Sunday 21 December 2014

Yes Provan Awards Ceremony

The Yes Provan Awards Ceremony was held on Friday 19th December at Carntyne and Riddrie Credit Union. The Ceremony was put together and presented by Anne McLaughlin, on the left of most pictures. Awards were presented by either Humza Yousaf MSP or leading Yes campaigner and birthday girl, Amanda Shields. Everyone else pictured is an award recipient.
Allan Casey is the winner of the Bob the Builder Award for Services to Manly Stuff!
(Allan as well as campaigning non stop, is a joiner (a tough looking joiner according to one journalist and much to our amusement). He fitted out the Yes shop for us to an extremely high standard and basically fixed anything that needed fixing. He was also pretty good at driving the Ayes Cream Van!_
Cath Ferguson and Derek Wilson win the 'P*** Artist Awards for Services to Pavement Art Whilst under the Influence (they were painting Yes signs and chose the pavement as their base!

Fraser Leith wins The Last Penny Award for Services to Saving Every Last One! (He kept such a great watch on our finances we were able to donate nearly £500 to foodbanks at the end of the campaign)

Garry MacDonald wins 'Allo Allo Award for Services to Comedy' Garry starred in a French News Broadcast - see it here!

Gazala Akram was nominated by her niece and nephew for the Award for OCD Applied to Newspaper Folding. (She cracked the whip with the wee ones to make sure the Yes newspapers were folded exactly right!)


Graham Campbell was not only a great campaigner for Yes Provan and Africans for Indy but he is the partner of Anne McLaughlin (Left) one of our Co-ordinators. So he got the Dennis Thatcher Award for Putting up with Anne!

John Allan got the Award for the Best Response to a No Voter. Allan Casey (2nd from right) recounted how a No Voter shouted across to John, 'you're English and you're voting Yes?' to which John replied in his Wigan accent 'I might be English but I'm not ****ing Stupid!'

Ken Taylor (along with his team Bill Davidson and Lillian Blanco) won the Award for Indefatigability in the Face of 100,000 Yes Papers to Deliver. (Ken lead a team of retired members who originally went out every morning, building up to every morning AND afternoon and eventually adding on a few nights a week too! )

Paul Burns pictured is picking up the Best Legs Award for which he nominated Mark Coburn aka Indycylist. Mark cycled round Europe to raise money for the Yes campaign. When he got back he spotted lots of local groups with not enough money so he cycled round Scotland to rasie more. He gave us £500. Then he came out night after night to campaign with us. Always in cycling shorts, thus the Best Legs!

Martin Monaghan, also convener of Cabbies for Yes, wins the Spielberg Award for
In Yer Face Filming and Photography in a Real Life Documentary Situation!
(We have fantastic documentation as a result.)

Mary McCabe wins the Lone Ranger Award for Indefatigability in the Face of Missing Activists. (A handful of us started campaigning regularly early in 2013 but sometimes the only person who turned up was the organiser. Mary was one of them and one day, when nobody turned up, she leafleted tenements alone for 3 hours!! All she got as thanks was the flu!)

Sheena Stephen won the Bridging the Gap Award for Keeping Everyone Happy!
(Sheena lives on the border of Provan and Springburn and both teams were vying for her help. So she split her time between both constituencies which meant she barely had a minute to herself.)

The Best Losers Award for Indefatigability in the Face of a No Vote went to (L to R)
Kevin Peden, Chris Crawford, Anne McLaughlin, David Houston, Michelle Leonard, Amanda Shields & Mhairi Love
who, along with others, since losing the vote, have organised 3 car cavalcades, 3 public meetings, 3 organising meetings, 8 leafleting sessions, 6 street stalls!!!

