Helensburgh Community Hub Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 12 November 2024
Back to Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group — 12 November 2024 and its agenda
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Helensburgh Community Hub – CPG update November 2024 (Feedback above from a survey conducted in summer 2024) The Hub has now been operating for three years under an initial business plan written in 2020 to secure a community buyout of the building. We will be doing stakeholder and wider community engagement in early 2025 to inform our next 3-5 year plan and continue growing this community-owned asset. Highlights from the first three years of the Hub’s operation: - Around 300 people access services, activities and groups in the Hub every week - We have 36 active volunteers who support the Hub through the Book Nook, gardening, running wellbeing and crafting sessions and the management of the organisation - Approximately 40-50 hours of volunteering are carried out by Hub volunteers every week - 231 children aged 0-5 have registered with our Dolly Parton Imagination Library to receive free books every month - Almost £11,000 was generated through book sales in our Book Nook last year - Our events have ranged from coffee mornings and family fun days to a Demystifiying Death Week talk, international food festival, volunteer recruitment day and other health and wellbeing events.
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- We are very proud of our collaborations, especially with H&L Carers Centre, Jean’s Bothy and Hill House on the Helensburgh Book Festival, with Plastic Free Helensburgh and Helensburgh Litter Pickers for regular beach cleans, and with Visiting Friends on the now annual Volunteer Week Scotland celebration. - We were chosen as one of ten organisations across Scotland to launch the SCVO #essentialsector campaign in November 2023 - We host four community organisations within the Hub: Key Housing, A&B Citizens Advice, H&L Foodbank and A&B Rape Crisis Wellbeing activities in the Hub this autumn: - Date for your diary for 2025: Helensburgh Book Festival will be on Friday 28-Sunday 30 March Development Manager Gill Simpson 01436 678088 / 07498 528747 manager@helensburghcommunityhub.org.uk Helensburgh Community Hub Registered Company SC645409 Registered Charity SC05045