Annual Review 2011/12 - Glasgow Life

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Glasgow Life Annual Review 2011/12 21 The work we do in our communities is critical to everything we do. Our teams are passionate about providing positive opportunities in people’s lives – and they work across Glasgow, with partner agencies, to effect lasting change. Our community facilities provide good quality, flexible spaces where staff can interact and support individuals and communities to develop and take part in everything from sport and physical activity to bingo. In 2011/12 there were more than 1.3 million recorded attendances across the City, a 4% increase compared to the previous year. 1.3M+ ATTENDANCES AT COMMUNITY FACILITIES Penilee Community Centre, in partnership with Penilee Advisory Committee refurbished the centre’s community gym following extensive consultation with users and non-users of the facility. Penilee gym continues to increase its usage and many members had never used a gym before. There are now more than 2,200 members of the gym. At Barmulloch Community Centre, partnership work between Glasgow Life and Project Ability led to the Disability After School Club establishing the centre as the base for an innovative arts project. Glasgow Arts worked with young people in the area to create a series of large perspex suncatchers which are now sited in the local community as part of the Barmulloch Arts Trail. Pollok Community Centre’s Advisory Committee worked in partnership with Glasgow Life to refurbish the centre’s community café kitchen, resulting in improved working conditions and allowing the operator to offer a wider range of healthy meals and snacks for the community. Getting Real About Alcohol ‘N’ Drugs held its fifth annual city wide programme of themed events dedicated to encouraging communities to get involved in tackling alcohol and drug issues. Glasgow Life supported the event, held at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall and a broad range of partners including Glasgow Community and Safety Services, Glasgow Council on Alcohol, South Sector NHS Health Improvement Team, Ultimate Soccer, and Castlemilk Domestic Abuse Project delivered three programmes to 660 people. Castlemilk, Penilee and Ruchill Community Centres hosted popular and resonant performances of the play Truant by the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS). A joined up approach from arts and youth staff in Glasgow Communities and education staff at local schools, targeted young people and the positive feedback from the project has resulted in future partnership work with NTS. Count Me In, a play about democracy and participation in society, will tour community centres in September 2012. Glasgow Arts supported drama participants from ADD-art, a community drama group for people recovering from the misuse of alcohol. They performed a series of popular new sketches at Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival at The Mitchell Library and Platform at the Bridge in March 2012. For ten weeks prior to the event, participants from three individual recovery projects worked with a drama tutor or writer once a week to create and present their own work during the festival. The Calton Boys Group was established in 2010 as part of a Glasgow Life Streetwork initiative to reduce anti-social behaviour in the Calton area. The boys were identified via Streetwork and were offered a position in the East End Football League organised by the HUB in Wellhouse. They excelled in the league and expressed a desire to give something back to their community. During 2011/12 the group started training for their coaching badges, raised funds for various activities including a Scotland v Ireland international rugby league match at Scotstoun Stadium and secured more than £1,000 through fundraising.
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