Meet the team

Your Kingsway Community Connections team is available to support you.
We are guided by your needs, ideas and aspirations.
We are also committed to maintaining a safe and welcome space for the whole community.

Lainy Bedingfield

Managing Director

Lainy has led KCC since 2021. With a BA in Community Development, she brings values-driven leadership rooted in care and collaboration. She advocates for equity and inclusion locally and nationally, ensuring that lived experience is seen as expertise.

Managing Director

Administrator & Finance Officer

Stephanie Coyle

Administrator & Finance Officer

Stephanie joined in 2021 with 16 years of hospitality experience. She now supports financial management and daily operations, helping make KCC a welcoming, inclusive space.

Joe McShannon

Programme & Development Coordinator

Joe joined in 2023 and leads our programme development. With a background in community education and advocacy, Joe ensures our PG&W model remains central to everything we do.

Programme & Development Coordinator

Jamie O'Neill

Community Development Worker

A lifelong Kingsway resident, Jamie brings lived experience and deep local knowledge. He supports youth work and relationship-based, trauma-informed approaches.

Community Development Worker

Welfare Advice & Support Worker

Paul Harrison

Welfare Advice & Support Worker

Paul offers trusted guidance on housing, benefits, and any other welfare related issues. He helps people feel informed and in control and often provides a first step to wider community engagement.

Sessional Staff

We couldn’t deliver our work without the dedication of our exceptional sessional staff, whose care and consistency make so much possible. Our youth work programme was supported by a great team of Youth Workers, each bringing their own energy, creativity and commitment to the young people they work with. Our Community Development Gardener, keeps the garden thriving and offers guidance and encouragement to plot holders and residents alike, helping them grow with confidence.

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Contact

Kingsway Community Connections,
50 Kingsway Court, Glasgow, G14 9SR

Centre Opening Times;
Monday to Thursday: 8am – 4pm
Friday: 10am – 2pm

Office Opening Times;
Monday to Thursday: 10am – 4pm
Friday: 10am – 2pm