Community Connections is an ongoing project as part of our personal development work in Flourish, where a group of staff and members go on visits around Glasgow that help us build confidence, learn something new and utilise resources in the local area. All visits are suggested and planned by members, focusing on what they’d like to see. Members and staff then put details of these on My Maps and in a booklet or suggested resources for members. One member who has been very involved in CC described it here:
“We research what is available in Glasgow for members to access at any time. We go along to get a flavour of it in the hope that when we tell people, they can use those resources. The connections part is about being connected with your community and finding out about partnership working opportunities. We keep the info together so that if people ask, we have that repository.”
Members often write reviews on these trips to share their experiences with others, like this review of a visit to Glasgow Cathedral and St Mungo’s Museum:
A member acted as our tour guide, explaining what things were. There were thrones where the Queens would have sat and there was also a wooden tomb place with a skull and crossbones which our tour guide said she wasn’t keen on. No one was really keen on it either. It looked out of place in the Cathedral.
St Mungo’s Museum had a religious theme, explaining different religions, Sikhs went to the gurdwara, Jews to the synagogue and how different religions dressed.
There were artifacts showing a wedding dress from a hundred years ago and from a foreign county. It was interesting and made for a good, enjoyable day.”