News
1st February 2023
Community Creations: a photography exhibition with a sustainable side
See and learn about Sofia Conti's latest exhibition, Return, O Backsliding Children, which has a story to tell through both the photographs and the sourcing of her exhibition materials.
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5th October 2022
The Glasgow Wood Photo Challenge
The #glasgowwoodphotochallenge continues! We're aiming to encourage the community to build and share their amazing creations with us with the hope of motivating and inspiring each other. And if you're not a maker, we still welcome photos of you with your Glasgow Wood purchases! Ends 27th October at 5pm.
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27th September 2022
Grow 73: busy growing produce, building their community and hosting part of the relay to COP27 in Egypt
Learn more about the work of Grow 73, a community garden in Overtoun Park, who have been developing their growing opportunities for the local community using timber and growing equipment from Glasgow Wood. Last year their Bee Line project was featured in a special Countryfile episode, and they’re also hosting 1/732th of the COP27 relay going all the way to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt!
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1st July 2022
Wood Collections: from COP26 exhibition stands to potato planters at Hillhead High School
Take a look at the full journey of some raised bed planters and wood collections made from COP26, as the students at Hillhead High School transform them into potato planters.
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28th April 2022
A workshop with Impact Arts making planter boxes
Janet and Jack recently went over to visit the Craft Café in Govan to host a planter box building workshop. Once they knew how to use the tools, they quickly whipped together an incredible 50 boxes from reclaimed timber. Check out the finished planters here, incredible mosaic patterns and all!
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25th February 2022
Community Creations: Kath’s Flooring Restoration and our Wood Collections service explained
Kath visited us last September on recommendation from a neighbour. Having built a new office/studio space in her garden, she was in need of a more affordable and environmentally friendly solution to purchasing brand new flooring. Luckily we had something which had recently been dropped into our timber yard which did the job...
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7th December 2021
Community Creations: Mohammed’s Reclaimed Timber House
Made from approximately 60-70% reclaimed timber, Mohammad has been sourcing much of the wood he needed to build his house from our timber yard. Take a look at his progress so far.
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30th October 2021
Sustrans’ Pocket Places: Kilbarchan Primary School
As part of the community project Pocket Places, we were asked to design a unique bench to make the daily commutes of parents and children a little brighter and more enjoyable.
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