Will Glendinning
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Will Glendinning
| office = Member of
Belfast City Council
| constituency = Lower Falls
| term_start = 15 May 1985
| term_end = 1987
| predecessor = District created
| successor = Fra McCann
| constituency1 = Belfast Area F
| term_start1 = 18 May 1977
| term_end1 = 15 May 1985
| predecessor1 = Thomas Murphy
| successor1 = District abolished
| office2 = Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for West Belfast
| term_start2 = 20 October 1982
| term_end2 = 1986
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Portadown, Northern Ireland
| death_date =
| party = Alliance Party
}}
Will Glendinning is a former Northern Irish politician.
Background
He was born in Portadown, the brother of Robin, and a great-grandchild of Robert Glendinning.John Stanley Bull, British and Irish dramatists since World War II, pp. 73–74 Glendinning attended Rockport School in Holywood, Co Down.{{cite web |title=Rockport School |url=http://www.rockportschool.com |publisher=Rockport.School.com |access-date=23 March 2023}}
Glendinning joined the Ulster Defence Regiment in the early 1970s and served in Armagh. In 1977, he was elected as an Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) councillor for Belfast Area F, which covered the Lower Falls, Donegall Road and Markets areas. He held his seat in 1981,[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/73-81lgbelfast.htm Local Government Elections 1973–1981: Belfast], Northern Ireland Elections and was also narrowly elected at the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election for West Belfast.[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cwb.htm West Belfast 1973–82], Northern Ireland Elections
"Area F" was abolished in 1985 but Glendinning won a council seat in the Lower Falls Electoral Area,[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/85-89lgbelfast.htm Local Government Elections 1985–1989: Belfast], Northern Ireland Elections, ark.ac.uk; Retrieved 19 February 2016. with his wife Pip succeeding in gaining a seat for APNI in the adjacent Upper Falls Area. He and his wife both resigned their council seats in 1987 due to the birth of their daughter.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}
He became the Chief Executive of the Community Relations Council, before becoming a consultant on "cultural diversity, community relations and transition from conflict" establishing the peace-building charity Diversity Challenges. He has served as Coordinator since 2002[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/victims/docs/healremember02.pdf The Report of the Healing Through Remembering Project], June 2002 Diversity Challenges worked with culturally specific groups including the Loyal Orders Bands, the GAA, and others to promote change to recognise the increasing cultural diversity."[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0321/1016671547637.html "Ex-Alliance man to polish Orange image"], Irish Times, 21 March 2002.
He was chairperson of the Northern Ireland Asscoation of Citizens Advice Bureaux in the 1990s. He also served on the board of Community Technical Aid. He served on the board and was chairperson of Newry and Mourne CAB until its merger with Down CAB
Thorufg Diversity Challenges. He is on the Erupopen Board of the International Coalition of the Sites of Conscience(https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/home/)
References
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| years = 1982–1986
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:People educated at Rockport School
Category:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland politicians
Category:Members of Belfast City Council
Category:Northern Ireland MPAs 1982–1986