We are delighted to share with you the wonderful news that St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow has finally reopened its doors to the public! St Mungo's Museum is unique: named after Glasgow's patron saint, the museum explores the importance of religion in peoples’ lives across [...]
One Big Picnic – the free annual community event that celebrates unity-in-diversity and promotes food justice – was back with a bang on September 4th on Glasgow’s George Square, after a two-year hiatus due to Covid. There was such a fantastic buzz as people of all backgrounds tried free food from [...]
The 'best community event of the year' is returning to George Square from 12.30-3pm on September 4th, and everyone's invited! After a two-year hiatus One Big Picnic is returning to George Square, giving everyone in Glasgow the chance to try delicious food served by people of diverse faith and beliefs [...]
In response to participant asks for a trip out of the city during the summer holidays, the Weekend Club took a trip to Loch Lomond with activities organised by Operation Play Outdoors. Weekend Club staff, volunteers, and participants gathered on the morning of Sunday 7th August in George Square to [...]
The summer holidays can be an isolating time for a lot of people, so organising fun, free, family-friendly events for New Scots during the summer months is an important part of what the Weekend Club does. In July, we were delighted to collaborate on an event for families with Parent Network Scotland [...]
Scottish faith communities have sent a letter to COP26 President Alok Sharma calling on him to demonstrate what the Presidency has been doing to honour the Glasgow Pact commitments. The Glasgow Pact includes commitments from 197 nations to build resilience to climate change, curb greenhouse gas emissions and provide finance for both. [...]
For our second event as part of Refugee Festival Scotland, The Weekend Club hosted a writing workshop for a small group of women from refugee backgrounds, facilitated by writer Abigail Haworth. In advance of the event, we sent the women a printed copy of a short story written by a [...]
The Weekend Club was delighted to attend and support an event organised by Faith in Community Scotland and Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees as part of their Faithful Welcome project to mark the beginning of Refugee Festival Scotland 2022. The event had two parts: a daytime gathering to discuss how [...]
We are delighted to invite you to Interfaith Glasgow's annual AGM … in person (for the first time since 2019), taking place 6.30-8.30pm on Wednesday 6th July at Flemington House, Springburn! Real human beings! Delicious free food! Yes, there’ll be the annual accounts … but we promise plenty of laughter and warmth too! 😊 You’ll [...]
Following a successful online event with RSPB Scotland in February 2021, the Weekend Club was invited to visit an RSPB reserve when lockdown restrictions allowed. On Saturday 28th May 2022, we were delighted to take a day trip to the RSPB nature reserve at Lochwinnoch! Having got to Lochwinnoch by [...]
