This Saturday, 7pm at KPC, copycinema presents a free film screening of ‘United Red Army’. Pop along for popcorn!

(film not appropriate for children, will be upstairs so NOT suitable for disabled access)

more info here…
copycinema.co/united-red-army

For the last 15 months we have tried to talk to the Council / City Property, funders, other agencies and councillors about how we all might work together to secure the long term future of Kinning Park Complex as a community facility.

We are a strong community making good use of the building and intend to do so for the long term. We have written to City Property asking for urgent clarification of their intentions and asked our local political representatives for an urgent meeting. We will update on progress with that next week.

The number of building users has grown again enormously in the past 2 years and that is fabulous.  We need now to ask you all to make your voice heard in support of KPC.

This City Property letter reminds us that despite the huge efforts made by many in the community to keep this building open and in daily use there is still a long way to go to secure our long-term future and fund the major repairs needed.

The main thing to remember is that it is business as usual at KPC. Future bookings are secure. Please continue to make bookings and conduct all business as usual.

But please act to support us – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. Please:

• Contact local councillors, MP, MSP and MEP to ask them to support our call for City Property to withdraw this Notice and meet with us to discuss the situation (see contact list at end of this message).

• Contact City Property directly. Ask them to withdraw the Notice. Feel free to raise any questions or thoughts with them – eg. you might also want to ask them why, while they claim to be the new landlord, they are not prepared to spend a penny on the essential repair work?

• Sign-up as a supporter of KPC so that we can provide more evidence of the numbers of people who use the building. Please also encourage all of the people who attend your classes or events and all other building users and friends to sign-up as well.

Below is our new Supporter of KPC sign-up form. Please add your contact details and return it to us.

Please also forward this message to anyone else who should see it. We will be updating our website and facebook page shortly.

As next steps - We urge all friend of KPC to contact the elected representatives and sign-up as a registered supporter of KPC.

Finally, just to be clear, we will NOT be vacating the premises on 27 May 2013 or anytime in the foreseeable future, but we will have to make our voices heard if we are to secure the long-term future of the building and the funding for repairs.

Please let me know if you have any other questions. However please do keep in mind that with all this and the usual work going on it might take a while for us to answer everyone.

All the best, and did I say, it’s business as usual

Lindsay and all at KPC

Below is our supporter signup form and contact details for local politicians and for City Property

Become a KPC Supporter

Kinning Park Complex is an independent community centre, used for dance classes, theatre projects, benefits advice, art and music events, kids’ activities and much more.

We would like to be able to keep you up to date with what’s happening around the building. We’d also like to be able to include your name in a list of KPC Supporters.

Please sign up below. We need all the details if possible.

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I want to be a registered supporter of KPC

Name:

Address:

Post Code:

Email:

Tel:

Your name will be added to our Supporters page – no other info is shared.

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Please fill in your details and email this section back to us at info@kinningparkcomplex.org

Please use the subject title: Another KPC Supporter

Councillors

Allison Hunter (SNP)

Email: allison.hunter@councillors.glasgow.gov.uk

Phone: 0141 287 4319

Fariha Thomas (Labour)

Email: fariha.thomas@councillors.glasgow.gov.uk

Phone: 0141 287 5604

James Adam (Labour)

Email: james.adams2@councillors.glasgow.gov.uk

Phone: 0141 287 7046

Stephen Dornan (Glasgow First)

Email: stephen.dornan@councillors.glasgow.gov.uk

Phone: 0141 287 7040

Address to write to councillors

c/o City Chambers

George Square

Glasgow, G2 1DU

MP – Anas Sarwar (Labour)

Email: anas.sarwar.mp@parliament.uk

Phone: 0141 429 6027

MSP – Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)

Email: Nicola.Sturgeon.msp@scottish.parliament.uk

Phone: 0141 424 1174

Managing Director of City Property – Richard Rae

Email:            richard.rae@citypropertyglasgow.co.uk

Phone: 0141 287 6151

Thanks!

KPC Garden Building Day

We have had lots of feedback about the ideas for turning the playground into a community garden space. Thanks!  We wont do it all in one day, it will take a number of days over a few months.

This Saturday we make a big start. It’s a voluntary thing. Come along to help, teach, learn or just see what its all about. Jobs this Sat will include building compost bins, building planters, weeding, digging, wood recycling and generally helping out.

