Cathcart, Merrylee and Muirend Community Council

06/08/2026

🎊 Summer Fete 🎊

In its fourth year, our summer fete has a new location, but you can still expect all the fun of previous years! Including FREE face painting, games, outdoor crafts, book swap, homebaking bring and buy* and more!

Donations for the local food bank are also welcome.

*If donating homebaking please do not include nuts

05/08/2026

FREE Chair Yoga this Thursday!

Join Aletia Crichton as she leads accessible community chair yoga in the Couper Institute.

After the amazing turnout at our Doors Open Day event last September, the Community Council are delighted to invite back Aletia and her chair exercise class this August. The sessions are open to all no matter what your level or ability, and will be held in the Auchincloss Room in the Couper Institue.

The 3 sessions will be held on:
Thursday 6th August at 18:15 - 18:45
Thursday 13th August at 18:15 - 18:45
Thursday 20th August at 18:15 - 18:45

FREE tickets available on eventbrite.co.uk: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/chair-yoga-sessions-4859172

01/08/2026

On your marks, get ready, go!

The Clarkston Road discovery trail starts today and runs until 15th August.

You can pick up an entry form from the Couper Library or download it here.

29/07/2026

👀 Summer Event - Clarkston Road Discovery Trail
1st - 15th August
Clarkston Road

A fun, free activity for families.
Something is amiss in the windows of our local businesses...

Take a walk up Clarkston Road and see if you can spot the unexpected items being displayed in the windows.

Competition forms detailing all the businesses taking part will be available to collect from the Couper Library from 1st August, or you can download here!

Return them to the Couper Library or by emailing [email protected] by 15th August detailing all the odd items you spotted for a chance to win a prize!

05/07/2026

Couper Institute - Public Consultation

Thanks to everyone who came along on Thursday 2nd July for the Reconnect Theatres public consultation session on the future of the Couper Institute. The proposal is to create a community theatre at the Couper Institute, as part of the People Make Glasgow Communities property leasing programme.

If you weren't able to attend last week, a second session is being held on Thursday 13th August at 7:30pm.

As part of the public consultation, Reconnect Theatres have also opened an online survey to gather the views of the public. Please complete the survey even if you attended or plan to attend one of the in-person sessions at the Couper.

Survey:
https://forms.gle/Nipdy6F9xiRMkMrm7

Next In-Person Consultation Session:
📍 The Couper Institute
📅 Thursday 13th August
⏰️ 7:30pm

04/07/2026

📢 SUMMER EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENT

The weather may be doing it's best to convince us it is NOT summer, but that hasn't stopped us from organising our summer events! Full details for each event will follow in the coming days and weeks, so mark the dates in your diary and keep an eye on our facebook/instagram for more details soon.

1 - 15 Aug - Discovery Trail, Clarkston Road

Sat 22 Aug - Summer Fete, Orchardlea Church

Dates TBC - Chair Yoga, Couper Institute

Sat 5 Sep - Micro Talks, Couper Library

17 & 19 Sep - Doors Open Day, Couper Institute

Sat 19 Sep - Film Screening, Couper Institute

01/07/2026

Planning application:

26/01131/FUL
3 Delvin Road Glasgow G44 3AB

Proposal: Use of former vehicle garage (Class 5) as studio space for music lessons (Class 10) and associated external
alterations

Deadline for comments: 27 July

21/06/2026

Couper Institute - Public Consultation

You might remember we’d been contacted by Pete Sneddon from Reconnect Theatres earlier this year. He is proposing to create a community theatre at the Couper Institute, as part of the People Make Glasgow Communities property leasing programme.

There will now be a public consultation on this proposal, and Pete has asked us to share the attached flyer about a consultation event on Thursday 2 July from 3-5pm at the Couper. We know this is a difficult time for working people and Pete assures us there will also be other events and a survey too, but do go along on the 2nd if you are able. We’ll have some of our community councillors there too, to hear more about Pete’s ideas.

📍 The Couper Institute

📅 Thursday 2nd July

⏰️ 3pm - 5pm

18/06/2026

Following our latest meeting on 10th June, the new Chair's Chat blog is now available. This month Carolyn talks about our upcoming summer events schedule that we're busy organising. Let us know if there's anything else you'd like to hear about!

Although the sun seems to have misplaced his hat, we are nevertheless in the summer season, and so last week Cathcart, Merrylee and Muirend Community Council held our final meeting before the holidays. As well as checking in on our campaign for a new pitch at Merrylee Primary and the proposal from R...

22/05/2026

Today we’re launching our new Chair’s Chat blog. After each of our Community Council meetings, our Chair Carolyn will share her reflections on what we’re up to and how people can get involved. This first blog covers the pitch at Merrylee Primary, changes at the Couper Institute and Carolyn’s deep and abiding love of local noticeboards. Let us know what you think!

I love community noticeboards. It’s a standing joke in my family that whenever we go somewhere new and spot a noticeboard, usually outside a library or town hall, I will be hopelessly drawn to it. Inevitably I’ll loiter for ages, happily perusing the latest community council minutes, adverts for...