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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For many in Govanhill’s diverse community, food plays an important cultural role and provides a connection to home. Community reporter Grace Nthara explores the difficulties in finding some multicultural food and the initiatives working to improve access.
The Southside has no shortage of musical talent, from wavy pop tunes to headbangers. Writer Andrew Stark checked them out at Scotland’s annual Kelburn Garden Party and shared how their sounds are shaping the stage and getting the festival’s crowd on their feet.
Sport was always important to Shaimaa Alrashwanii’s family in Syria, but years of conflict made it difficult to keep taking part. She writes about how moving to Glasgow helped the family rediscover sport and find a community.
They might be thousands of miles apart, but Lahore, Pakistan, and Glasgow’s Southside share a love of kite-flying. Community reporter Farhana Ahmed explores the similarities between Pakistan’s Basant festival and Glasgow’s Pollok Kite Fest.
Rugby sevens and cricket didn’t feature at Glasgow 2026. Their absence removed two sports whose histories are deeply intertwined with the British Empire.
When Glasgow agreed to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, it raised important conversations about the historical and ongoing legacies of colonialism. As the city says goodbye to the Games, those questions remain.
Saturday saw the tenth annual Govanhill International Parade & Carnival. Over 1000 people took part in Govanhill Parade this year with many more attending the festival in Govanhill Park after. Photographer Rob Reid captured the day on film.
Campaigners have vowed to fight plans to close Queen's Park Glasshouse, arguing the historic building is a vital community resource used by families, students and visitors from across the Southside.
One Thursday, nearly 40,000 voters in Glasgow Southside went to the polls to elect their new MSPs for the Scottish Parliamentary Election. The Scottish Greens’ Holly Bruce secured one of the first ever Green constituency seats for the local area. Speaking to Greater Govanhill, the MSP spoke about how she will tackle the issues you care about.
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.