A garden design meeting will also be ongoing during the day 12-3pm to get your input on design and plan for the next part of the garden work. Specifically we want to pick your brain about the best construction methods and materials and to plan for building a tool shed (e.g. 3m x 2m), a bike shed (for 20 bikes), a large open sided roofed sitting area / shelter and also for upright planters / living walls, and more ideas on what to plant.

Can you also bring a power drill? We have a few here but would have work for maybe 3 or 4 more of them based on the number of people we expect. If you can bring one please do. We could also do with more hammers x 4, hand-saws x 2, shovels x 2, trowels x 2.

It’s a sawing, screwing, digging and hammering type of day. Dress for getting dirty. We will have gloves and overalls available if you need them. There will be a lunch provided at around 12.30-1pm. Come along.

The Rites of Spring – KPC Social

Spring has sprung.
The grass is riz.
I wonder where the burdies iz?

At long last! A celebration of the long time coming of S P R I N G.

Join us for a refreshing dose of green growth and renewal.

LIVE BAND for Vitalizing Vibrations. Cheap BAR. TEQUILA VERDITAS SERVED – Some Xtra special greenery and zing for your insides…

Fresh and Frisky tunes from DJ RACHEL WALKER.

Foliage and green gowns encouraged. Come get your bloom on!

A FREE Fruit Of The Earth for all guests! 8pm till late. £4 ENTRY

Hope to see you at one or both

Glad Community Choir was set up by Alexis Stearns and Rory Haye as part of the Glad Foundation.  All money raised at this event will go to the Glad Foundation which has been set up to fund and support free/affordable music tuition to young people in the South Side of Glasgow.

Friday 3rd May at Kinning Park Complex. Doors open 7pm, first band on at 7.30.

Tickets £4 available from Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow, G41 2HG.

At long last! A celebration of the long time coming of S P R I N G.

Join us for a refreshing dose of green growth and renewal.

LIVE BAND for Vitalizing Vibrations

CHEAP BAR

TEQUILA VERDITAS SERVED – Some Xtra special greenery and zing for your insides…

Fresh and Frisky tunes from DJ RACHEL WALKER.

Foliage and green gowns encouraged.

Come get your bloom on!

A FREE Fruit Of The Earth for all guests!

£4 ENTRY

We have in mind a garden area, including some seating and sheltered spaces, a tool shed, composting, bins and recycling. And a relatively big bike shed.

We have set a target date of Saturday 27th April to physically build/install the main part of the garden and bike shed. We have an offer of help from volunteers with a group called Exchange Scotland; we also have a grant to spend and, with your help, we can make something nice with that space.

Many hands make light work and all that, and it would be great to see the playground brought into use and looking decent. We are looking for design ideas, input on all things gardening, and we also need a few people to help plan and build the bike shed – any architects or builders out there, or just anyone that’s handy with a hammer and saw, make yourself known!

A few of us have come up with a very initial draft drawing of the space incorporating some of these ideas to get an idea of size, scale, and potential layout – you can see that below. Of course, it’s subject to discussion and change as required. If you’d like to contribute to this process, we look forward to meeting you on the 12th. If you can’t make that date, look out for future meetings over the coming weeks, or just come along to help with the work on April 27th.

“GOOD NEWS: Nansady Keita will be back from Guinea any days now and will be available to start a new block of evening class in Glasgow very soon! (www.nansadykeita.com).

It will be a block of 5 weeks, STARTING Tuesday 26 February and finishing 2 April which means there will be a one week gap: NO Class on Tuesday 19 March. Classes run from 8.30pm till 10pm.”

For more information call BRUNO – 07905705264 or email bruno.lowit@virginmedia.com

A new benefits advice service and community resource centre will be opening up at Kinning Park Complex this February.

Run by West Glasgow Against Poverty (WestGAP), the service will provide advice and information relating to financial issues including benefits, housing, fuel debts and various other areas. WestGAP’s volunteers have a vast range of experience and have gained positive outcomes for those in our community most in need. In addition to this, they have a wide range of contacts, so will ensure that clients will be pointed in the right direction should they be unable to deal with a particular case. The service will be open to all and completely free.

WestGAP will be open two days every week, in Room 1 at KPC:

Wednesday | 10am – 3pm | appointments

Friday | 10am – 1pm | drop-in session

To make an appointment, please call 0141 237 2401 (from Friday 15th February). A WestGAP volunteer will call you back as soon as possible.

You can find WestGAP on Facebook at facebook.com/glasgowagainstpoverty