A report on the first year of delivery of the Glenkens Hub.

The Network’s purpose is to bring together the voluntary committees who run and maintain village halls and centres across the Glenkens.

This paper from the Community Action Plan Steering Group (CAP SG), owners of the Glenkens & District Community Action Plan, sets out a clear rationale for a delay to the decision to mothball the Dalry Secondary School to allow the wider impact on the community to be assessed and appropriate mitigating actions put in place.

Glenkens Community & Arts Trust (GCAT) held their 2024 AGM on 29th January. After the business meeting, Helen Keron (GCAT Executive Manager) gave a five year Strategy Update for 2023-2028, including Artistic Vision and delivery of the Glenkens and District Community Action Plan (CAP).

This grant is for small tree and woodland planting projects which fall below the size eligible for the Forestry Grant Scheme. The maximum grant available is £1,000 per applicant per year.

Slides from meeting held on 19th September 2023 at the Smiddy, Balmaclellan by Ronan Doyle (Renewable Heat Engineer, Natural Power Consultants), Becca Nelson (Glenkens Community Spaces Network Facilitator) and Helen Keron (GCAT Executive Manager).

The ‘Can You Dig It’ Community Archaeology Programme was a four year Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership project, providing engaging and educational archaeology activities.

The Building Biographies project recruited volunteers to undertake research into some of the large country houses within Galloway.

The National Trust for Scotland’s Threave Landscape Restoration Project is a ground-breaking, 100 year initiative outside Castle Douglas.

Six booklets created during the Galloway Glens Scheme, supporting some of the different projects and initiatives undertaken.

A conservation report on the restoration of the Old Mortality sculpture in Balmaclellan.

A report on research carried out by Connecting in Communities (CiC), a Glenkens Community & Arts Trust project that ran between 2016 and 2023.

Active Travel Delivery Plan 2022-2032 presents an updated framework looking at creating suitable and attractive opportunities for walking, wheeling, cycling (or taking part in any form of active travel) across the region, by integrating the work of different Council services.

This Vision and the associated recommendations are intended as the first step to creating a balance in Glenkens land use where all voices are heard, respected and valued.

The Steering Group has been meeting in its present form for some 18 months now and so felt it was timely to publish an Update Report on the progress of the Community Action Plan to date.

In early 2022, Grave Encounters - a volunteer research project run by the Can You Dig It community archaeology group, part of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership - revealed the fascinating histories behind the names on some of the gravestones in Kells kirkyard.

Two report examining the potential for energy saving and decarbonisation in community and domestic buildings in the Glenkens.

A report on the work of Dr John Burns who has been investigating the changing language, voices and words of Galloway since 2019.