Café Stork was established in February 2016 and is held in Parkhead Congregational Church for new or expecting parents, grandparents or parents with new-born babies. We identified this need as there are services available to parents once they have had a child but a gap in services that help prepare during pregnancy. The idea behind … More 🐦🤰 Café Stork 👶🍼
Next Monday (3rd July) Dalmarnock Summer Club returns for it’s second year. Here’s a blog post about how it came to be and why it’s so important: A legacy of our community’s successful Family Meal & Homework Club has been the establishment of the Summer Club at Dalmarnock Primary School. At sign up day a … More 🌞 Dalmarnock Summer Club! 🌞
Last week, 97 people attended our Family Meal & Homework Club in Bridgeton Community Learning Campus, so we thought it’s about time we wrote a wee bit about it. The Family Meal & Homework (FMHC) format is simple. The whole family are welcomed in as they arrive straight from school. Parents and guardians have the … More Family Meal & Homework Club
Following our initial event as part of To Absent Friends week, we came to the conclusion that smaller scale more regular meetings would be most appropriate for our work around death and loss at this stage. We decided to loosely adopt the ‘death cafe’ model which is a group directed discussion of death with particular … More 🍞 The Pan Breid Cafe 🍞
The approach adopted by Thriving Places in Parkhead, Dalmarnock & Camlachie is based on the idea that the services that we deliver are 50% about the delivery itself and the immediate impact that these activities have and the other 50% is about listening. Throughout the activities that we facilitate and deliver we strive to create … More 🌷 Life, Loss, Bereavement & Grief 🌷
Every Wednesday 12:30 – 3pm G31 Centre, Barrowfield On 17th December 2014 Thriving Places in Parkhead, Dalmarnock & Camlachie established our first Tea Dance at the G31 Centre in Barrowfield alongside our host organisation West of Scotland Housing Association. The Tea Dance was started up to help bring the community together in a safe and … More 💃 Strictly Come Tea Dancing ☕
On Thursday 4th February 2016 Parkhead Congregational Church was filled with the upbeat sound of jazz music! We welcomed Brass Jaw and Byres Road Big Band to Parkhead for two concerts – one an interactive Jazz experience for local children in the afternoon and the other a concert open to all in the evening. Interactive … More 🎷 Getting Jazzy With It 🎺
This blog has been created by the Thriving Places Parkhead, Dalmarnock & Camlachie team so that we can write about the work we are doing across the community. We hope to update this as regularly as possible so that local people and partners are fully informed and can get involved. Thriving Places is a Glasgow … More Welcome To Our Blog
