Clydebank Can Sponsored Editorial Clydebank Can is a Community Links Scotland project, funded for two years by the Scottish Government’s Investing in Communities Fund. This new project aims to bring people together to create a more vibrant and socially and economically active Clydebank town centre. We believe that small scale community-led Clydesider Editor • Issue 15
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
Still Taking Steps In The Right Direction Sponsored Editorial Since the inception of Stepping Stones by a group of concerned local people in 1990 in a local manse in Clydebank, the charity has grown over the years to be a mainstay of mental health support for the local population across West Dunbartonshire. Stepping Stones employs 11 staff Clydesider Editor • Issue 15
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
DSC_0004 (2) Love, Family & Food Words and Photo by Jenny Watson What do you get if you take a pinch of a popular TV show, mix with a ladleful of social media and add the love of a local Nana? You get ‘Streetch Yer Kite’ - a wonderful Scottish cuisine cookbook by Margaret MacKinnon from Clydesider Editor • Uncategorised
