.net in 2019 to support networking, collaboration, information, and learning resources for the rural social and community-led enterprise bringing experience and connections from across Europe and further afield.
https://www.inspiralba.org.uk/