AMANDA BEECH BSc

A graduate of Staffordshire University, Amanda is also a graduate from a post-graduate course at the Heriot-Watt University School of the Built Environment, in Inclusive Environmental Access and Design. She has also been an advocate and trainer for Disability Solutions in North Staffordshire, as well as taking an active role in SCOPE. Since relocating to Ayrshire, she has become an active member of the South Ayrshire Access Panel who actively supporting the Council to broaden their policies and buildings towards social inclusion. More recently Amanda has gained a post-graduate certificate in Scots Law.

JIM BRYAN

Is a graduate of the post-graduate course at the Heriot-Watt University School of the Built Environment, in Inclusive Environmental Access and Design. Jim was diagnosed with MS twenty-three years ago.

Since then he has been an active member of the voluntary sector, consisting :-

• Jim, for the past four years, has been an active member of the East Ayrshire Access Panel (North District) serving as Chairman, where they play a key role within the local community in bringing inclusion on the main agenda for the East Ayrshire Council.

• Jim was Student Liaison for the first year of the Heriot-Watt University School of the Built Environment, in Inclusive Environmental Access and Design graduate certificate.

In recent months, while undertaking the graduate course assisted colleagues within this Company with several projects for the Forestry Commission and Open Space Access within the Scottish Countryside, as a Trainee Access Auditor. Jim lives in Kilmarnock.

We all have first hand experience of disability, the issues and everyday inconveniences of exclusion in our society.