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 […]
Category Archives: Life in The Well
“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 […]
Admin Worker
For the past 15 months we have been blessed to have had Ellen Cooke seconded from Interserve Scotland and Ireland, to help with our admin work in The Well. As Ellen’s role in Interserve will come to an end with Interserve Scotland and Ireland merge their England and Wales counterparts to form Insterserve GBI, Ellen’s […]
Lunch at The Space
We work in close partnership with The Space in Govanhill. A local organisation who do a fantastic work with Romanian Roma Families in the area. Recently Ailie from the People’s Bank of Govanhill asked if we would be willing to have a lunch for women in Govanhill, bringing together women from The Well and The Space. […]
We need people!
The Well depends on volunteers to function. I’m always encouraged with the sheer quality and commitment of our volunteers – they truly are a very special group of people. However we need more! We currently have gaps on both Wednesday morning and afternoon for the regular advice sessions. Perhaps you would be interested in helping […]
From there to here . . . .
As part of our development we’ve had a look at where our service users come from, the journeys they’ve taken, the churches that we have links with, and the partner organisations that we work with. All of us who took part in the exercise found it encouraging, challenging and really quite amazing to see that […]
