My friend Alan Rea, who has died aged 76 of cancer, was an educationist in north-east Scotland whose work on adult education with the Workers’ Educational Association led to the creation of a number of valuable community-based projects aimed at helping disadvantaged people.
His most notable contributions to the WEA began in 1990, when he became tutor-organiser of its north Scotland district, stretching from Inverness to Dundee. Over the ensuing years his ideas and initiatives added hugely to the organisation’s development in Scotland.
