George Steven Community Hub Kilbirnie

12/06/2026

As it has been The Great Big Green Week 🍃💚🍏🥦 our community choices programme have been working hard this week learning about the environment and appreciating the world around us. Our cooking group discussed reducing food waste when cooking by using leftover ingredients to come up with recipes instead of sourcing new items at the shop.
We made plant pots out of recycled plastic and bunting from recycled clothing.
Some also took part in a nature walk in the local community using a scavenger hunt to discover plants, trees and flowers etc. By exploring and valuing nature we can better understand the importance of protecting habitats, supporting wildlife and caring for our planet for future generations.

‘The earth is the Lords, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.’ Psalms 24:1.

12/06/2026

Salad boxes available starting from £2.50 at our Hope cafe, pop down between 10am & 2pm we are open Wednesday to Friday 🥰

12/06/2026

Project Complete – And What a Journey It’s Been! 🌟
After 3 years and numerous phases, today we proudly completed our Amey South West Trunk Roads Employability Project at The Salvation Army United Kingdom and Ireland Territory George Steven Community Hub Kilbirnie 🙌

What started as a “small” job (or so we thought!) - groundworks and the er****on of a polytunnel - has grown into two fully successful employability projects delivered with Employment Plus and students from Garnock Community Campus 👏

This year was extra special 💙
We welcomed back two students from last year who stepped up as supervisors, encouraging, mentoring, and inspiring the next group of participants 🌱

Before even stepping on site, all students:
✅ Applied and interviewed for their roles
✅ Gained accredited training in Health & Safety, Lifting & Carrying, and COSHH

A huge thank you to ARCO for supporting us with all the necessary PPE - keeping our team safe every step of the way 🦺

🚧 This week’s onsite work:
Our fantastic team and Amey South West Trunk Roads got stuck in over 3 days:
🔨 Lifting slabs
📏 Framing areas
⚖️ Levelling surfaces
🛣️ Laying tarmac
And learning to use tools like jackhammers, whackers, and wheelbarrows, while understanding dust suppression, hot materials, and the importance of PPE

💪 Blisters were earned, muscles were built and confidence soared!

✨ Today, on the final day, we saw so much more than a finished project:
🤝 New friendships
📈 Growing confidence
🚀 New career ambitions

🙏 Thank you to everyone involved:
Amey for donating time, team, and materials
University of the West of Scotland for supporting students with guidance on Graduate Apprenticeships 🎓
ARCO for helping us work safely

🌟 And a very special thank you to Claire Graham who sparked this entire journey from a chance conversation 3 years ago. We couldn’t have done it without you!

It’s been incredible, rewarding, emotional, and I’ve loved every minute ❤️

12/06/2026

This week we celebrated our support worker Ellen’s 60th birthday. We celebrated a little early as she is off to celebrate in the sunshine in true Ellen fashion 🤣☀️ we hope she has a fabulous time away and likes all her cards & presents 🥰🥳

10/06/2026

Our hope cafe specials for this week, we are open Wednesday to Friday. 10am until 2pm 😆 see you soon! 🍰🍔🍌🥔

08/06/2026

Well she’s only gone and done it! 🥳🏆🎉👏🏻

Our very own Caroline Kennedy won the volunteer of the year award organised by Project Kilbirnie.

Caroline has been with us for nearly 4 years here at The George Steven Community Hub where she volunteers with our community choices programme working with our service users in their day service programme.
Whether it’s craft making, sewing, drama, baking or singing MY LIGHTHOUSE 🎶🎵🎤 Caroline is by their side every step of the way, even leading some of her own groups recently which has been amazing to see as Caroline’s confidence grows and her passion and dedication shines through.
Caroline also volunteers with our Music man project Scotland where she supports our service users to learn new songs, play instruments and practice makaton. 🪇🥁

Everyone needs a Caroline in their life, we’re very grateful to have ours ❤️🥰
A big well done to all of the finalists as they are all selfless, kind people that deserve to be recognised for all their hard work👏🏻

08/06/2026

Our charity shop is open Monday to Friday 9.30am until 3:30pm ☺️ we have new items in weekly so pop down and grab a bargain this week!

04/06/2026

03/06/2026

This week so far our community choices group has enjoyed making homemade sausage rolls using our cooking stations. The smell around the building was delicious 🤌🏻 everyone enjoyed rolling pastry, mixing up their filling as well as chopping onions, egg washing and putting in the oven - final results were 10/10 👏🏻

Our retail champions group were also kept busy going through new donations for our charity shop where they priced, tagged and steamed these items and were serving customer’s - learning how to use the til and card machine as well as packing up the bags 💷💳

03/06/2026

Specials this week in our Hope Cafe, we are open Wednesday to Friday 10am - 2pm ☺️