Hillhead Area Partnership Community Budgeting distributed £10,000 between five community groups in Glasgow on the 21 April.
Eight local charities gathered at Albany Centre on Thursday to explain and argue their need for funding. Hillhead community divided £10,000 received by the government between the projects. The winner, Eiger Music, was awarded £1,840 to purchase drum equipment and a specialised laptop to extend the offer of free music tuition.
Camera operators: Emili Knutson & Lucie Jung
Anne Cumming, treasurer and violin tutor for Eiger Music, stressed the importance of their work. She said: “We work to give music tuition to individuals with financial barriers. We are teaching 18 to 20 participants weekly, and with the equipment we are asking for we can double or triple the number of participants.”
Flourish House, a charity aiming to help individuals with mental illness to regain purposeful lives, was awarded £2,540. Offering a programme of activities during Mental Health Awareness Week, they will provide awareness about mental health. Raymond McConnell, member of Flourish house, said:
“We are hoping to show [the community] that we are just people like everyone else. [The funding] is going to help us expand and bring the community in so they can begin to understand what mental illness is and the stigmatism attached to it. We are hoping to show them that we are just people like everyone else.”
Mark Langdon, local inhabitant and community learning and development-worker at Glasgow Life, attended the event to network. He said:
Raymond McConnell and Robyn Treadgold, members of Flourish house. Photograph: Emili Knutson
“It’s a nice feeling to know to know there is so much good stuff going on in the community and to see that they, the local charities, are being supported directly with resources that are desperately needed.” Langdon added: “I think it is just about making local links between people because sometimes you’ve been living in an area but you don’t know what’s going on in the next street.”
The Hillhead community budgeting event was one of 22 held across Glasgow during April, enabling local projects to seek funding of £10,000.
For more information, see: https://www.glasgowcpp.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=19222
