Blacklands Community Association

• Membership number 5638
• Charity registered in Scotland SC028806

For the last 50 years we have been in charge of overseeing everything that happens in our centre, the council own the building but we as a committee manage it. We are here to meet the needs of our community. We have a monthly meeting which members of the public are welcome to come along to and put forward any ideas or concerns. We are a very tight knit community and if we know that someone is struggling we would visit them with a care package of shopping or whatever they needed (within reason) for the last 2.5 years we have had a free lunch club on for one day a week to feed people with hot meals, this has been very well received but it is costly and we use most of our income to deliver this service, so we need to source grant funding but we are finding it a bit difficult as it's food related. The Robertson Trust have been fantastic with us - we had 3 years funding with them of £5000 per year for people struggling with gas, electric and food etc so we will struggle on until we can no longer support people financially.Our chairperson Mr. Andrew Robb has been at the helm of the committee for the full 50 years that its has been running and our building is 125 years old in September so we have some celebrations coming up which will include lots of past and present members of our community.

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