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
https://clydesider.org/2020/12/01/christmas-knitters/ Christmas Knitters Local knitters have joined forces with Old Kilpatrick Food Parcels to add a little festive cheer to their Christmas deliveries. And when we heard the Dalmuir Knit & Natter group were looking for extra knitters to help make some festive toppers to pop on a Terry’s chocolate orange we Clydesider • Clydesider News
https://clydesider.org/2020/10/30/pumpkin-partnership/ Spooky Stories By Amanda Eleftheriades-Sherry At Clydesider we're usually in the business of delivering positive news stories and creativity across West Dunbartonshire. But this year we got into pumpkins! Here's how it all began.... During lockdown we set up a local Community Response Network which met weekly on Clydesider • Clydesider News
https://clydesider.org/2020/03/27/local-solutions-to-a-global-crisis/ Local Solutions to a Global Crisis By Amanda Eleftheriades-Sherry, Editor Local charities, social enterprises, businesses, faith groups and inspirational individuals are stepping up to support our communities through these difficult times. Clydesider will be sharing these stories over the coming weeks and months ahead. At a time when we are being bombarded with frightening news from Clydesider • Clydesider News
tree for website Creative Cafe Crafty Christmas on a Budget Our Christmas themed Creative Cafe event is on Saturday the 7th of December from 11am - 3pm in Alexandria C.E. Centre, Main Street, G83 0NU. Our theme is ‘Crafty Christmas on a Budget’ our hope is that everyone will leave with at least one Clydesider • Clydesider News
Focus on Change WD By Jenny Watson Photos by Robert Wilson Tackling poverty is a community effort in West Dunbartonshire. Yet much of this work gets little publicity. Community groups, charities, social enterprises, faith-based organisations and (extra)ordinary folk are busy working away to challenge the problem. Last year we ran a series of Clydesider • Clydesider News