During and since the lockdown, there have been many other innovative creative projects happening across East Dunbartonshire. Although not directly created as part of the Remembering Together East Dunbartonshire project, we are keen to showcase and celebrate this amazing work created by our community partner organisations.
You can browse the projects below:
Other Community ProjecTS
Carers Link East Dunbartonshire
Carers Link provides information and support to unpaid carers who live in East Dunbartonshire or care for someone who lives in East Dunbartonshire. During the lockdown they continued to provide this essential support. Their projects included a book produced by Young Adult Carers, written and illustrated by the young people themselves. You can view this in the gallery below. The service also produced a podcast about the challenges young carers have faced during lockdown, balancing caring roles with schoolwork, and ways to maintain mental and physical wellbeing. You can listen to this on the website HERE.
Waterside Community Council
" Waterside showed community spirit at its best during the Covid pandemic. Danny McFadden has recorded some memories (that you can listen to below) touching on the activities of several community groups as well as Archie’s the village shop; Christmas and summer events; travelling outside the village; and his experience of volunteering for the home-grown G66 Covid Response group, which expanded to become Community Response in East Dunbartonshire (CRED).
Lots more was happening in Waterside that is not covered in these recollections: street bingo over the garden fence, for instance, essential workers continuing their work, children being home-schooled, and, of course, Waterside’s own tragic losses. "
Group Recovery Aftercare Community Enterprise (GRACE)
GRACE is a local charity that manage and operate peer led recovery aftercare groups in the towns of Kirkintilloch and Auchinairn, serving the whole of East Dunbartonshire. In their film Tales from the Doorstep, they found, documented, created, and captured expressions and thoughts of all who have been involved with or engaged through GRACE Online Recovery Aftercare COVID-19 Response. These materials serve as the founding ingredients in the creation of artistic and documentary presentations, both in digital and analogue media, that explore and reflect upon living through the lockdown of 2020. They also provide an opportunity to look to the future and the new pathways we must form together as we step back into life post COVID-19. You can watch their film HERE.