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.
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%).
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.
