An organisation that makes loans to people and businesses who struggle to secure credit from banks has been awarded almost £1m in lottery funding. Glasgow-based Scotcash provides loans from just £50 based on a person’s current circumstances and not their credit history. It will use the £963,685 lottery grant to expand a financial inclusion scheme. This will allow loans to be made to more...
A Christmas market and lights switch-on in Glasgow have both been scrapped. Organisers of the George Square market, Market Place Europe, said they could not reach a “mutually agreeable” plan with Glasgow Life to host the event. The event was also cancelled last year due to Covid-19 – however a market at St Enoch Square will still take place. Meanwhile Glasgow Life said it was...
A number of roads in Glasgow will be closed to traffic when the city hosts the UN climate change conference COP26 in November. The event, at the city’s Scottish Events Campus, was postponed last November because of the Covid pandemic. Organisers said the closures were necessary to facilitate the event, which it is hoped will attract leading figures from around the world. Among the affected...
Glasgow arts venue SWG3 has switched on a system that creates renewable energy from the body heat on its dancefloor. Dancers’ heat is piped via a carrier fluid to 200m (650ft) bore holes that can be charged like a thermal battery. The energy then travels back to the heat pumps, is upgraded to a suitable temperature and emitted back into SWG3. The owners say this will enable them to...