THE Old School Thornhill (OST) celebrated its first birthday last week, with trustees dubbing the milestone ‘remarkable’.
The OST opened its doors last spring after being transformed into am eco-friendly venue for community events, creative performances, studios for a variety of tenants with its facilities including a community kitchen, co-working spaces, a youth engagement room and a community garden.
Since opening OST has played host to a number of community groups and initiatives such as the Thornhill Community Food Initiative, led by Zoe Roberts, which offers a pantry-style model to those who come along on Sundays to purchase subsidised or free food.
Commenting the success of the OST’s first year, chair of the board of trustees, Pat Kirby said, “It is a remarkable achievement to have gone in one year from a building with the paint barely dry to a fully functioning and exciting resource. Use of OST expands every week with new activities taking place. An example is our first Supper Club taking place this weekend, with catering provided by two local enterprising chefs. We are very proud of all that has been accomplished this year and excited to move forward into our second year.”
