It has been a busy six months for Glasgow Girls Club, the pioneering organisation which supports young women through creativity and the arts.
A permanent new home in Springburn, more national recognition for its work and plans for a family festival day to bring everyone together have all followed the group’s success at last year’s Glasgow Community Champion Awards.
The team was named Arts Champion at the 2025 event and founder Amy Rew says it meant “a great deal” to everyone at the club.
“We were so happy to be nominated and be there as finalists, with many young people who have been through our programme, but to win was quite overwhelming for us,” she says, smiling.
“Our work is often focused on what still needs to be done, so having a moment to stop and recognise how far we had come was so special for us.”
She adds: “It also felt lovely to have recognition for our whole team, partners, supporters and all the girls and young women who have helped shape Glasgow Girls Club over the years.”
The Glasgow Times, supported by Glasgow City Council, Allied Vehicles Charitable Trust and Glasgow Fort, recently launched the 2026 event. Entries are now open.
For more details on the categories and to complete the entry form, visit our website.
The closing date for entries is September 21.
The awards aim to recognise the city’s unsung heroes. There are 10 awards up for grabs this year: Community Champion, Champion Team, Sporting Champion, Green Champion, Health and Wellbeing Champion, Arts Champion, Young Champion (for secondary school pupils), Little Champion (for primary school pupils) and Senior Champion for anyone aged 60 or over, plus a special GT150 Anniversary Prize to mark our 150th anniversary, and to celebrate an individual or team’s “long service” to the city.
Celebrating years of commitment to volunteering, community action or social change, it honours those who have worked tirelessly to improve the lives of others.
Look out soon for exciting news regarding our Champion School of the Year prize – we are doing things a little bit differently for 2026. More details will be available in the coming weeks.
For Amy and the Glasgow Girls Club, winning a Glasgow Community Champion Award was a huge boost for the organisation.
“The award gave us encouragement at an important point in our journey,” she says. “The last six months have involved a lot of growth, new partnerships, and new ideas, while keeping girls and young women at the centre of everything we do.
“We have moved into a new permanent home in Springburn, which has given us more space to run activities, build relationships locally, and create a consistent welcoming base for girls and women in North Glasgow; and we have continued developing our programmes and toolkits which explore coercive control, healthy relationships, and how friends support one another.”
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Amy adds: “The resources have continued to reach schools, youth workers, community organisations and justice professionals, and we have also had opportunities to share the learning from the project more widely.”
The club’s free summer programme for 13 to 25-year-olds has been a huge success, providing young women somewhere welcoming to go, where they can develop self-esteem and a sense of community belonging, and the group received more recognition through the YouthLink Scotland Awards .
“That felt like another important acknowledgement for our team and the heart that goes into our work on a daily basis,” says Amy.
“We are also in the early stages of planning Love Louder, a community family day in Springburn at the end of September.
“We hope it will bring local people together through music, creativity, food and activities for families.”
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