I give a tenner a month to a foodbank in Govanhill (I lived nearby for years and years). It's not gift aided, which saddens me a little, but it was hard enough getting the deets to set up a direct debit and gift aid on top was a bridge too far for them.
"Everybody has a story — what's yours?" Alongside Greater Govanhill, we reflect on how holding open editorial meetings in our Community Newsroom helped rebuild trust https://www.publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/our-community-newsroom-how-holding-open-editorial-meetings-helps-rebuild-trust
The Ferret and Greater Govanhill’s Community Newsroom showed how community perspectives can shape meaningful storytelling. This article is part of the People-Powered Storytelling collaborative series.“Everybody has a story,” starts the tagline above the shop front window of our tiny community newsroom in Glasgow’s Govanhill. “What’s yours?”This invitation to the local community to collectively share in the story gathering process is at the heart of the mission of The Community Newsroom, a partne
I was really pleased to get to write an article for the mighty Greater Govanhill about the archive and the legacies of the Free State www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/the-l...
In this article, Katherine Mackinnon goes digging in the archive of the Pollok Free State protest movement, to tell the story of a legendary struggle against the expansion of the M77 through Pollok ...
her reporting on govanhill is very hit and miss too because while she clearly likes the place she also can't help but be a facilitator of a lot of Both Sides Are Right language on its supposed racial tensions instead of shutting that shit down like the not-a-thing it really is
i ended up mutuals with her over her good reporting on govanhill and the insane bike lanes situation around central, only to find out about.... everything else :(
Two extremely cute and fun ice cream trucks have rocked up outside the Govanhill Lidl, and while I'm not going to dox myself by posting the photos I took for the group chat, please take it from me that it's Extremely Good Times.
