Our devotional reading about seeing lilies in unusual and difficult places, that their very presence is a reminder not to worry. One of the staff shared the following thought: “For the folks who come to The Well, we are that lily – they are not worried about us needing more volunteers, our needing new premises, […]
Category Archives: Life in The Well
Advice Work – the highs and lows
Yesterday in The Well two different members of the team were working with two different people in two different offices. One was helping a person deal with debt and the other helping a person with pension credit. One made a phone call and after some discussion was able to get the person’s debt reduced by […]
Immigration Advice and Support
The Well is now registered with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) to provide level 1 immigration advice and support. We offer this service impartially and free of charge, thanks to funding from the South East Integration Network (SEIN). This service is being offered in response to the sharp increase in enquiries related […]
What a week!
We’ve just come to the end of a very busy week in The Well. On top of the routine information and advice work we squeezed in the first of our 25th anniversary celebrations – our Chai & Chat group organised and hosted an afternoon tea party for the women who attend our various activities and […]
Silver Anniversary!
Celebrating 25 years of serving ethnic minority communities in some of Glasgow’s most deprived areas For the last quarter of a century, The Well Multi-Cultural Resource Centre (The Well) has been providing a high quality information and advice service for ethnic minority communities in Govanhill and surrounding areas containing datazones among the most deprived 5% […]
25 years
We’re just about to turn 25!! Our hope is to the make the next year a year of mini events that will celebrate our Silver Anniversary starting with a Chai & Chat celebration with local women from all backgrounds on the 26th March. This will be the launch of our Chai & Chat at home […]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Finally the updated newsletter from The Well – read about our recent experiences of Good, Bad and some really Ugly! December 18
I’ll buy you a coffee . . .
Last week I accompanied a young woman to an appointment. We were early and so decided to have an ice-cream. She was so happy, and told me that she’d not had an ice-cream ‘outside’ in five years. She’d been little more than a servant in her marital home, but things have changed and now she […]
“You make Christmas all about people.”
At our final Chai & Chat Session for this year, after the women had spent time decorating Christmas Ginger Cookies – they looked amazing! Afterwards we had our traditional Christmas Story time, and Penny told the women how one of her Bubbles mum had said “Christmas Parties are different here, you make it all about […]
Farewell to Sarah
For the past year we have benefited from Sarah’s help with our funding applications. Sarah fitted in quickly and easily to the team, and we certainly benefitted from her youthful enthusiasm, confidence and marketing experience. So we were disappointed when Sarah got a new job, which meant she would no longer have the time to […]
