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 Clydesider • Clydesider News
FFImage-1 A Big Night Oot for a Big Cause By Todd Sharkey A local mother and daughter put the fun into fundraising with their annual charity Big Night Oot last week. The Flutterby FUNdraisers returned to the Erskine Hotel decked in their finest clothes, to laugh, dance and raise money for medical research into a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Clydesider • Community
Champion Gardener Faced with barriers and adversity in life, we sometimes chose the option of hiding and avoiding. Not Cameron Russell. Clydesider • Community
BlueTrianglecookbook Recipes for Living A cook book created by people who had been homeless aims to encourage healthier eating and improve cooking skills. Clydesider • Community
Faifley Rocks! Local school kids, volunteers and students from Glasgow University, joined archaeologist Kenny Brophy and his team to carry out a community excavation in Auchnacraig woods, Faifley this summer. They were in search of prehistoric rock art which can be found on the stones and boulders buried in the hi Clydesider • Community