SiMY Community Development

05/10/2026

🌱 WE'RE HIRING: FUNDRAISING & PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER

At SiMY we believe that all young people and their families should have the chance to live life to the full.

For over 26 years, we have provided Space to Breathe and Room to Grow for young people and their families, as well as opportunities to try new things, spend time outdoors, be creative, build confidence and make lasting positive changes for themselves, their families and their communities.

We’re looking for a Fundraising & Partnerships Officer to help us build the financial foundations that make this work possible.

You’ll lead our trusts and grants fundraising, develop corporate partnerships and help us build a stronger, more diverse and sustainable income pipeline.

This is a new role, so you’ll have the opportunity to shape how fundraising develops at SiMY — working closely with our CEO and programme team and seeing the direct impact of your work.

📍 Speirs Wharf, Glasgow | Hybrid
🕐 2 days per week, highly flexible hours
📅 18-month fixed-term contract
💚 35 days annual leave (pro rata)
✨ Flexible working and Wisdom Wellbeing benefits

If you’re a confident fundraiser who can build relationships, write compelling applications and spot opportunities, we’d love to hear from you.

👉 Full job description and application details: https://app.pdf.net/edit/-WGOyJ4X6PIu4TvFWNagp

Thanks to UK Youth for funding this role

29/09/2026

We are really excited to launch SiMY's new website! 💻📱

👀 Check out www.simy.org.uk or click the link in our bio to see what we are all about!

Take a look around to learn more about what we do, who we are, who we work with, and how to support our work!

We are delighted with the outcome, which provides a fresh face to the work SiMY does today, and we want to say a huge thanks to AJD Digital who kindly donated the design and production of this website for free!

If you want to supoprt the work SiMY does, the 'Donate' button on our website takes you right through to our JustGiving page!

Onwards and upwards 😁😎

08/09/2026

💔 We’re deeply saddened and frustrated to be sharing this post, but we can’t ignore what has been happening at our community space in recent weeks. Just two weeks after its installation, our stained glass mural has been badly vandalised.

The Charles Rennie Mackintosh mural, which was created to highlight the rich cultural history of Townhead, represented countless hours of creativity, care and hard work from young people, staff, artists, and partner organisations. It also involved a significant financial cost for our small charity, around £1500 for materials, tools, and artists costs. This artwork should have lasted for years and years to come but sadly, the damage is likely beyond repair.

🚨We also want to make clear that the space is within view of CCTV from the MENA Centre, and incidents are being recorded.🚨

This is unfortunately not an isolated incident. Over the past few weeks, we have also had string lights intentionally cut and other acts of needless damage around the space.

When SiMY took over the lease of the former bowling greens we made a decision to keep the SiMY Grassroots garden an open space that local people can enjoy freely, including after working hours because we believe the community deserves to have somewhere welcoming, safe and accessible to enjoy. But repeated vandalism from a few individuals makes keeping the space open for everyone increasingly difficult.

We are asking whoever is responsible to please stop. Think about the people whose time, effort and creativity you are damaging, and the impact your actions have on a charity that works incredibly hard with limited resources and capacity to provide something positive for the whole community.

We hope this can be the end of the damage. We would much rather be spending our time and limited funds on creating opportunities for young people and improving the space for everyone, rather than repairing damage that should never have happened.

Please help us look after this space. It belongs to the community, and we want to keep it that way.

03/09/2026

Over the last few months, we have partnered with to allow a group of secondary young people to climb both indoors and outdoors.

During this programme, we have watched the young people grow in confidence and self-belief, while enjoying unique and special experiences together outdoors. It has been both humbling and beautiful to watch and has helped remind us, yet again, of the impact of providing young people with more opportunities to spend time in nature and engage in activities that help them to grow.

In this video, one of our regular attendees shares how this programme has impacted them, and to say it was an emotional watch for us is an understatement! Well done to everyone who took part in this programme; you all worked so hard, pushed yourselves and achieved so much. You should be really proud of yourselves!

Thanks to Flynn Smith for the beautiful film, and to for delivering the programme. To and Glenmore Lodge for hosting us.

Finally thanks to , .life and for funding our co-operation in this.

31/08/2026

24/08/2026

SiMY is holding it's annual general meeting at the Townhead Village Hall on the 9th of September between 2pm-4pm. This is a public meeting, so all are welcome.

Come along if you want to:
- Learn more about SiMY 🎓
- Meet the people who work to make all the activities at SiMY possible 👋
- Find out more about how you can help or get involved at SiMY 👥

We look forward to seeing you there!

18/08/2026

Here’s a sneak peak of some of the exciting things that have been happening at the SiMY Grassroots Garden over the last few weeks!

The hard work and creativity of the young people at SiMY, our staff, and the amazing artists and partners we’ve been working with, is really paying off with the installation of multiple murals and our new welcome arch! If you’ve not had a look yet why not pop down to Lister st in Townhead and see what we’ve been up to?

Huge huge thanks to Boomerang Woodworking for their amazing woodworking skills, to Caireen Stuart the stained glass artist who supported the making of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh mural, and Creative Bloc who helped us create the handmade tile mural.

And of course a big thank you to the funders who make this work possible in the first place Creative Scotland The National Lottery Community Fund

More info about each project and the finished results to follow so make sure you’re following us for updates.

18/08/2026

Here’s a snapshot of this year’s SiMY Summer Party captured beautifully for us by Flynn Smith . We had a fantastic turn out from the community this year and so much on offer. A big thank you to and the Commonwealth games festival fund for funding this year’s event, and to the Townhead community council and the Townhead village hall for stepping up at the last moment when it looked like we’d be rained off and supporting us to host the event there instead, it really does take a village sometimes!

Also a big shout out to and a visiting bagpipe group all the way from Texas for providing wonderful live performances, as well as creative workshops from and Glasgow musician Kenny Bates.

We hope to see even more of you next year! 🎉