Winter Support 2024
We’ve compiled bits of extra support available locally over the colder months. If you know of any other services or provisions that we should add to the list please email lottie@seinglasgow.org.uk.
Citywide Support
GCVS: Glasgow Festive Directory 24-25
Several services offering support, such as children’s gifts, food parcels, hot meals, advice and more, to families across Glasgow, click here for more info.Social bite Glasgow Emergency Provision Signposting
Document outlining available food, accommodation, and mental health support in Glasgow. Click here for more info.Emergency Numbers
0800 027 7466, Simon Community Scotland
Support for people rough sleeping.0141 287 0555, 0300 343 1505 (emergency outside office hours), Health and Social Care Connect
Social care support and advice in a crisis situation.
Food
Southside Housing Association: Mondays (10:00am - 12:00noon)
Residents Lounge (Ground Floor), Herriet Court, 37 Herriet Street, G41 2JY
Free breakfast. Click here for more info.Pollokshields Food Point: Mondays (3:00 - 5:00pm), throughout the holidays
423 Shields Road, Pollokshields, G41 1NY
A warm space and soup/tea.Common Thread Vision: Thursdays (3:00 - 6:00pm) from 9/01
Pollokshields Community Centre, 15 Kenmure St, G41 2NT
Lunch club - all welcome!Crossroads Youth & Community Association: Friday (12:30 - 2:30pm)
The Barn Youth Centre, 37 Abbotsford Place, Gorbals, G5 9QS
Soup and toasties for the community. Click here for more info.Food Not Bombs: Saturdays (12:30pm)
Corner of Dixon Avenue and Victoria Road
Free hot food, vegan and halal, open to all.Givin’ it Laldie: Wednesday 18/12 (7:00 - 8:30pm)
1 Errol Gardens, G5 0RA
Soup & Songs, all welcome. Click here for more info.Milk: Christmas Day (12:00 - 4:00pm)
Milk, 378 Cathcart Road, G42 7DF
Free Christmas Day meal, all welcome, vegan and halal options available. Click here for more info.
Warm Spaces
Finn’s Place: Monday - Thursdays (9:30am - 9:00pm), Fridays (9:30am - 12:30pm), closed 23/12 - 6/01
Finn's Place, Langside Church, 167 Ledard Road, Glasgow, G42 9QU
Warm space with tea/coffee.Pollokshields Food Point: Mondays (3:00 - 5:00pm), throughout the holidays
423 Shields Road, Pollokshields, G41 1NY
A warm space and soup/tea.Home-Start Glasgow South Castlemilk: Mondays (12:00 - 2:00pm), Thursdays (9:30am - 11:30am)
St. Margaret Mary's Church, 99 Dougrie Rd, Castlemilk, G45 9NT
Free to attend and open to local parents/carers and their children. Warm space with snacks and hot drinks. Click here for more info.Home-Start Glasgow South Pollokshaws: Tuesdays and Wednesdays (9:15am - 11:30am)
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow, G43 1NE
Free to attend and open to local parents/carers and their children. Warm space with snacks and hot drinks. Click here for more info.Local Libraries: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday (10:00am - 5:00pm), Tuesday, Thursday (10:00am - 8:00pm), closed 25/12, 26/12, 30/12 and 1/1
Local libraries are running Winter Warmers this year, free teas and coffees, all welcome. All are welcome in local libraries during opening hours. Click here for more info.Gorbals Library
180 Crown St, Gorbals, G5 9XD
Winter Warmer: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday (10:30am - 12:30pm), Tuesday (3:00 - 5:00pm), Thursday (5:00 - 7:00pm).Govanhill Library
170 Langside Rd, G42 7JU
Winter Warmer: Monday - Friday (10:00am - 2:00pm)Langside Library
2 Sinclair Dr, G42 9QE
Winter Warmer: Monday (11:00am - 1:00pm), Tuesday (10:00am - 7:45pm), Wednesday (2:00 - 4:00pm), Thursday (10:00am - 7:45pm), Friday (11:00am - 1:00pm), Saturday (11:00am - 4:30pm)Pollokshields Library
30 Leslie St, Glasgow G41 2LF
Winter Warmer: Monday - Friday (12:00 - 2:00pm)
Other Provisions
Clothing, bits & bobs
The Barn, Crossroads YCA, 37 Abbotsford Place, Gorbals, G5 9QS
People can grab anything they might need, only a limited selection of donations.Energy Advice
514 Victoria Road, Govanhill, G42 8BG
South Seeds have an energy advice service for anyone in the G41 or G42 area struggling with anything energy related. They also help with applications for the £150 warm home discount to help with winter energy bills which is now open. Contact details for energy suppliers will be displayed whilst South Seeds is shut. Click here to contact.