Community Support and Development

  • Primary 1-4 Club

    Monday- 3pm-4.30pm Oakwood Primary School

    Wednesday 3pm-4.30pm St Benedict’s Primary School

  • Primary 5-7 Club

    Tuesday- 3pm-4.30pm Oakwood Primary School

    Thursday- 3pm-4.30pm St Benedict’s Primary School

  • Teen Club

    Tuesday- 6.30pm-8.30pm FARE

    Thursday- 6.30pm-8.30pm FARE.

  • Walking Group

    Wednesday 9.15am-11am FARE

  • Adult Group

    Wednesday 6.30pm-8.30pm FARE Thursday 10am-12pm Blairtummoch Housing Association

  • Easter Holiday Programme

    Easter Holidays Programme

    Oakwood Primary School Tuesday & Wednesday

    St Rose of Lima Primary School Thursday & Friday

    10-2.30

Primary 1-4 Club Primary 5-7 Club

Our P1-4 & P5-7 clubs are held in Oakwood Primary and St Benedict's Primary.

These clubs are provided to support local families in the area with a free after school club for their children to enjoy socialising with their friends from their school. Fare provides a team of staff to deliver sessions that include sports, arts and crafts, indoor and outdoor sports, games, dancing performing, quizzes, board games all within their familiar surroundings of their own school along with drinks and snacks.

Teen Club

The Teen Club at Fare runs twice a week on a Tuesday and Thursday evening between the hours of 6.30pm-8.30pm. The young people from the local community come to enjoy a wide range of activities which include games, quizzes, pool, table tennis, badminton, dancing, PlayStation, arts and crafts, cooking, movie nights, Xmas parties and trips.

Our amazing partnership with the local college (Glasgow Kelvin), give the local young people the chance to access qualifications whilst utilising IT Suite at Fare. GKC also provide free sessions for us at Pinkston Water Complex where they learn how to kayak, canoe and paddle board. Our staff and young people have recently taken the plunge in January 2023 to try 'cold water therapy'. They have been learning about the benefits to their health and wellbeing whilst competing against one another to increase their times in the water.

Adult Group

Staying socially connected and maintaining an active lifestyle are key elements of staying healthy. But not everyone finds it so easy to get out and about and stay social, especially those who live alone or are less mobile. That’s where our FARE Scotland’s adult clubs come in.

We run a wide range of groups and events in local communities, many of them staffed by our volunteers. They’re great places to meet old friends, make new ones, refresh existing skills or try something new.

Art, baking, exercise classes, crafts and cocktail making — there’s all sorts of fun to be had at FARE’s clubs!

No need for a lot of space or any specialist equipment, some don’t need any equipment at all, just a desire to join in!

Walking Group

FARE’s walking group meet every Wednesday. Our walks are promoted via our social media, and anyone can join in. You don’t have to have a specific health problem and it doesn’t matter what size, shape, or age you are!

Our wellbeing walks range from 45 – 90 mins and are suitable both for those wishing to start walking, or those wanting to improve their fitness, meet new people and discover open spaces in their local area. All walks are led by a trained walk leader, who will discuss any individual needs at the start of the walk, and plan support, as necessary.

Schools Programme/Family Support

FARE Scotland’s Family Liaison Officer role in primary schools is to provide support, advice, and information to the families within our school community.  They help families with any worries they may have in relation to their child's education, behaviour, and wellbeing. 

Staff can meet families at home or in school at a time to suit them. Advice and support are confidential although concerns relating to the safeguarding of children will always be dealt with in accordance with the school and/or FARE’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. Staff don’t always have all the answers, but they hope to help families to work out how to find them!

  • 1:1 support

  • Thematic group work including reading, play skills, social and communication.

  • Reading groups

  • Play skills group.

  • P7 Transitions

  • Non-attendance support

  • Food support

  • Cranhill

  • Oakwood

  • St Benedicts

  • Sunnyside

Holiday Programme

There will be holiday clubs running within St Rose of Lima Primary School and Oakwood Primary School and FAREPlay Stepford targeting 200 individual children each day across each of the premises. There will be various fun, physical and educational activities provided alongside breakfast, hot three course lunch and snacks. This programmer integrates young people from a number of local local primary schools. Within the sessions we will have inflatable fun, arts and crafts and themed activity days.

The holiday programme delivered by FARE has successfully been carried out for a number of years. Feedback shows that it tackles financial pressures, food poverty and depression caused by these pressures within families. The programme doesn’t only work with children who are entitled to free school meals, it works with families who are currently living on the breadline and are suffering from, in work poverty, whether or not they are single or cohabitating parents. As part of the programme we keep registers of young people attending and we capture individuals who are subjected to holiday hunger and look at the engagement of them in the programme. Activities provided within the sessions are delivered to keep young people engaged, which then ensures they are accessing the food service attached to the programme. FARE have a media team who work with the young people and gather footage of evidence of the impact of the service. Each programme will have a short film made showing the impact the service has on them and the community.

The overall programme, allows vulnerable young people a safe place where they can have fun, learn and access food. For the wider community this programme relieves financial pressures on parents/carers and allows families living in poverty to enjoy the holiday periods knowing that the pressures of feeding their children has been lifted

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