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The first Monday in June marks the beginning of Volunteers’ Week celebrations, which is an annual national campaign organised by Volunteer Scotland. This initiative started in 1984 to recognise, celebrate, and express gratitude to volunteers across the country. Volunteers’ Week focuses on thanking those individuals who significantly impact their local communities, support various causes and charities, and assist others in need. At the start of May, the unpaid volunteers who handle most of the work at the hub, reflected that it has now been two years of very intense work completed by the volunteers here. The end of June will see the end of our second financial year, the volunteer hours put in by some is immeasurable. The management team has been selecting a "Volunteer of the Month" since the inception of our newsletter, yet they have never recognised themselves with this title. In preparation for Volunteers’ Week, the management team organised several volunteer events, pro...

May 2026 hub news The first week of May brought added stress. Getting the newsletter out is a challenging task for our already overstretched volunteers. April's newsletter was successfully distributed in time for our screening of the emergency briefing and the upcoming elections. This achievement was the result of a lot of hard work to ensure the newsletter was ready before the emergency briefing and the elections. We attracted some new members to the Hub at the screening. Throughout May and now into June, we continued filling pots with soil, planting, and giving away sunflowers. We also had several interesting meetings with an organisation called CitizenCoin during May, which is an ongoing process. On Thursday, May 7th, we served as a polling station, which turned out to be a very intriguing experience for our volunteers. More details about that are shared in this different blog post. We had to cancel line dancing and Highland dancing that day since they required the large h...

May the 1st 2026 at the hub May Day distress call Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications. It is typically used to indicate a life-threatening emergency by aviators, mariners, and local organisations like firefighters, police forces, and transportation organisations. Although Polmont Community hub is no longer in anywhere near the state of emergency it faced three years ago, when the hub escaped an extremely close extinction threat, Our Mayday distress call now in 2026 is no longer life threatening as it was in 2023, because by mayday 2024 our volunteers heard that distress call, these emergency responders answered as we all should in the event of an emergency - they took action to save the hub, by 2025`s mayday call it was to help these same hub volunteers become smart meters, as they kept the lights on and doors open while not getting into debt in the run up to getting the money to acquire the asset fr...