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Further Development of Redlees

Community Links are continuing to work with the local community, South Lanarkshire Council and other partners to refurbish the World War Two 6 gun anti aircraft battery and military support base at Redlees Urban Fringe Park. The site was built to protect Glasgow and the wider Clyde estuary. The military base, known as the ‘Whins’, was used to garrison the battery's British and Polish troops.

The anti aircraft battery will be a focal point for the park sitting centrally at the link of several new footpaths. The vantage point overlooking the site will also display researched and interpreted information on the site and its past. This, combined with the use of the site for school and community heritage works, will be ongoing with future generations of children using the site to gain an appreciation of both natural and social history.

A detailed map of the new footpaths and refurbishment is available here or at Blantyre Library.

NHS Lanarkshire Needs You

Community Links work in partnership with NHS Lanarkshire and we would appreciate if you could take this opportunity to give your opinion and help shape the future delivery of the Breast Screening service in Scotland.

Fill in the NHS Public Consultation document. Alternatively an online survey is available at www.breastscreeningconsultation.scot.nhs.co.uk until 11th June 2012.

NHS Lanarkshire are also organising a soundingboard event to discuss their 'No Smoking' policy on NHS Grounds and are keen to hear your views.

To attend the event - taking place on Wednesday 25th April at Wishaw General Hospital from 10.00am until 12.00pm - please contact Alison McCutcheon at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or on (01698) 858111 or take the No Smoking Survey here.

Local Legacy at the Loop

Clyde Gateway, working in partnership with Community Links and Forestry Commission Scotland, will develop a piece of land in the Rutherglen area of South Lanarkshire know as "Cunnigar Loop". Lying in a distinctive loop in the River Clyde opposite the Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village, Cunnigar Loop has the potential to become an exciting, lasting legacy of the 2014 Games.

Proposed as an Active Living destination, the site will provide local communities and visitors with access to good-quality green space and the opportunity to take part in sport and health-promoting activities. In addition, the project will remove this area of land from the Vacant and Derelict Land Register as it is transformed from its current brownfield status into permanent green space that will complement and enhance the surrounding communities of Dalmarnock and Rutherglen.

Community Links full consulation is avaiable to read on our consulation page.

For more details, contact the Forestry Commission Scotland at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or on (0131) 334 0303.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding anything on our site then please feel free to email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone (01698) 827583.

Big Lottery Fund has launched a new funding programme aimed at young people.

The Young Start Fund will be available to 3^rd sector (voluntary) organisations and will be funded from the proceeds of dormant accounts. Grants from £10,000 - £50,000 will be available for projects that work with children and young people aged 8 – 24 years old. Projects can be funded for up to two years provided they work around confident, healthy, connected and enterprising subject areas.

For more details click on http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/youngstartfund or call 03001237110