"Our story is crafted by many people. It starts in one of the most deprived areas of Glasgow, where the GalGael grew from an environmental campaign. We lost the campaign but learned many things about how to make community in a difficult space; how to take responsibility, articulate our concerns and find common purpose.

We created GalGael as a vehicle to take forward what we’d learned and to move from being about what we didn’t want to what we did want. Colin Macleod, our founder, who we lost in 2005, was clear about this not being ‘setting up a charity’ but rather ‘reconvening peoplehood’. In that sense, we see ourselves as a community of creative people, who come together to co-operatively meet some of our needs: our shared need for acceptance; to learn and contribute our creativity." galgael.org