There are less than 24 hours to make sure your local champions are in the running for Glasgow’s top community awards.
We need you to tell us of the unsung heroes living and working in the neighbourhoods of Langside, Battlefield, Carmunnock, King’s Park, Mount Florida, Simshill, Cathcart, Croftfoot and Castlemilk.
We’re looking to find examples of remarkable individuals, brilliant charities and groups, dedicated public service workers, youngsters who have shown extraordinary bravery, or senior citizens who have devoted decades to community aid.
Everyone is welcome to attend the free eighth awards ceremony in the second series of the campaign, which takes place at Castlemilk Community Centre, 121 Castlemilk Drive, on Thursday, June 24.
It’s a chance to meet nominees and representatives from the awards partners, Strathclyde Police, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Community Planning Partnership, Strathclyde Fire & Rescue and the Evening Times.
Six trophies will be handed out on the night, and winners from across the city will be invited to the Grand Final at the City Chambers in October when the overall winners are named.
Today we meet two groups of youngsters from Langside and Linn.
HOW TO ENTER
Apply online by visiting www.eveningtimes.co.uk and follow the ‘communities’ link or click on link below, call 0141 302 7310 or e-mail alison.martin@heraldandtimes.co.uk for an entry form. Nominations must be received by 5pm tomorrow.
Click here to download the entry form
THE CATEGORIES
We are looking for nominations for Glasgow’s community heroes in each of the following categories:
- INDIVIDUAL AWARD
- TEAM AWARD
- PUBLIC SERVICES INDIVIDUAL AWARD
- PUBLIC SERVICES TEAM AWARD
- SENIOR COMMUNITY CHAMPION
- YOUNG COMMUNITY CHAMPION
Visit the Evening Times’ dedicated community websites:
battlefield.eveningtimes.co.uk
mountflorida.eveningtimes.co.uk
CASE STUDY: CARMUNNOCK PRIMARY SCHOOL
The staff and children of Carmunnock Primary School have been bitten by the fundraising bug in a big way ... and it’s all down to six-year-old Jenny Cook.
The Waterside Road primary with just 183 pupils has raised more than £6000 for Yorkhill Children’s Foundation in the last year … more than any other school their size has raised for the charity.
And it prompted those at the Foundation, a charity which backs the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill, to nominate the school in the Glasgow Community Champion Awards.
Jenny, her schoolmates and teachers organised a cheese and wine event last June, in addition to regular raffles, auctions and bring-and-buy sales.
Teacher Andrew Welch ran six 10k races, janitor Brian Ashe cycled from Glasgow to Edinburgh and teacher Sadie Gibb and headteacher Margaret Macleod swam 60 lengths of the pool as part of a sponsored triathlon.
The fundraising began after Jenny decided she wanted to raise cash for the hospital where she underwent two four-hour operations for a bowel condition.
Headteacher Margaret Macleod, said: “It’s a small village and there is a real community feel to it, so when we decide to put our minds to something, everyone gets on board.
“Everybody was inspired by Jenny, who had been through so much but has never grumbled once and is always smiling.”
The P2 pupil from Stewartfield, East Kilbride was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when she was aged four and her weight had plummeted to just over a stone.
Her large bowel was removed and a colostomy bag fitted.
Despite the complex operation, Jenny was back at home with mum Kirsteen, dad Barry and brother Alex, three, within days.
Jenny underwent a reversal in January.
Yorkhill’s community fundraiser Kirsten Sinclair said: “It is lovely to see children helping other children and this is why we think Jenny Cook and her friends at Carmunnock Primary deserve to be Young Community Champions.”
CASE STUDY: LANGSIDE YOUTH CONNEXION
Whether they’re showing off their musical talents, fasting for charity or taking part in sponsored walks, the young people of Langside Youth Connexions have many strings to their fundraising bows.
The 15 members aged 12-21, all from Glasgow’s South Side, throw themselves into raising cash for a variety of good causes.
They donated more than £6000 to The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice from a 24-hour famine and quiz held in February.
The group staged concerts in 2007 and 2009 as part of the global Voices For Hospices celebrations, in addition to performing Christmas carols at the St Enoch Centre.
“They’re a very talented bunch,” said leader Alex Jack, 58, “We’ve got a guy who can play oboe, a cello player, piano player and guitar players.”
The youth group, formerly called the bible class of Langside Church of Scotland, took on its current name 1994. They meet on Sundays in David Cargill Centre, at 10.30am, to discuss a mix of topical and faith-based issues.
They have raised money for Erskine, Marie Curie, Yorkhill Children’s Foundation, for malaria nets in Uganda, for the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami aid effort and the Haiti earthquake appeal.
Last April at the Scottish Parliament, the group picked up the Diana Certificate of Excellence award for its fundraising work.
