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| Member profile
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In each newsletter we highlight the work of one of our members.
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Since 2005, ScotRail has been partnering with community groups and charities all over Scotland to rejuvenate and transform many of our railway stations. There are more than 1200 volunteers contributing to their local communities in a variety of different activities and projects – from community classes to station adopters. Our ‘adopt a station’ volunteering programme has seen over 260 stations get a makeover and reclaim their traditional role as a centre point of the community and a source of real local pride.
One of our partners, Phoenix Futures Scotland, who deliver drug and alcohol recovery services, is involved in eight station regeneration projects across the country.
In 2020, just before the first national lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Phoenix’s Scottish Residential Service ‘adopted’ Anniesland station in the north of Glasgow, in order to refashion Anniesland’s garden area.
It’s an ambitious project made all the more challenging due to COVID-19 restrictions, which meant the volunteers were unable to visit the station between March and September.
However, plans were laid, seeds and bulbs were grown and when the rules were relaxed in September, the work began. |
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