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About Castlehill

We began working alongside the community in Castlehill in November 2016, and has involved:

Connections

Delivering engagement activities with local schools exploring how children feel about their community.

New activities

Supporting a group of local parents to form a community events group and deliver community activities. Introduced a Family Walking Group and run several other activities.

Partnership working

Working with Foodshare to deliver cooking on a budget sessions for local community.

Physical space

Supporting community-led environmental improvements and the development of community activities.

Community map

Castlehill by Corra Foundation

In this interactive map, you can explore the area of Castlehill and some of the areas important to the community.

Dalreoch Primary School and St Michael’s Primary School

Leven Valley Enterprise Centre

The Mony (Castlehill Memorial Park)

Knowetop (horticultural and wildlife project)

Phoenix Community Centre

What’s been happening?

Castlehill

Annual Update 2022 Snapshot

It has been an exciting year with the focus on bringing the community together, building relationships, creating spaces and opportunities. To do this we worked with a variety of partners and community members to create these spaces to support the community connect post pandemic.

  • Empowering women’s group – The group is a space for women to come along, be together to share their thoughts, feelings and look at ways to build confidence , build social relationships and have fun.
  • Dumbarton West Community Action Group – The group is in a development stage of creating consultation approaches that would support the community to connect, share views and contribute to the development of an action plan for the community.
  • Connecting the community – Throughout the year we have been working with a number of partners to bring the community together through a variety of events and creating new opportunities for community participation.
  • Community Space – Developing space and making it available and accessible for community activity.

Get Involved

Community Co-ordinator: Janice O’Connor

Corra will continue to support the development of community space within Levenvalley to bring to life the ideas of community members, some which are being developed through a further phase of Comic Relief, community-led grantmaking. This will see £17,000 of funding come into the community with a real focus on mental health and wellbeing.

Further reading and related content

group of people on a community walk about in Castlehill

Community Conversations in Castlehill

image of dinosaur puppet performance with the text ' Castlehill Annual update 2022'

Castlehill Annual Updates 2018-2022