IMG_0011 Community Links Scotland Sponsored Editorial As a local Clydebank-based community regeneration charity, we have been supporting the West Dunbartonshire community for 23 years. We primarily work with community-led Housing Associations to develop and deliver projects that support their tenants who are most vulnerable to social isolation and financial hardship, and we support a Clydesider Editor • Issue 32
IMG_6120 Pride of Place Words by Amanda Eleftheriades Photos by Caroline Finn What makes you proud of your hometown? At the start of the year, we put this question to a group of Bankies and provided a variety of creative opportunities for them to share their thoughts. Together they remembered the town’s proud Clydesider Editor • Activism
SMM2025 Denny Brothers - draughtsmen & women outing c1950 Denny Social Words by Annie Jordan Photos by Jordan Stevens & courtesy of Scottish Maritime Museum If you have never visited the Denny Tank in Dumbarton, it is high time you did! There is something for everyone and the price could not be better at the moment: a paying adult (£5 full Clydesider Editor • Heritage
image9 My Journey from Sri Lanka to Scotland: A Dream Seven Years in the Making By Suhaila For seven years, I waited. Not just waited, but held my breath—hoping, wondering, fearing. Every decision I made in Sri Lanka felt like a question mark. Should I buy these school textbooks? Should I enroll in this course? Should I just do what I want here? Or Clydesider Editor • Issue 32
Pg 11 OKFP The Wee Chatty Café Sponsored Editorial Out for a walk or a cycle and looking for a pit stop to rest weary legs and refuel – then check out the Wee Chatty Café in Old Kilpatrick. The brightly painted shipping container beside the Saltings is hard to miss and there is always a friendly smile Clydesider Editor • Issue 32
STEPHEN-3 Some Heroes Wear Lab Coats By Emily Fraser Not all environmental activists stand on a protest line – some of them stand in front of a school class. Vale of Leven Academy hero Stephen Halkett mixes all his favourite elements for his latest experiment, a kids’ comedy show on fighting climate change. In ‘Save The Planet’ Clydesider Editor • Education
