Red Sunday School Glasgow

UPDATE: We've been blown away by the support shown for the Red Sunday School! Thank you so much to everyone who's shared and donated so far. You can still help us to reach our stretch goals: 

Goal 1: £2,000 REACHED

Goal 2: £3,000. This would allow us to provide membership packs to young people attending Red Sunday School, provide a meal with each session, and begin building up our radical lending library. 

Goal 3: £4,000. This would allow us to organise our first trips in 2022, by supporting food, travel and other costs for mountain trips. It would also allow us to design, print and distribute a Red Sunday School songbook. 

Hello! We are a group of activists, educators, parents, carers and cultural workers who, inspired by the history of the Socialist Sunday School movement, aim to re-establish a similar network of schools. The Red Sunday School will be a space for young people to think for themselves, play with freedom, question the world around them, and change it.

 

Organised on the principles of socialism and solidarity, the School will provide tools and resources for the creative exploration of nature, culture and society from a radical perspective, and encourage active participation in the great struggles of our day: anti-racism, the climate crisis, feminism, and the revolutionary transformation of capitalism.

 

From 1890 – 1980 Glasgow was one of the heartlands of the Socialist Sunday School movement, which aimed to ‘teach children to think for themselves, feel themselves part of the great community of workers, and supply the Socialist movement with fearless, capable and conscientious thinkers.’ In this tradition, Red Sunday School is a secular, non-party affiliated organisation. A committee exists to run a monthly socialist school for children, a community meal, a lending library of radical children’s literature, and trips to the countryside. The committee will eventually help form a children’s committee that is able to advise the school. We will initially run a series of monthly Sunday Schools from January to May 2022.

 

But we need your help! The Red Sunday School is volunteer run, and entirely reliant on donations of money and labour. To that end, we are looking to raise an initial £2000 to help get us up and running. This will help cover essential costs such as venue hire, web hosting, workshop materials, child protection compliance, food, and publicity. We are also keen to produce membership packs for kids and to create a radical lending library for children on the southside. We also want all of this to be provided to families on a pay-what-you-can basis.

 

If you want to see a new monthly Socialist Sunday School in Glasgow please dig deep and help out if you can!