30/01/2025  Preliminary gas disconnection work carried out by SGN

20/01/2025 Starling Learning confirm that neither the erection of the security fencing nor the demolition of the outhouses will disrupt wildlife. However as their ecology survey has identified the presence of a maternity bat roost in the main building, the former club itself cannot be demolished till around December 2025-January 2026

17/01/2025 Reigart given the go-ahead to put up security fencing and demolish outhouses. Timing to be confirmed

17/01/2025 CALA agree to pay for both security fencing and outhouse demolition from the fund they’ve awarded for demolition

09/01/2025 Extension of community exemption for water supply charges agreed with Clear Business (backdated to 1 April 2023)

07/01/2025 Permission requested for CALA Homes to pay for security fencing and outbuilding demolition from agreed demolition fund

07/01/2025 Quotation received from Reigart for the erection of security fencing and the demolition of outhouses at the back of the club building (these having become a health and safety concern)

03/12/2024 Very welcome donation received from AIS Vanguard’s Community Fund. Huge thanks to them!

28/11/2024 SP Energy Networks engineers cut off the electricity supply to the derelict club by digging out component parts ‒ a necessary preliminary step to demolition of the building. Next in the pre-demolition works will be a similar gas disconnection operation scheduled for January 27th

27/11/2024 The Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT), a benefactor to and supporter of the community hub project as well as a long-time friend of Waterside and surrounds, marked their 25th anniversary at Holyrood. At this celebration of the CRT’s contribution to its coalfields communities, one of the team offered to help with our Local Place Plan. What a fabulous offer!

23/11/2024 Local shop Archie’s Newsagents was officially reopened 11 months after the fire of December 2023. Charity members can now meet consultants and advisors at Archie’s Shed once more, cheerfully fuelled by rolls and sausage, bacon rolls, scrambled eggs on toast…

22/11/2024 Meeting with Sharon Bairden of Ceartas as part of our ongoing engagement with stakeholders ‒ our aim is to ensure potential hub users have every opportunity to provide input so their needs can be met as far as possible in the hub design

7, 14 & 21/11/2024 Two charity members took the All Things Financial online training with Pamela Redpath, courtesy of East Dunbartonshire Council: a wonderfully useful run-through of the dos and don’ts of building a strong financial foundation; budgeting and sound financial management; and preparing annual accounts

14/11/2024 Meeting with June Grindley of Creatovators ‒ one of a very important series of discussions with potential hub users to ensure their requirements are taken into account where possible in the hub design

14/11/2024 The Waterside Community Hub website and Facebook page are now live!

Below: Any occasion is a potential recruitment opportunity!

31/10/2024 Meeting with EDC councillors and senior officials from the planning department to update them on progress on fundraising and planning application

Also: A Waterside walking route (starting from the charity’s car park) became part of the Eco-Museum of Scottish Mining Landscapes. This walk will bring walkers and historians to the area – potential customers for the eventual Waterside Community Hub cafe and museum

20/09/2024 Charity members attended EDVA’s Thank You, Volunteers dinner, the charity having been nominated for an Organisation of the Year award and awarded a trophy in recognition of this

17/09/2024 Award of £7,040 towards architects’ £9,600 planning application costs made by EDC Community Grants

11/09/2024 Further £500 cost-of-living award (unrestricted funding) made by the Robertson Trust, which had awarded the charity £2,000 in August

07/09/2024 Hub project had stand at Kirkintilloch Festival of Clubs, with slide show of Waterside events of the past by local historian Edward Z. Smith

04/09/2024 Planning Sustainability Report supplied by Hulley & Kirkwood

Also: quantity surveying services provided by Armour Construction Services