West Dunbartonshire Housing Associations
We were set up by a group of West Dunbartonshire Housing Association in 2002 and we continue to work with many of them to this date. We still have strong working relationships with Dunbritton Housing Association, Dalmuir Park Housing Association, Trafalgar Housing Association, Clydebank Housing Association and Knowes Housing Association.
Dunbritton Housing Association
Dunbritton Housing Association has approximately 980 properties across West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute. We have worked with them to support a variety of projects including:
Employability – we supported the Association to access funding enabling the provision of work based Modern Apprenticeship opportunities for unemployed young people (aged 16 – 24 years). We also worked alongside ACT Argyll to secure funding and manage the delivery of a series of training and employability projects focused on environmental improvements across Dunbritton stock in Argyll and Bute and Dumbarton.
Community Growing – Working with tenants, we created a community growing space within the Clydeview development for local people aged 60 & over; this was followed by work with Dumbarton Women’s Aid, to support and enhance their community growing spaces. Between 2017 and 2019, we secured funding and supported the delivery of the Pot to Plot Programme. Through this project, four new growing areas were established ; grow local workshops delivered; cooking classes and community food share events were held across the four sites ad smart shopper workshops delivered.
Between 2019 and 2021, we supported Dunbritton to access Heritage Lottery funding for the Dumbarton Harbour Heritage project. This project celebrated the heritage of Dumbarton as an integral part of the regeneration of Dumbarton Harbour and aimed to inspire a sense of place, using art to engage people and groups in learning about local heritage. The art and engagement elements were led by RIG Arts working alongside Alan Potter.
Knowes Housing Association
Knowes Housing Association has approximately 1,050 properties across West Dunbartonshire. We have worked with them to support a variety of projects including:
Flourishing Faifley supports the community of Faifley, West Dunbartonshire and all who live and work within this community. They aim to improve the health and wellbeing of all local people, build connections and friendships across the local community and support and encourage local people to learn new skills, that get people out of their homes and starts the continuous journey of engaging and growing the Faifley community. They do this through our community garden space and delivering projects that reduce social isolation.
We have been supporting Flourishing Faifley since they were established in January 2021, and we worked with them to become a SCIO in September 2023. We continue to provide support, through engagement, advice and service, including planning, development and funding. In June 2024, Flourishing Faifley won the TPAS Award for Communities Supporting Communities.
We worked with residents of Watchmeal Crescent, a project steering group and the surrounding community to transform a tired, antisocial backcourt. The project used art as a tool to engage the local community, made training and employability integral to implementation and transformed the space into a well-used, vitalised community resource. CLS lead on the project as Landscape Architects and Project Managers and secured all the funding to bring this project to completion.
CLS worked with Knowes tenants and the wider Faifley community to develop and implement a series of artworks across the community. The Art in Regeneration programme included a series of banners for end terraces and the design, development and implementation of two sculptures by Andy Scott, which are now significant features that define the Faifley community.
