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 […]
Category Archives: Life in The Well
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 […]
New Session
The schools in Glasgow go back tomorrow and or the first Monday in a very long time, The Well is quiet – I guess a lot of people are getting the last minute things sorted. Various folks are also getting ready to restart all of our activities. The Women’s English Class will start on Tuesday […]
Parenting Together
Recently we were given funding from St Margaret’s Scottish Episcopal Church in Newlands to run a parenting class for some of our Mums. Since April we have been meeting every Wednesday morning in Govanhill Free Church, with a group of mums primarily from a Pakistani background, but also one Romanian mum was referred to us […]
I, Daniel Blake
Next week our volunteers will be watching the film “I, Daniel Blake” as part of their training for the work in The Well. If you’ve not seen it, then I encourage you to watch it. The harsh reality of sanctions and dealing with a system, which by its nature forces people into poverty, with little […]
