Hub Groups Blog Posts

  Polmont Community Hubs new land group`s Land in our hands Land in Our Hands is a collective of communities with land ownership, connecting our communities to the land as a means to achieve food security, climate justice, land and racial justice. Healthy food for all Land In Our Hands believes that healing relationships with nature and land is also about healing the land and working in sustainable, reciprocal and caring ways. we strive towards collective land stewardship as a means to support our communities to access nutritious, delicious food grown using ancestral, alongside modern, sustainable, regenerative, permaculture practices. We aim to utilise different agroecological practices in our growing spaces. We are passionate about learning Scottish indigenous farming practices which worked in harmony with the land. We believe in Agriculture not Agribusiness Since its founding in 2025, LIOH joined in fraternity with Polmont Community Hub and set out to collaborate with other grou...

  Sharing libraries We have been sharing resources with our community since the day we took over management. We share our space, our help, our knowledge and skills, and we want to formalise this more. Although our booking system works perfectly for hall rentals, we need to expand our other sharing libraries. Our tool library team made research visits to the Linlithgow Tool Library and transition Stirling's Library of Things, which helped expand our knowledge for our own sharing libraries. We are applying for additional support from the Community Learning Exchange to assist with various team visits. As members of the parent organisation, Circular Communities Scotland, we request endorsement, allowing us to share our experiences and foster collective growth and learning. We are affiliated with both Circular Communities Scotland and Social Enterprise Scotland concerning our various sharing libraries. And zero-waste initiatives The first sharing library we established focused on knowle...

  Volunteer of the Month On the second Wednesday of every month, the management team holds their meeting at the Hub. There is always a lot to discuss, including work priority lists, progress reports, and both new and ongoing projects. As part of these meetings, we introduced a vote for "Volunteer of the Month" to be featured in our monthly newsletter, recognising the outstanding contributions of our volunteers. For our inaugural newsletter, the team unanimously decided that there was no better candidate for the first "Volunteer of the Month" than Monty, our zero waste champion. Monty has dedicated more time than anyone else and has been spreading joy and kindness to people of all ages at the Hub since day one. The second nomination is Ena. While we are still developing a method to provide some form of accreditation to our volunteers, we welcome any ideas you may have. As our volunteer numbers continue to grow, we need to find effective ways to reward their hard work...