Making Just Futures

Hello. We're glad you found your way here :) This is where you can find more info about our project, Making Just Futures.

What is it?

Making Just Futures is a community where we build, make, grow, knit, cook, learn, talk and can be together.

What would I be doing?

There are a number of ways you can participate in Making Just Futures.

You might simply share food and conversation as part of community built around learning and mutual support.

You'll most likely sign up to learn woodwork or help out in the garden at weekly sessions. Probably there'll be other workshops, film screenings and gatherings that you'll be interested in joining. You might join in on discussions about issues that affect us and our neighbourhoods.

We hope that along the way - as well as picking up practical skills that you'll learn about yourself and others, meaning that you feel closer to people in general.

Who is it for?

Anyone is welcome to join and we particularly want to welcome folk living locally, and those from communities across the city struggling to get through week to week, for whatever reason. Perhaps you’re struggling to get by on a limited budget or overcoming struggles related to addiction or just feeling a bit low. Maybe you've been out of work for some time. Or perhaps you experience some form of discrimination or are new to Scotland.

How do I find out more?

We run regular Welcome sessions on first and third Wednesday every month (11am-12:30pm). We’ll show you round and chat about the project and what you can expect. There's also our Wednesday community lunch that you're welcome to stay on for.

To find out more - book a welcome session >>> here <<<

Click on the link to select a date. We also ask a few questions to help us ensure we're reaching everyone equally. Booking helps us manage numbers and gather any information about access requests or severe allergies so we can do our best to welcome you well.

There's also our Wednesday community lunch that you're welcome to stay on for.

Referrers: you can find more information here.

You might also want to keep an eye on our linktr.ee/galgael

This project is supported by The National Lottery Community Fund through the new Fairer Life Chances Fund, Glasgow Communities and Place Fund (UKSPF), NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and other funders without whom this project would remain less possible.

Latest

Referrals
Origin Story - The GalGael Garden and Ibrox Commons

Our garden is a hive of activity. This blog, previously the garden webpage, explains a bit more about the where, why and how our 'Unexpected Garden' came into existence.
Common Ground visit to GalGael - sharing our community-first practice

Our visit to GalGael has been a timely and reinvigorating reminder of that truth and an opportunity to remember why we became community workers in the first place. Giving us a renewed sense of mission and clarity on the importance of community-led approaches in what feels for many of us the most challenging social, economic and political times we have lived and work through.
Gerry McCartney

GalGael Garden and Ibrox Commons

Our Garden and Commons are at the heart of Making Just Futures. They’re not just spaces – they’re part of our community model and where we work together on common tasks that reveal our common humanity.
Community Meals

We have two community meals on each week - lunch on a Wednesday from 12:30pm, and an evening meal on Thursdays from around 6pm.

Timber and firewood

We produce a number of Scottish hardwoods - often by working with partners within Historic Environment Scotland and Glasgow City Council to bring locally produced timber for sale to the public and for use in our products.
Why we need volunteers

GalGael offers activities that help people reclaim skills, agency and sense of worth. Without our crew of dedicated volunteers, these activities wouldn't happen nor would the many other adventures we have.
Making Just Futures

Making Just Futures is a community where we can build, make, grow, knit, cook, talk and be together.
How to participate

There are many ways to get involved in our work. Find out how to become part of what we're doing, visit us or stay connected.
Community Meals

We have two community meals on each week - lunch on a Wednesday from 12:30pm, and an evening meal on Thursdays from around 6pm.
Where we are

This is where you'll find us. We work and gather around tables and workbenches, at events, at cultural sites and in the great outdoors.
Our story

Our story is crafted by many people. It starts in one of the most deprived areas of Glasgow, where the GalGael grew from an environmental campaign. We created GalGael as a vehicle to take forward what we’d learned and to move from being about what we didn’t want to what we did want.
About our social enterprise

Our range of products and services - activities that generate meaning and income to help us become self-sustaining.
GalGael Next?

Big changes at GalGael
A new state

Govan Free State: living in the early days of a better nation. So COP26 is coming to town, about the same time as GalGael enter our 25th year. And so we thought what more appropriate way to mark all this than to declare a new free state - returning to our roots in Pollok Free State - an anti motorway camp. A playful, creative exploration of power and legitimacy in the face of climate emergency. An act of solidarity with those communities struggling for recognition of their territories.