The Wayside Club Centre has been responding to the needs of people affected by poverty and social exclusion since the 1930s. Our mission is to assist in the prevention and alleviation of homelessness and to promote social inclusion through the delivery of a range of person-centred services.
The Wayside Club Centre exists to provide a safe environment that people affected by homelessness can use during the day to meet their self-identified needs. It aims to meet basic needs and to provide resources that enable people to make responsible choices which will serve to enhance the quality of their lives.
The Wayside Club Centre provides both day and evening services. Last year (2006/7), 1,850 individuals used the day centre. For further details of the centre's work, please view our Annual Report 2006 (626kB PDF) .
23 April 2008: Congratulations to everyone involved in producing 'Wayside Stories'. In partnership with Urban Learning Space, service users have recorded brief videos of some of their own stories, meditations and dramas which you can view by clicking on http://www.story-box.co.uk/submitted.php?user=WaysideStories.
26 March 2008: The day centre has just published its most recent newletter. Please click here to read the newsletter (592kB PDF).
26 March 2008: The day centre this week launches its supporting volunteering initiative which provides service users with opportunities to volunteer at the centre while receiving coaching and mentoring as means of support. For further details, please contact Frances Downie or Lorraine Thomson at the project on (0141) 221-0169.
13 March 2008: Fr Hugh McGinlay, Assistant Priest at St Andrew's Cathedral Glasgow and Chaplain to the day centre sadly died on 13th March 2008 at the Marie Curie hospice in Springburn, Glasgow.

Fr Hugh had worked as Chaplain at the day centre since 2004 providing pastoral support to service users and staff and promoting the day centre and its work at a wider level. Hugh brought a remarkable ability to touch people's lives to his work at the centre. He listened empathically to those he worked with and in sharing his own story and vulnerabilities and his humour with us, he brought inspiration and hope to the Wayside. He will be sadly missed.