The Coolest Team Award went to these guys who from January 2014 campaigned EVERY Wednesday night. Because of their enthusiasm the numbers built up and we often had 15 plus out campaigning on a Wednesday because people knew it would be fun. This core team of Wednesday Warriors set the tone for the campaign that lead to us recruiting massive numbers of activists and securing the highest Yes majority in Glasgow. They are, L to R
John Allan, Martin Monaghan, Louisa Graham, Cath Ferguson, Allan Casey, Anne MClaughlin,
Gazala Akram, Amanda Shields and Graham Campbell

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Willie Douglas lives and campaigns in the Pollok Constituency and still, for two years, he also campaigned in Provan. We recognised him and  respected actress Alison Peebles also from the Southside, also very active in our campaign in the East End with the Rough Guide to the East End Award for crossing the city 
Normally folk from the West End get the shakes if they leave and head to the East of the city! Louisa Graham got fed up waiting for a chance to campaign in her native West End and walked to Dennistoun one cold dark January night. She must've liked us because she carried on doing it all year upping it to 2 days a week. Louisa shares the award with Joe Brady who couldn't be with us but is another worthy winner. Joe is a fellow Westender and he got involved a little later in the campaign - a month before the referendum. But when he got involved, he really did. He travelled over EVERY single DAY for that month and definitely deserves the award.


Saturday 20 September 2014

THANKS to all our volunteers & supporters!!


The co-ordinators of YES Provan would like to thank ALL our volunteers & supporters for the massive amount of support that we received throughout our campaign.

At our social evening last night, we have vowed to keep this grass-roots group of people together and plan to hold regular meetings to shape the political future of Provan(and we will at least keep our vow!) - more information will follow shortly.

Once again, a BIG thanks from us!


Anne, Garry, Mary & Cath

Tuesday 16 September 2014

ONLY days to go until the Independence Referendum!!




There are now just a couple of DAYS until the polls open for the Independence Referendum, and we have this once in a lifetime opportunity to change Scotland's future!

We (the friendly faces you see above) want you to join us in making history. Every day new people come into the Yes rooms and just get stuck in like they've been there for months - don't be afraid to walk in, you will be welcomed with open arms.

The momentum is with YES, and we need to keep that momentum going in order to achieve a high turnout for a YES vote on 18th September 2014.

In the final few days we need your help to

Deliver letters to Yes supporters;
Speak to undecideds from our Ayes Cream Van;
Stand at a polling place on polling day;
Visit supporters on polling day to encourage them to vote.

You won't be on your own doing any of this (unless you want to be).

So please come into the Yes campaign hub at 25 Hillfoot Street in Dennistoun from 10am to 9pm any day this week and we will have something for you to do.

If you would like more information on the above, please contact Anne McLaughlin on anne@yesprovan.info or call her on 07729 858 157.

Monday 15 September 2014

The Margo Mobile

What a fantastic day!












The Ayes Cream Van

We were unable to find a suitable site for an information hub in Easterhouse but we desperately wanted to have somewhere people in that area could easily go to ask questions. So we got ourselves an ice cream van, now renamed the Ayes Cream Van.

We take it round the various housing schemes in Greater Easterhouse and at the weekends we pop into the city centre. It has gone down a storm and allowed us to engage with hundreds of people who had questions but hadn't yet found somewhere to ask them. 

Look out for our Ayes Cream Van and feel free to flag us down if you have any questions or if you want posters, badges or T shirts. 






Sunday 6 July 2014

Our YES Provan Shop opens on Monday 7th July 2014



25 Hillfoot Street
Dennistoun
Glasgow
G31 2LD 

Our current opening times are:-

10am to 9pm

So why not pop along and see us!






The front of the shop nearly completed.









Wednesday 25 June 2014

YES Provan now have a shop !


We at YES Provan now have a shop! 

Update Thursday 3rd July

Our shop is opening on Friday night !

Official opening of the YES Provan Shop, with Humza Yousaf MSP performing the honours.

Everyone is welcome to come along at 6:30pm for 7pm and help us celebrate our achievement and bring a bottle!

For more info contact: Garry MacDonald garry@yesprovan.info




New hand crafted signs put up Tuesday 1st July.






YES Provan Shop, 
25 Hillfoot Street,
Dennistoun, 
Glasgow 
G31 2LD 







On Monday 23rd June, YES Provan agreed a deal on a shop for the next three months, to provide us with a campaign base, but also so that we can connect with the people in the YES Provan area.

Please also check out the 'Our Shop' tab for a list of items required.

If you wish to donate money to help with the cost of running our shop, we would be extremely grateful for any amount that you can afford. Please contact Garry MacDonald garry@yesprovan.info, to arrange this.