https://clydesider.org/2021/11/30/family-of-trees/ Family of Trees Words and photos by Johnny Dale Trees are more like us than we think. As the Silver Birch says, “you call me the mother tree, tree of endurance and survival, tree of air and water, Betula Pendula, the lady of the woods - you call me many names.” As Birch Clydesider • Environment
https://clydesider.org/2021/11/24/funding-available-to-heat-homes/ Funding Available to Heat Homes Sponsored Editorial Home Energy Scotland With energy bills on the rise, visiting Home Energy Scotland online could really pay off. Check homeenergyscotland.org/warmer-winter to see if you could be eligible for Scottish Government-funded heating and insulation improvements to help make your home cosy in time for winter. Over 23, Clydesider • Issue 18
https://clydesider.org/2021/11/24/crafting-together/ Crafting Together Words & Photos by Caroline Finn A creative calm welcomes visitors to Crafting Together CIC’s new studio in Clydebank’s Titan Centre. Young makers’ eyes smile a greeting from behind their masks as they look up from their intricate work building sparkly angel bracelets. The studio walls are covered Clydesider • Creative
membership graphic Clydesider Membership As we near our seventh anniversary, we’re also making plans for Clydesider’s future. We want to keep the magazine free for all to enjoy for years to come, to do that we need your help. As a non-profit we have no shareholders or parent companies. We’re just Clydesider • Clydesider
clydesider More Than A Magazine - 5 Year Anniversay by Amanda Eleftheriades, Editor ‘If it bleeds, it leads’. This was the ethos of the media industry in 1996 when I started my first job as a local reporter in Dumbarton. Sadly, not too much had changed when I left it seven years later. Disillusioned by the industry’s growing Clydesider • Issue 17
choir socially distanced Singing In The Rain How does a choir stay connected when it can't sing together? This was the challenge Firecloud's Community Choir, affectionately named Big Happy Noise, faced at the start of last year's lockdown. With members coming from across West Dunbartonshire and further afield, the pandemic brought Clydesider • Issue 17
