Hello KPC Members and Supporters, Welcome to our July Newsletter. We have been excited to bring back our regular Tuesday lunches this month - you can now join us for two meals a week! We have also started working on our garden space with our volunteers. Our community members had a joyful sunny day with us visiting the Glasgow Science Centre. You can now visit Elizabeth Street Garden and see the beautiful mural that has recently been completed. We still need some help to finish up the garden. There are lots of upcoming events in August and September. We will keep you in the loop very soon for more details. The KPC Team |
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We got a new bike shelter stand to keep you dry on rainy days. |
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🍈 Community Kitchen Highlights 🍈 |
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Our community lunches are back! Great to see some old and new faces back with us on a Tuesday! We’ve been serving soups and salads with some sweet treats alongside. Some of our favourite dishes from the last month have been: Beetroot salad with yoghurt lemon dill tahini! Black eye bean soup with grilled onion salsa! Sayur Lodeh, an indonesian coconut curry! Coconut and lime cake! Thanks again to our team of amazing volunteers! |
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🤗 Community Wellbeing Highlights 🤗 |
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🧪 Glasgow Science Centre visit 🧪 |
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On 8th July, a group of our community members accompanied by Dylan and Rago from the Community Wellbeing and Participation Team visited the Glasgow Science Centre! We had a joyful day of exploration and learning, from building and racing Lego land yachts, to learning about the night sky at the planetarium, and of course looking around and interacting with the various exhibits. Most people in the group had not had an opportunity to visit the Centre before, and so it was a fun activity for adults and children alike. |
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🎲 Tuesday Board Games and Wellbeing Walks are back! 🎲 |
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The Tuesday community lunches relaunching have also meant the comeback of our Tuesday activities led by Kevin, our Community Mental Health Worker. So if you’d like to play some board games or join in for a light afternoon walk, KPC on Tuesdays is the place to be! And if there are other activities that you’d like to see on our programme – or maybe even organise? – please get in touch with our Community Events and Activities Coordinator, Dylan, at dylan@kinningparkcomplex.org! |
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🌿 Harvest Project - Garden 🌿 |
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We are excited to be working with volunteers and a local youth group to get the garden into shape. This week we started filling the planters with soil whilst tending to the plants we have been growing. IIf you would like to get involved in the garden email food@kinningparkcomplex.org for more iinfo or sign up as a volunteer at https://www.kinningparkcomplex.org/volunteer |
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🌱Garden Session Highlights🌱 |
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We’ve had two very productive gardening sessions in the final week of July! Firstly, we put together a plan where we swept and cleaned the garden space and then assembled two wheelbarrows. |
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We then moved all of our planters and started filling them in with compost and soil, preparing them for sowing. |
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We want to thank all our volunteers for helping us out and learning a bit more about gardening. |
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We will continue working on our garden - check out our social media for more future garden sessions and activities. |
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🖼️ Woven in Govan Exhibition 🖼️ |
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It has been almost a month since The 'Woven in Govan' exhibition opened in our building. The exhibition is still available to see until the end of August. You can find it on the first floor. Visiting hours are Monday to Friday between 10–6PM (8pm on Thursdays). Weekends check with members of staff. |
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🐶 We have a new addition to the team! 🐶 |
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Meet Winnie, she is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier that makes everyone smile with her big smile. She is our new companion for helping us do some Community Engagement. Look at her enjoying her first day at KPC. |
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On Monday 11th July 2022 we attended a meeting at Barclays Campus to discuss the amalgamation of Kinning Park Community Council with Tradeston and Kingston Community Council. Neither of these community councils have sat in the localities and this has become a barrier to applying for area partnership funding as well as collaboration across the local place plan neighbourhoods of Kingston/Tradeston, Kinning park/ Plantation/ Ibrox/ Cessnock. Over the coming months we will be engaging with local people to garner the appetite for the reinstatement of the community councils with nominations for community councillors and associate members. |
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Over the last few months BWSS! has been working with a group of members who want to restructure their aims and objectives creating a timeline of achievements and milestones for the next couple of years. The first milestone was the association's election of a new executive committee at their inaugural AGM in the KPC building. Over a hundred members came on the day to share their views and voice how they would like their association to take shape through the executive committee and steering groups elected. |
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💮 Elizabeth Street Garden 💮 |
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Over the last fortnight we have been painting, planting and having general clean ups to keep on top of the litter and dog fouling in Elizabeth Street garden. During this time spent in the garden we have engaged new volunteers and spoke about the future of the garden. This week work on the mural at the Park Bar was completed this week, some of the designs stirred up some controversy in certain circles. Though from the engagement with the community this week it seems local people and the Park Bar are happy with it. Well done to Laura at Yardworks SWG3 and Tragic the artist. We look forward to any future collaborative work we can do together. The garden is nearing completion and we still need volunteers to help us get it finished email volunteer@kinningparkcomplex.org |
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Monday 1st & 15th August
6–8pm Take One Action We're really excited to be hosting a 2-part writing workshop at KPC exploring how film criticism and personal writing can meet. All experience levels are welcome! Find out more: bit.ly/BeyondTheReview |
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Thursday 4th, 11th & 18th August
3.30–5.30pm
Stitch & Blether Embroidery Workshops with artist tsBeall. Learn basic embroidery as you work alongside artist tsBeall to stitch the words and stories of careworkers onto NHS uniforms. We will be embroidering words and phrases taken from interviews of careworkers during lockdown. Transcripts of stories will be available at each session to read. Come for a stitch, a blether, or both! All welcome, but spaces limited – we can accommodate 5–7 stitchers but as many bletherers as wish to come along. Part of an ongoing artwork, the burden of care, for Woven in Govan. Please be aware that some content may be upsetting, as dealing with topics of stress, illness/COVID, isolation, death. |
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Sunday, 11th September Harvest Festival Join us to celebrate the reopening of our community garden and the food we have been growing! A fun throwback to our Social Sundays featuring workshops, performers, music, and of course food – all ages welcome! |
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Sunday, 2nd October Paisley Road West Fest We will be joining in with the annual festivities and presenting all that the KPC and groups and organisations that we work with have to offer! |
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Saturday, 30th July
12-5pm Dandelion Workshop Fest As part of Dandelion, GalGael and Tenement Veg have created a garden behind the football pitch for folk in the community to sow, grow and share.
Join us to celebrate the growing season with FREE drop in to attend workshops, live music, local makers stalls and BBQ. |
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August - Fridays Creative Writing Workshops 14 weeks FREE Creative Writing workshops. STAGE is holding a series of 1h creative writing and theatre workshops in KPC on Fridays, starting in August. Both workshops are aimed, though not exclusively, at people who are recovering from mental health illness and require some creative focus in their lives. Week 1-10 process of creative writing - poetry, short fiction and writing a play Week 5-14 - theatre and stage production skills For more info contact: +44 (0)7479449454 scotlandineurope@gmail.com |
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Kinning Park Complex SCIO is a registered charity SC048399 |
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