Creative Scotland Crowdmatch has provided £25 of match funding
Help Offline build accessible toilets
Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
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Aim
Help Offline — Govanhill's artists' film space — build accessible toilets. Every £1 raised is matched by Creative Scotland!
We make and screen artists' moving image. And we need better toilets.
Offline is a charity-run arts organisation in Govanhill, on Glasgow's Southside. We are one of Scotland's only spaces dedicated to the production and exhibition of artists' moving image, commissioning new work, supporting artists at every stage of making, and bringing bold, challenging, urgent film to audiences who might never otherwise encounter it.
We work with artists from Glasgow, across Scotland, the UK and internationally. We commission new films. We give artists paid mentorship opportunities. We programme experimental cinema, archival rarities, and community screenings in a converted warehouse on Niddrie Road. We've been doing it in local parks, community spaces and in abandoned buildings since 2018.
This is the only space of its kind in the southside of Glasgow. And right now, the single biggest barrier to making it everything it should be is unglamorous but super important: our toilets. We have one sh*t one for the entire building.
What Offline does
Artists' moving image - video art, experimental film, artists' cinema - is one of the most vital and least accessible forms of contemporary art. It rarely gets shown in cinemas. It rarely gets shown anywhere. Offline exists to change that, in one of Glasgow's most culturally diverse and underserved neighbourhoods.
We commission new work from artists, supporting them through production all the way to exhibition. We've brought internationally acclaimed artists to Govanhill and given local artists the resources and mentorship to make ambitious new work. This year, for Glasgow International, we are co-commissioning an exciting new film by celebrated British artist Michelle Williams Gamaker — and showing it in a full installation in our warehouse.
We also programme beyond our own commissions: Powell and Pressburger seasons, political and activist cinema, community film nights, international titles — films you simply cannot see elsewhere in the city, brought into the Southside.
What we're asking for
We need to raise £17,000 to complete a new toilet block, designed by architects New Practice, and structural engineers, giving us:
♿ 1 fully wheelchair accessible toilet — so that every screening, gallery exhibition and artist residency we hold is genuinely accessible to wheelchair users
🚪 2 fully enclosed, private cubicle toilets — clean, comfortable, and something we're proud of
🍼 baby changing facilities — so that parents and carers can come
Right now, we have just one (barely) functioning toilet. That limits how many people we can welcome at any one time, and it means wheelchair users cannot access our space fully. For a venue that commissions and presents work dealing with identity, representation and access it's not fit for purpose.
The best bit! EVERY £1 YOU GIVE BECOMES £2
Thanks to Creative Scotland's Crowdmatch scheme, every pound donated is matched by Creative Scotland £1 for £1 — up to £250 per donation. Your £20 becomes £40. Your £50 becomes £100. This is a genuinely rare opportunity to double the impact of your contribution to artists' film in Scotland.
What our community says
Why people come to Offline:
"Really great programming, really interesting pairing of new moving image work with a classic... it's so nice to have things like this locally. I often don't have the energy to travel far so it makes it so much more accessible to me." — MERLODRAMA Festival audience member
"Really hope for a dedicated Southside cinema — a unique place that supports dialogue, interrogation between films and film makers over stretches of time and beyond canon. I do not see anything else like it anywhere in Glasgow." — MERLODRAMA Festival audience member
"Just really enjoyed it being in the audience. Great day. Lovely food + great people + fantastic films." — MERLODRAMA Festival audience member
What people are asking for:
"Wheelchair accessible including toilets, comfortable seats, somewhere to hang out before and after the film!" — Neighbourhood Cinema survey respondent
"Decent toilets, somewhere clean and comfortable. Films I can't see anywhere else." — Neighbourhood Cinema survey respondent
How the money will be used
The full cost of the new toilet block is £17,000, covering materials, construction, moving some walls and installation, scoped and designed by a professional architect and structural engineer. Every penny goes directly to the build. With Creative Scotland's match funding, if we raise £8,500 from supporters, we reach our target — but every additional pound raised goes further still.
Timing
This is a key and essential part of wider improvements we are making to the venue in response to audience feedback. It’s being transformed from a moldy, cold set of disused offices to a fully functional cinema and exhibition space that will programme work, host residencies and provide a much needed independent affordable, accessible arts space - that's also nice to be in. Our aim is to reopen the venue in Winter 2026 - transformed! This is now finally possible having negotiated a long term lease with our landlords, we have more security.
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There is nowhere else in the south of Glasgow doing this work. Help us keep doing it and make sure everyone can be part of it.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 26th August 2026 at 3:21pm