Canal Clean-Up Words & Photos by Stephen Barbour During normal times myself and the Cubs from 6th Clydebank Scout group would end our term walking from our HQ in Dalmuir along the canal path picking up litter. At the end we’d get a chippy as a reward. During the first lockdown Clydesider Editor • Community
Golden Friendships - Our Story Sponsored Editorial Golden Friendships charity started with the aim to set up a karaoke group for our friends in the community with additional needs. Creating a safe and friendly environment was of utmost importance, it was the minimum our friends deserved. The first day my mother Agnes McLaren sat with Clydesider Editor • Community
Musical Youth Words by Jenny Watson Photos by Emma Latham, TCB Photography It will be a few years before we fully realise the impact this last year has had on our children but one local young man has been making a big impact himself. Mark Morrison, 15, from Alexandria spent much of Clydesider Editor • Community
Student Solutions By Aidan Macdonald The last 12 months have been a struggle for everyone. From those who work in the NHS to those who have had to shield. It really has been a year to forget. One group significantly impacted by the pandemic is young people. From the constant stop-start of Clydesider Editor • Covid-19
https://clydesider.org/2021/03/05/from-letting-to-living/ From Letting to Living by Amanda Eleftheriades-Sherry At the start of 2020 Maureen Cummings was an office manager at a Belvoire Letting Agency in the west end of Glasgow, a job she had enjoyed for the past 10 years. Then in March when Covid struck and Scotland, along with most of the world, went Clydesider Editor • Community
Frilled With Love By Amanda Eleftheriades Photos by Caroline Finn An Aladdin’s cave of frills, fabrics and wicker lies hidden in Faifley’s Skypoint Community Centre. It is here that local creative genius Alison Bell conjures up stunning wedding backdrops and light installations, the front-facing element of her social enterprise, Frill Factory. Clydesider Editor • Community
