Bringing youth and community together
Our new building is becoming real. Here are the plans for the new build. Keep checking our socials for updates.
While we are closed we will be visiting communities where our young people live and keeping in touch with them. Cook offs, cinema nights and games are all in the pipeline.
If you live in a town or village that is part of the rural Clydesdale Community get in touch as we may be coming to you.
These sessions offer a fantastic chance to meet new friends and have fun together before going up to high school.
This year we are working with Womankind who will be generously providing food for the young people. So get your form now!
We are working with Clydesdale Foodbank and the Gillespie Centre to collect items for the foodbank at Christmas
Did you know that Clydesdale Foodbank donates 560 cans of beans a week to families
Come in and leave an item and we will pass it onto the food bank. We will hand items over on the 8th of December
Many thanks
Did you know that every year nearly 40 million pumpkins are bought in the UK, but only 22 million are actually eaten – the rest are thrown away after they’ve been carved. Now that’s a scarey thought!
This year we’ve teamed up with Hubbub to invite everyone in Biggar to share their pumpkin-based dishes at our community Pumpkin Feast. Just pop down to the Youth Project between 5 pm and 7:30 for an evening of fun and food! Fancy dress is optional, as is bringing your own pumpkin-based dish. There are plenty of tasty ideas on how to #EatYourPumpkin on the Hubbub website, so why not try a few out!
Traditionalists who prefer tumshies are welcome to bring neep-based dishes along instead!
Of course we have all seen what is happening to our European neighbours and so many of us have wondered what we can do.
We at Biggar Youth Project decided to collect for the Ukraine. We contacted a Polish contact in a charity with a branch in Edinburgh and were soon given a list of what to collect. We shared this and within a week the local and wider community were dropping off items. We took two large vans packaged and labelled to Edinburgh and were met with such warmth and kindness. Of course we stayed and helped out and listened to how the war was affecting them personally.
Thank you to everyone who donated items on the list. From the shop owner who went to the cash and carry to fill his van, the nearby villages and towns for having collection points, down to the pupil who arrived after lunch with a packet of plasters he had bought. Thank you to the wonderful volunteers, who just got on with the job in hand, even though some of them just happened to be passing by. Thank you to the pupils who gave their time and continue to give their spare change for us to donate.