The Glenkens Community and Arts Trust (GCAT) hosted an Education and Learning event in the Glenkens on 11th July 2024, on behalf of the Glenkens and District Community Action Plan Steering Group. The event was designed to inform and inspire, in response to the changing nature of education provision in remote-rural Glenkens.

A ‘Land Use in the Glenkens’ meeting was held on 8th July 2024 in The Smiddy, Balmacellan to report and discuss the recent land use projects.

This feasibility study provides recommendations and guidance on how the potential of the Vision for Land Use in the Glenkens could be realised. In 2023 the communities of the Glenkens adopted this Vision, which sets out their aspirations for creating a landscape which is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable, where all voices are heard, respected, and valued, and where empowered communities have more control over the market and policy forces which currently shape the use of land.

Dalry Community Council with GCAT commissioned three complementary reports studying Land Use and Local Place Planning in the Glenkens. The studies were funded by SoSE and Nature Scot, to set out the next steps required to embed land use considerations in the Glenkens into the medium term.

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.

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).

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.

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

The GDT approached South of Scotland Community Housing (SOSCH) in 2021 to discuss the undertaking of a Housing Needs and Demands Assessment (HNDA) for the Trust to understand more about the current and future housing needs of its residents within the area covered by the GDT.