Queen’s Park Performance Space
The Community Council are delighted to announce their involvement in this spearheading project in collaboration with 3 other local Community Councils.
In February, the Scottish Government announced the award of £15,000 to pump prime a project to renovate the performance area in Queen’s Park for the use of the local communities and groups. LBCCC will be working with 3 other Community Councils whose areas lie around the Park – Crosshill/Govanhill, Mount Florida and Shawlands & Strathbungo - to develop a scheme and raise the full cost. We are being supported by officers from Glasgow City Council.
This is one of only two pilot projects throughout Scotland designed to enhance the capacity of community councils to initiate, deliver and run projects for their own communities. The first meeting of the group established that the community councils are united in support of the idea and wish to see practical, sustainable facilities set up for contemporary use.
Evelyn Silber, Chair of Langside, Battlefield and Camphill Community Council, who is chairing the project group, said, ‘We are delighted to have been awarded this funding since Queen’s Park is a space enjoyed by so many people right across the South side. In working to provide a modern performance space, in succession to the previous bandstands, we believe we are doing something which will help local groups and performers, young and old, to showcase their work and talents and to create entertainment open to all.’
Andrew Montgomery, Secretary of Shawlands & Strathbungo Community Council and Chair of the Southside Festival Steering Group, said, ‘We very much welcome this collaborative project which will deliver a real benefit to the community. Community Councils are very focused on local needs and therefore one of our first objectives is to ask any local group who may wish to make use of the space to contact their Community Council.’
If you wish to comment on the project or are part of a music, drama or dance group who might be keen to make use of the space, please use the feedback forms on the Community Council websites. These are: