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Possilpark Community Map
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HANGOUTS
Possilpark Community Map
Between the ages of 13 & 15
between the ages of 9 & 12
SOME OF THE ISSUES IDENTIFIED BY COMMUNITY MEMBERS
COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS, LEADERS, RESOURCES, AND ASSETS
I took to the streets and asked: What are Possilpark's problems?
Drugs
Alcohol
Violence
Poor housing
Vandalism
"nearest high schools are too far away"
"brothers bar fights spill out into the street and wake me up"
"some of the derelict houses can't be knocked down because they're listed red sandstone buildings, and they just look bad"
"there's not much to do"
"It gets a bad rep"
"youth hangout"
"fire hydrant's always broken in the summer and causes problems"
"people drink here"
"underagers asking for jump-ins"
Jill MacKay
Chief Executive: North United Communities.
"My close door has been kicked in"
"There's always a line outside the pharmacy on Monday morning for junkies to get their methadone!"
Ann Lawrence
Project Manager of Young People's Futures
SOME "POSITIVE POSSILPARK" IDENTIFIED BY COMMUNITY MEMBERS
Saracen Cross
I took to the streets and asked: What are the good bits of Possilpark?
Bob Doris, Member of Scottish Parliament for the constituency, Scottish Nationalist Party elected 2016
Possilpoint Community Centre
"getting to town is easy"
"primary schools are close by to the main street"
Saracen Street
there's clubs for the kids to go to"
what goes on here??
"christmas light switch on"
"heart of the community"
"at the centre"
"too many bookies"
"do you remember bennetts?"
"wee events like the gala day"
Familiar face? Alistair Mitchell works for Thriving Places in Ruchill and Possilpark! He is a community connector and through social media he connects different organisations and people around Possilpark who can mutually benefit each other! Kieran Renshaw who is a student of BA Community Development! took over his social media last year when Alistair went on holiday to propose to his girlfriend. He took over Alistair's FB page and pasted his photo in so that community members would know he was taking over.
- Managed by Glasgow Life on behalf of the city council
- Opened in 1981
- Office space rented by organisation Young Peoples Futures as a base of operations
- Part of the centre operated by the DEN (Developing Everyone's Needs) which focus a lot on employment, teaching english to other languages (ESOL) and they run a community cafe