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An annual highlight of the Access to Industry calendar, our Certificate Ceremony 2025 took place on Tuesday 24 June in St Cecilia’s Hall. It brought together a jubilant crowd to celebrate the students from across our various courses, classes and groups who have achieved this year.

For our 24/25 year, we awarded 267 certificates to 213 students (this includes students awarded under more than one category). The courses awarded were: Digital Media; Access Photography; Access Data; Creative Writing; Photo Arts Group Empowerment (PAGE), Scottish Stonemasons’ Marks Project, as well as our various Community College classes and qualifications.

We were also thrilled to award Volunteer of the Year to a volunteering mentor; Partner of the Year to Sacro; The Angus Whyte Award (for personal achievement) to Jamie Scanlon, and a 25th Anniversary Special Award to Jackie Doody for an incredible 25 years of support volunteering as a Board Member.

Adele Hill and Sally McGreevy, Access to Industry’s Co-Chief Executives, said:
‘What a wonderful celebration our Certificate Ceremony 2025 was! We were thrilled to award our amazing students’ achievements, again in the beautiful surrounds of our valued partner, St Cecilia’s Hall. This, our 25th anniversary year, has been an important one – it has seen us grow in size as an organisation to the biggest we’ve ever been, with the launch of new voluntary sector throughcare partnership, Upside. We hope that going forward we can support even more individuals, to get the training, accredited qualifications and support to turn their lives around for the better. A big congratulations and thank you to everyone who makes this happen – our hard-working students, brilliant tutors, and incredible staff.’