HAVE YOUR SAY: Govanhill residents invited to respond to new Environmental Strategy for Govanhill
While Govanhill might be the coolest place to live in the UK, it shouldn’t feel like the grubbiest. Govanhill Housing Association is teaming up with several local organisations to tackle the area’s environmental issues. They need your feedback to make it work through online survey or in-person consultation session.
How an excavation at Queen’s Park connected communities to archaeology
Archaeologists are trying to unearth what lies beneath Queen’s Park, inviting the local community to an excavation that uncovered items that could make Southside one of Glasgow’s oldest known human settlements. Margot Leys speaks to the organisers, who share how community digs can help people connect to their neighbourhood’s past and present.
Banner-making: Sewing the seeds of change
Textile artist and banner maker, Keng Keng Tang shares the ingenuity of banners – their ability to share messages of protest and hope, from communities organising against climate change to those occupying arms factories.
Hampden Bowling Club: Saving the birthplace of Scottish football
When Hampden Bowling Club, an important football heritage site closed due to financial pressures, the keys were handed to City Property Glasgow. Now, community group First Hampden are working to save it from becoming a site for commercial development and calling for support from residents.
Tae speak withoot shrinkin
For writer Samar, one language feels like home; the other glows at a distance. In the space between Scots and Urdu, she reckons with loss and longing, exploring what it means to speak yourself into being and understanding that reclaiming a language isn’t just about fluency.
Who gets to swim: Barriers to swimming in Glasgow today
In part three of this three-part article, we explore the closure of these spaces, asking who is most affected when affordable swimming facilities are closed and how this changes who gets to swim and who is left behind.
Who gets to swim: Govanhill Baths and the rise of public swimming
In part two of this three-part article, we dive into the rise of public bathhouses like Govanhill Baths and what these spaces meant for working-class and marginalised communities.
Beyond all the great local businesses, what actually makes Govanhill cool?
After Govanhill was named the fifth coolest neighbourhood in the world, and the news made it all the way to the Scottish Parliament, we asked local people what they think actually makes the area so special.
Two years ago, Thomas Kerr celebrated Govanhill’s diversity. Now he calls it a ‘ghetto’. We asked him what changed
When we interviewed Thomas Kerr in 2024, he praised Govanhill’s “unique and wonderful character”. Now he is making sweeping claims about migration, crime and exploitation in the area. We asked for the evidence, what changed his view, and how much contact he has actually had with Govanhill.
Who gets to swim: Glasgow’s swimming culture before public baths
In part one of a three-part article, we dive into the history of swimming in Glasgow. From outdoor dips and gendered swimming culture that shaped who got to access the water.
Telling Bel’s story: new documentary on the life and music of Beldina Odenyo
A powerful new documentary currently touring independent cinemas brings together Beldina Odenyo’s music, words and memories to tell the story of the formerly Govanhill-based musician known as Heir of the Cursed.
Carved into history: preserving uncomfortable heritage
Thirty-two wooden doors from Govanhill Baths hold decades of names, memories, graffiti and community tensions. As part of a University of Glasgow placement, museum studies students helped conserve and catalogue the doors, confronting difficult questions about what community archives preserve, whose voices they represent, and how histories can be remembered.
Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert: on photographing community resistance
Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert’s photographs document major Southside protests, including the No M77 protests, the initial stages of the Save Our Pool campaign, and the more recent Kenmure Street protest. Through his conversation with aspiring photographer Ilaria Lipperi, he reveals the importance of locality, community ties, and the surprising international resonance of grassroots activism.
140 Days that changed Govanhill
25 years since the occupation of Govanhill Baths, Melissa Sigodo, asks what that act of community resistance meant, how it shaped the lives of those involved, why the reopening of Govanhill Baths has been delayed and what people can expect when it reopens.
Queen’s Park Glasshouse campaigners call for public ownership guarantee after £14m Winter Gardens pledge
The campaign to save Queen’s Park Glasshouse has welcomed major investment in Glasgow’s Winter Gardens, while calling for the Southside landmark to remain council-run, free and fully accessible to the public.
Why Glasgow’s children need equal access to sport
When writer Syeda Sadaf Zaidi first spotted a teenager sitting alone in a field, she wondered why he wasn’t at school. A conversation with the boy and his family told a wider story of different learning styles, unmet potential, and unequal access to sport.
Cricket in Glasgow: loved by many but still facing barriers
As a parent-volunteer involved in youth cricket, community reporter S.A. Jaffery regularly sees how much enthusiasm there is for the sport in Glasgow, but also how a lack of support could endanger it. He explores both the benefits of – and the barriers facing – one of the Southside’s most popular sports.
‘It wasnae me’ – How the urban myth of a hurled pineapple became an award presented to the Glasgow Women’s Library
From an urban myth about a thrown pineapple to a solid silver trophy: Glasgow Women’s Library takes home a unique new award honouring the community groups powering local activism and transformation.
Recipe: Malawian Mkhwani and Nsima
Nsima, a type of cornmeal, is Malawi’s staple food and mkhwani – an easy vegetable dish – is a popular accompaniment. Community reporter Grace Nthara shares her recipe for preparing these dishes in the traditional Malawian way.
Govanhill Street Music Festival 2026: What’s happening where
Live music, DJs, dance, performance and sound installations will take over streets, parks and our own Community Newsroom today [Sunday 16 August] for the Govanhill Street Music Festival. Here’s where to find it all.