Director
Amanda Eleftheriades-Sherry – founder of Clydesider Creative Ltd and editor of Clydesider magazine. Amanda is a journalist by trade, passionate about engaging others to share their stories – both individual and organisational. She moved from journalism to the third sector for +10 years, where she helped voluntary organisations secure over £1.5million of funding, developed participatory action research, wrote reports for varied audiences and set up a Big Lottery funded therapeutic training project with people in recovery. She also helped set up a community newspaper and is the author of ‘Drink & Drugs: A Culture of Excess?’
Community Engagement Worker
Jenny Watson has worked and volunteered in a community capacity for over 20 years. She started out volunteering with Clydesider in 2014 and became a permanent part of the team in January 2019 as our Community Engagement worker.
In 2014 Jenny was awarded the ‘Arts & Culture Champion’ Provost Civic Award for the work she carried out with a local creative arts committee. In her spare time Jenny can be found either travelling all over supporting her daughter in her dance endeavours or teaching herself, very slowly, how to make dance costumes.
Participatory Photography Facilitator + Freelance Photographer
Charlie Eleftheriades-Sherry is a professional photographer, budding writer and community activist. His photography covers a range of community events, conferences and campaigns as well as portrait and landscape work. He is the founder of Inclusive Images social enterprise which uses the medium of photography to share the stories of those whose voices are too often unheard.
Email: in*************@*****ok.com
Website: www.inclusiveimages.org
Facebook: @inclusiveimages.org
Digital Communications Worker
Harvey Smart is a graduate of film and television at Glasgow Clyde College. Specializing in documentary, since moving to West Dunbartonshire in 2021, he has become deeply interested in the history of the area, attempting to explore it through the medium, in order to bring to light stories and places of the area that are often forgotten, even by those who have lived here their entire lives.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBAxX6jThyx1N5bthyfLguQ
Heritage Lead
Kayleigh Hirst joined the Clydesider team in 2025 to lead on the ‘In Peace and Revolution’ heritage project. Her background is in communications and engagement and she’s worked for a number of national third sector organisations over the past 15 years. She’s been drawn to working in community heritage by the potential to uncover surprising, interesting or forgotten stories from the past, and working with people to find creative ways to keep them alive.
A Yorkshire native, Kayleigh has made Scotland her home and currently lives in Falkirk where in her spare time she enjoys persuading her lazy greyhound out for walks.
Community Media Lead
Kevin Monaghan has spent the last 15 years wrapped up in community projects, from Bankie Talk to Dumbarton Area Council on Alcohol.
He’s been with Clydesider since day one, designing the first 12 issues of Clydesider Magazine. Now he’s joined the team full-time, leading the way with the Clydesider TV project, bringing community stories to life on screen.
When he’s not behind the camera or editing videos, you’ll usually find him with a guitar in hand or wandering somewhere in Scotland — ideally not lost, but no promises.