Helensburgh Community Hub Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 19 August 2025
Back to Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group — 19 August 2025 and its agenda
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Helensburgh Community Hub – CPG update August 2025 Helensburgh's first Pride event I am personally and deeply proud that Helensburgh Community Hub this year hosted Helensburgh's first Pride event. It was a successful, supportive and incredibly joyful day attended by around 100 people of all ages. In organising this event I was also personally drained by the experience of dealing with some exceptionally negative comment on social media that was factually inaccurate, misleading and deeply discriminatory. The overwhelming number of comments were positive but the negativity shown demonstrates why more work is needed to support the LGBTQ+ community both socially and in tackling discrimination and outdated and negative attitudes. So we plan to work with members of the LGBTQ+ community locally and within Argyll and Bute to provide more social and support activities as well as creating a bigger and better Pride event in 2026. We would therefore welcome support from, and engagement with, other agencies and organisations to make our community a better place for LGBTQ+ people. Helensburgh Repair Cafe launch A pram for a dog, two sewing machines, a cushion cover, and a table light were along the 14 different items that came in for repair at the first Helensburgh Repair Hub event at the end of June.
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The project is a collaboration between the Hub, Jean’s Bothy and ABCAN, and has approximately 20-30 committed volunteers, including one who has set up a bespoke admin system that will allow us to capture the climate impact of the project. The next Repair Hub event will be on Saturday 30 August from 10.30am-12pm at the Hub, and thereafter it will be on the last Saturday of the month. Welcome to Helensburgh event with Fun First We are delighted to be working with Fun First to host a Welcome to Helensburgh event on 23 August to provide information for families about events, activities, clubs and groups. Helensburgh was recently highlighted by travel company Travelawaits as one of the friendliest small towns in Scotland, partly because of the community spirit. They said: "There are a lot of community-led events organised by the locals for people from the town and visitors to enjoy. Local volunteers make this a great place to visit, which shows what their town means to them and how proud they are of the welcome they extend. There are lots of fantastic local organisations proving what a friendly bunch lives here." The Welcome to Helensburgh event, on 23rd August from 11am-2pm at Helensburgh Community Hub, will have plenty of free fun things for kids to do like glitter tattoos and badge making as well as tea, coffee and cake to keep people refreshed while chatting with representative from local clubs and groups.
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Development Manager Gill Simpson 01436 678088 / 07498 528747 manager@helensburghcommunityhub.org.uk Registered Company SC645409 Registered Charity SC05045.