This paper explores the future of rural education in the context of the Glenkens community, highlighting findings from the 2024 CoDeL report and outlining practical recommendations for national and local policymakers.
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 Education and Learning event held in the Glenkens in July 2024 catalysed a very useful meeting between the CAP Steering Group and Dr Gillian Brydson, Director of the Dumfries and Galloway Education, Skills and Community Wellbeing department. The meeting has led to actions that are being worked by both sides, and hopefully heralds a new era of community and Council partnership working on these critically important issues for the area.
A report of potential improvements for each of eleven community buildings, to enable the management committees to develop bids for grant funding to make the buildings more sustainable, both environmentally and financially.
This report investigates two typical domestic building types common in the Glenkens: “Post-war” – a post 1940’s semi-detached bungalow reflective of housing seen throughout the area; and “Galloway Cottage” – a pre-1919 1.5-storey mid-terrace dwelling constructed of solid walls which make up the majority of the traditional housing stock throughout Glenkens.
Slides from meeting held on 19th September 2023 at the Smiddy, looking the findings of the Energy Efficiency & Decarbonisation in Glenkens Buildings reports.
This Feasibility Study lays the groundwork for a landscape-scale programme of interventions in the Glenkens aimed at linking existing areas of high ecological value through the creation of new habitats and the ecological enhancement of current land uses.
The project was led by Balmacellan Community Council and carried out by Graciela Ainsworth Sculpture Conservation Company, with funding from Blackcraig Wind Farm Community Fund, administered by Foundation Scotland / Glenkens & District Trust (60%) and Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership’s National Lottery Heritage Fund (40%).
