Environmental work

Over the past years we have been working with three local schools through their eco-committees: Quarrybrae, St.Marks and St.Michaels. We have carried out bulb planting at Beardmore Park, community garden at Cuthelton Terrace Sheltered Housing and our new plot at Westhorn Allotments. We recently held an eco event at Beardmore Park to bring the three schools together and the children were treated to a talk on recycling, snake display, bulb planting and were presented with a certificate for their work. Future work is planned through our allotment, a rooftop garden in Parkhead and a community garden in Bridgeton.

Intergenerational Project

The Intergenerational programme was introduced to bring young people and people together to increase dialogue between them and to address the negative perceptions held by both groups. There are few opportunities for these groups to meet and this can have the effect of creating an imbalance within communities through the lack of communication.

We have worked with local schools and have carried out a variety of fun workshops including video and audio and sharing of stories. We have also carried out joint visits to places of interest such as the Transport Museum, the People's Palace and the Scotland Street Museum. This provided the opportunityfor about things such as 'the past and future' in terms of the community. There has also been the opportunity for the sharing of skills: the young people demonstarted the Nintendo Wii and gave workshops to the older group on the use of mobile phones. The older group then demonstrated some of the traditional skills such as knitting.

Older people have also assisted us in club activities with the Happy Feet Line Dancers giving dance classes, The older group and young people took part in gardening activities together. There was also lots of opportunities for storytelling in terms of changes in the East End from its industrial past to the future regeneration . In effect, older people and young people are becoming 'both teachers and learners' as they share skills through play activities and informal learning opportunities.

Thanks to funding from Miss Agnes H Hunter's Trust and Scottish Community Foundation we will be able to continue this further and develop into other areas of the East End.