Hub Groups Blog Posts

- Land in Our Hands In December 2025, Polmont Community Hub and its land successfully completed the community asset transfer process. This milestone marks a significant achievement, as community ownership of the land is phenomenal. The purchase of the hub and its land was funded by the Scottish Land Fund, and our community is now ready to transform it. We formed a group called Land in Our Hands, which consists of our community's gardenisers and growers, to connect our community with our land as a means to achieve food security, climate justice, and land justice. All our groups at the hub believe that a healthy environment and a stroll among nature should be accessible to everyone. The council designed our field with large stretches of grass, manicured lawns, and playing fields. However, these areas are now considered biodiversity deserts due to their uniform monoculture nature, which supports little species diversity and requires extensive maintenance with chemicals and water. Our ...

  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...