The Circles · C-11
Glasgow Circle
A city circle organised around a kitchen and a fortnight's worth of meals at a time.
- Place
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Recognised
- 1996
- Affiliated house
- Fell House
- Assigned steward
- Callum Frier
- Convener
- Shazia MahmoodBus depot supervisor. Term began 2025; second and final consecutive year.
- Ordinary meeting
- Weekly, Monday evenings
- Typical attendance
- 17 to 24
- Access
- Open to visitors
Local history
Provisional 1995, recognised 1996 after a review attended by a steward from Karst House. The meal work began in 2002 and has changed hands within the circle four times without changing its shape.
The outward obligation
Food
Hospital discharge meals, held with a district nursing team.
Prepared meals for people living alone in the fortnight after a hospital discharge. Referrals come from the nurses; the circle does not solicit them.
The forms it carries
The Quiet Twelve
Twelve minutes are kept before the reading. Nothing is assigned to the silence.
The Repair Table
A table, a bench, or a marked shelf where ordinary objects wait to be mended.
Also attached to Fell House
- Edinburgh Circle · Edinburgh
- Carlisle Circle · Carlisle, Cumbria
- Newcastle Circle · Newcastle upon Tyne
- Belfast Circle · Belfast
Elsewhere in Europe
- Ljubljana Circle · Karst House
- Trieste Circle · Karst House
- Graz Circle · Karst House