It's time to meet more of our sensational Streets Ahead winners.

BEST COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

WINNER: THE CABIN

Set up to give local people the choice of healthy, low cost food - some of it grown in the community garden – this wonderful new shop run by Cranhill Development Trust has come up with lots of ways to help its customers.

As well as splitting packs of things like nappies and toiletries to make them more affordable, it also runs a fruit club for children and provides volunteering opportunities for residents.

“Most of our produce is in large containers for customers to buy as much or as little as they need, which leads to less food waste,” explains Marie Ward, chief executive of Cranhill Development Trust.

“We encourage customers to bring in their own containers for refills and to reuse carrier bags, for less plastic waste.”

The shop is run by one full-time member of staff and five volunteers, and the local community has warmly welcomed the team.

“We want to help take some of the pressure of local families on a budget,” adds Marie. “One lady called Linda, from Riddrie, was recently made redundant from the shop she worked in for 27 years.

“She told us for many families by the time they pay the bills, there is nothing left. She said it makes all the difference knowing you can come in to our wee shop and buy a small amount of something to last you to the end of the week.”

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RUNNERS UP:

FRIENDS OF LINN PARK

A FAIRY trail with a difference features at the heart of this fantastic group’s efforts in Linn Park.

Volunteers worked with local schoolchildren on the imaginative project, which combines fairy doors with QR codes, allowing participants to learn more about the woodland and its creatures as they go along.

It has created a lot of joy and brought the neighbouring Netherlee and Castlemilk neighbourhoods together, transforming a wildlife trail that had fallen into disrepair into a much-loved community resource.

Kevin Sinclair, chairperson, said the project had inspired the group to look at using QR technology in other areas of the park. “It is anticipated future years will involve other schools in improving the paths and creating more doors, refreshing the trail content and allowing new volunteers to help maintain the path,” he explains.

POLLOKSHAWS COMMUNITY HUB

In an area surrounded by regeneration building works and ongoing demolition, the Hub was the first new project to open its doors in the area for some time, giving residents a glimmer of hope that their community would finally be rebuilt.

It is a welcoming and friendly project, which brings people of all ages, from all backgrounds, together through a community choir, garden sessions, a Men’s Shed, needle crafts group and drop-in support.

“The aim was to create a happy, healthy, resilient and vibrant community,” smiles project manager Fiona Eadie. “The hub is more than the sum of its activities. It is the community, feeling ownership, doing it for themselves.”

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MEN MATTER SCOTLAND

This Drumchapel project is slowly but surely transforming its surrounding community, with regular litter-picks and clean-ups.

The volunteers cleared more than 100 bags of rubbish over three trips, and their efforts are inspiring others to be more mindful when it comes to disposing waste.

The group’s members are also feeling the benefit of taking part, boosting their self-esteem and sense of value to their families and their communities.

BEST SCHOOL

WINNER: JIMMY DUNNACHIE FAMILY LEARNING CENTRE

The kids at Jimmy Dunnachie and the older members of nearby Rainbow Day Care Centre have the time of their lives when they get together.

The nursery’s intergenerational project has been a huge success and the centre is now working on turning a small plot in the grounds into a community garden for use by all.

St Denis Primary School

The mighty pupils of St Denis Primary in Dennistoun are regularly out clearing up litter and maintaining planters at the nearby railway station.

They have a raft of eco initiatives on the go and the wider community is delighted by their fantastic efforts.

King’s Park Secondary

The young people of the school’s Achieve and Duke of Edinburgh classes have been hard at work in Linn Park, clearing paths and helping to install a new ‘fairy trail’, providing local people with a beautiful new place to walk.

The high school takes its role as a community school very seriously – and the King’s Park neighbourhood is richer as a result.

Burnbrae Childrens Centre

In a fantastic project, Burnbrae kids visit local care homes, building up relationships and trust between the generations and helping to boost the children’s confidence and social skills.

The centre is proud of its place in the Pollok community and the joy its projects bring to local people.

Headteacher Janis Maguire smiles: “Every session begins with a big exchange of hugs - and ends with smiles all round.”