The Heroes Centre

The Heroes Arts & Entertainment Centre

The Charity, Helensburgh Heroes, has secured a three storey Victorian Warehouse and goods yard within the centre of the Scottish West Coast town of Helensburgh.

A team of professionals has been created, tasked with the challenge of converting this former railway building into a much needed Arts & Entertainment Community facility for the local area. The Centre will cater for the needs of the entire community – from its youngest member to its oldest.

It is planned that the £1.75 million Art Deco themed Centre will operate throughout the year, and will contain two auditoriums capable of screening the latest in digital entertainment as well as providing performance areas, a 50s style themed diner, a chill out Wi-Fi zone, a conference area and an arts/education space.

Included within the fabric of the building will be a 'Hall of Fame', which will combine various elements of the Centre with memorabilia and displays to celebrate the lives of the local men and women who have real connections with the area, and have contributed so greatly to society.

Included within the 100 inductees are ‘Father of Television’ John Logie Baird, Hollywood stars Deborah Kerr and Jack Buchanan, authors WH Auden and Neil Munro and members of the Glasgow Boys and Girls Arts movement.

The Centre's Design

Art Deco was conceived as a tribute to the man-made world and captured perfectly the mood of hope and optimism that followed the Great War. There was a sense of excitement and expectancy in the air, a time of anticipating a future filled with promise. A pioneering spirit was liberated.

Science and technology were rapidly improving the quality of life. This was the age of radio, television and the movies. And the men and women of Helensburgh were at its very heart.
The £1.75 million regeneration of an old warehouse building into a new multipurpose community arts and entertainment complex will capture that feeling of new beginnings for the community. In addition to the aspirational benefits that the Heroes Centre will bring to the area, it will also provide a much needed economic boost.

All of us are, during our lifetime, custodians of an incomparable, irreplaceable, cultural history, and we should consider its stewardship one of our foremost obligations and pleasures. It was this fusion of history and modernity that gave Art Deco its unique character, and some eighty years later this will be revived in Helensburgh’s Heroes Centre.

For further details please download the overview document below