Royston Community

Welcome to Royston’s first dedicated website complete with social networking and forums to help build community online and offline. There’s going to be lots happening in the Royston area in the next year or so and this is a completely democratic way of getting your voice heard. The focus is Royston/Roystonhill/Blochairn, so if you’re not living in these areas or linked to them in some way, we’re glad to have you stopping by, but what we discuss here probably won’t be so interesting for you.

We’re just getting started, but for this to work we need people like you to create an account, join relevant groups and start participating in discussions in the forums. More details shortly. Write in the forum or message me if you have more ideas for this site.

Royston has been described as an online graveyard as so few people in the area have access to broadband. But do you think people maybe use the internet more on their mobile phones? Would you like to see a more mobile-friendly version of this site and others for the area? Please comment below.

Here’s an online version of the questionnaire that Copperworks and other Royston residents received at the end of September.

Check out the new ‘Making Contact’ group where Victoria’s asking about Margaret and Frederick Slater who used to live in Royston. Other people might want to get in touch through that group too. Make a comment, join the group and submit your own enquiries or help people get in touch.

An important announcement was made recently that could have a major impact on Roystonhill’s future:

Five Scottish communities benefit from targeted Lottery programme

The Bellsmyre area of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Moorpark in Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Newmains near Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, Roystonhill in North Glasgow and Greenock Central and East in Inverclyde are the five areas to benefit as the BIG Lottery Fund unveils a multi-million pound programme to help revive five communities in Scotland….

By now (July 2010) the contractors were supposed to be in place to start providing extra support and initial work was to start in April. This work involves finding out what projects are required in the local areas. Each area has to submit proposals suggesting what they would do with their slice of the £9m and by November 2010 ‘Development funding’ should be awarded to communities to fund the development of these plans. The final funding applications will be made in a year’s time (August 2011) and funding announced in November 2011. So while the final development may be some way off, it’s vital that Royston gets organised to work out what we could do with the money available.