From 1st September I will be holding 8 surgeries a month as follows, excluding public and school holidays:

First Saturday of each month:

Arden Primary School – 10.00am – 11.00am

Nitshill Primary School – 11:15am – 12:15pm

Third Saturday of each month:

Househillmuir Primary School – 10.00am – 11.00am

Leithland Community Centre – 11:15am – 12:15pm

First Monday of each month:

Crookston Bowling Club – 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Pollok Community Centre – 6.15pm – 7.15pm

Third Monday of each month:

The Wedge – 5.00pm – 6.00pm

St. Angela’s Primary School 6.15pm – 7.15pm

You can contact Cllr. Duffy on 287 2000 or email: patricia.duffy.councillors.glasgow.gov.uk

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glasgow saddles up for BIKE WEEK

The theme this year is ‘cycling - the everyday sport’, which links the sporting aspect of cycling, and the convenience of cycling as a transport choice, especially during the summer months.

The Council’s Land and Environmental Services have organised a number of great activities to enable people to have fun, get fit and feel free on their bikes. 

Events include charity and fun guided cycle rides, information days and free bike health check clinics throughout the week, culminating in a fun 'Try Cycling' event as the Company of Cyclists bring a range of conventional and more specialised bikes for every one of all ages to test in George Square on Sunday 24 June from 11am.

As part of Bike Week, pupils from Bellahouston Academy, Whitehill Secondary, St Mungo's and Bannerman High Schools are running their own events including cycling the Pollok Park Mountain Bike trails and Bellahouston Cycle track as well as sponsored bike rides along Glasgow's traffic free cycle network.

Councillor Ruth Simpson, Executive Member for Land and Environmental Services, said: "We want to see many more Glaswegians get on their bikes and work their way to a healthier and less congested city.  This is a great opportunity for our citizens to come and try for themselves a selection of cycles and use them in a safe, supported environment."

For the full list of events visit http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/GettingAround/Cycling/bikeweek2007.htm

More information: http://www.bikeweek.org.uk/

Anyone can run a Big Draw event – large organisations, small community groups or keen individuals. All we ask is that drawing is the main focus and that the Big Draw logo appears on all promotional materials. Registration is now open and they hope you will join in. Please start now by entering your contact details on their free online database www.thebigdraw.org. Every organiser who registers receives a free copy of the Drawing Inspiration Awards book, illustrating last year’s winning projects, and a CD of practical strategies and publicity materials. These are packed with inspiring ideas and show how organisers have used limited resources and unlimited imaginations to get everyone drawing. If you apply (successfully) for a £500 Drawing Inspiration Award after your event, you could feature in the next book!

The main focus of the event is mid-October (Big Draw Day is Saturday 13), but you can run events any time in October. With competing pressures on calendars, their themes are broad, allowing links with Family Learning Week, Black History Month or Apple Day. Visit www.thebigdraw.org to find out more

WHAT IS IT?
Priesthill Volunteers and Disabled People is a small project based on the south side of Glasgow that provides social support to local adults who are isolated because of a learning disability, a physical impairment or a combination of both.

We provide volunteer befrienders and offer group activities to help promote community integration and combat the loneliness often experienced by disabled people.

Usually, we have about 40-45 people using our services, which are provided by approximately 30 volunteers.

ACTIVITIES

The range of activities that we offer is as diverse and varied as the people who are involved with the project.

Although nights out at the theatre, shopping trips and going to the cinema remain firm favourites, we have had groups go paint-balling, people involved in pigeon fancying and a night out at a comedy club at the Edinburgh Festival!

TRAINING

We are always recruiting new volunteers and provide a short induction-training programme, which covers subjects like:

-befriending,
-boundaries,
-basic disability awareness and
-confidentiality.

We also offer additional training that volunteers might find useful like managing epilepsy and visual impairment awareness training.

For more information, please contact

Project Coordinator	Maureen Bowers
Project Support Worker	Maureen Brennan
Project Administrator	Julie Fulton

Priesthill Volunteers and Disabled People
20 Dunside Drive
Priesthill
Glasgow
G53 6RY

Telephone (0141) 876-0708
Fax (0141) 876-0721
Email priesthill@volunteerglasgow.org

Pollok Young Persons Project welcome other agencies to hire our people carrier.

Costs include: 80p a mile and an affiliation fee of ₤20.00.

Please note that drivers are required to be MIDAS trained as a community transport regulation.

Please contact the PYPP direct on 0141 876 4369 for further details and bookings.

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Please visit our site at www.pypp.co.uk for information about the Pollok Young Persons Project.

 

If you are a voluntary agency operating in Glasgow then we can offer a free interpreter service in the following  languages :

• Amharic
• Arabic
• Azerbaijani
• Burundi
• Dari
• Farsi
• French
• Harari
• Kurdish
• Orimonga,
• Pashtu,
• Russian,
• Sinhalese
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Tamil
• Tigrgigna
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

About us: we are trainee interpreters - or have recently completed training - with Glasgow Translation and Interpreting Service (GTIS), part of GCC, with funding from the ATLAS/EQUAL partnership and the EU.

We're finishing the theory part of our Cardonald College Course and now we need to practice and apply what we have studied.  We're asylum seekers so we can’t work for money, but we want to work voluntarily.....

How to get your free interpreter(s)?  Immediately state that you want an ATLAS Volunteer interpreter (because the GTIS mostly offers paid interpreters), phone Katrina or Bill on 0141 343 0019 or fax 334 7276, or contact us at the GTIS, Napiershall Street Centre, 39 Napiershall St, Glasgow G20 6EZ

The Greater Pollok Portal is a resource for the local community to use to communicate, promote activities, discuss issues and
publish notices, information, etc. to the rest of the community.

Anyone can post information to the portal - just sign up for an 'account' (takes less than a minure) and away you go. Or perhaps you're a little intimidated by the technology and would like a little help?

 

 

Every Thursday the portal webmaster will be at Pollok Library - temporarily housed in the Wedge - from 4 to 6pm. Any questions about how to publish information about your community group or announce an event, etc. can be handled there and then. If needed we can arrange for more support sessions at other times and places.

You can write up to five true stories about any experience in your life and each one will be featured on Toowrite.com for the world to read.

It’s free to enter and several times a year they’ll give away £1,000 for the best story. The deadline for the first competition is midday on Thursday, April 5, 2007. Entries must be written in the first person and be previously unpublished.

More information: http://www.toowrite.com

The WedgeThe Pollok Library opened its doors again early in March after moving across the road into The Wedge.

The opening times are as normal and all services are available again.

New signage will appear soon on the roads around The Wedge to help