https://clydesider.org/2021/09/23/raising-awareness/ Raising Awareness by Angela Clark As a parent you would do anything to protect your child, ensure they are fed, clothed, with a safe place to sleep. If that means leaving your country, friends and family behind to save their life, you would not hesitate. For people across the world this has Clydesider • Issue 17
BMX Drumry Bikers Issue 17 BMX Hopes Ride High In Drumry by Zanya McCartney “Riders ready, watch the gate,” the recorded voice warns. A line of eight youngsters perch on bicycles at a precarious angle, facing down the steep slope of a track on a sunny September evening. Their faces are focused, glimpsed through the oversized helmets which cover their heads Clydesider • Issue 17
https://clydesider.org/2021/06/01/carers-week-2021/ Make Caring Visible & Valued Sponsored Editorial Carers Week 2021 focuses on making caring visible and valued. There are thousands of unpaid carers in West Dunbartonshire providing essential care and support. It is likely you know someone supporting a family member, friend, or neighbour who lives with a disability, addiction, illness or who are frail Clydesider • Community
https://clydesider.org/2021/05/07/peer-support-and-me/ Peer Support and Me By Emily Fraser Something brilliant happens when a person with mental health challenges, who has spent a lot of time fearing or hearing that they are different, inadequate, or a problem, discovers that all their exact life experiences – the inner struggles they work hard to overcome and to live with Clydesider • Mental Health
https://clydesider.org/2021/05/05/a-book-and-two-tins-of-food/ A Book and Two Tins of Food Words & Photos by Sarah Ann Dillon The time: a Saturday at the beginning of lockdown. The place: my kitchen. I have always been a great lover of books and read every day. Something. A novel, a magazine article, a poem, the back of the cornflakes packet. Anything, you get Clydesider • Mental Health
Mental Health Arts Festival Launch Levengrove Park made the perfect setting for the launch of West Dunbartonshire's local programme for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. The annual arts festival which runs from May 3 - 23 aims to challenge preconceived ideas about mental health. This year's theme is 'Normality? Clydesider • Clydesider News
