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Fine food to the doorstep: It’s 7am and a small team are busy packing food crates and boxes with fresh fruit and veg. You would think the group loading the van are market traders getting ready for the day.
But appearances can deceive. This group is mostly volunteers, and as the van pulls away from the Aberdeen city centre warehouse there’s a sense of satisfaction as they know once again this delivery will end up with those who need it most.
Credit where it’s due: It’s often said that young people don’t understand the value of money. They are saddled with the blame for ?1.3 trillion of debt currently accumulated in the UK. However, four Glasgow high school students are bucking the trend by running their very own Credit Union for fellow pupils. Thanks to their hard work they are changing the way in which young people think about and handle money.
Every Monday morning at 10.30am Classroom 79 in Lochend Community High School, Easterhouse is buzzing as young people queue up to hand over their money. But these young people aren’t exchanging money for a morning snack but handing over their cash to be saved for a rainy day.
They may be only 16 but Danielle Kerr, Thomas Sneddon, Jordan McGlinchey and Laura Rankin are members of a unique club – helping others to put away money for when they need it.
Material girls: Emma Halliday is a bright and energetic 13-year-old with a passion for fashion. But instead of picking up all her clobber from the high street like most of her friends, every Wednesday night for the past two years she has been learning how to create it herself.
Now the budding fashionista has set her sights on a career cutting cloth and it’s all thanks to the lessons she’s learned at The Studio in Partick.
”I always was really interested in clothes but, until I came here, had never even used a sewing machine before, never mind thought about how I could design my own,” she laughs.
A dab hand in the studio Emma now makes all sorts of clothes from scratch including t-shirts, trousers, dresses and even pyjamas. As well as cutting and stitching she’s also learnt different kinds of techniques from tie dying and screen printing to ensure her creations are one of a kind.
Gorbals goes green: If you ask Moyra Lindsay or Anne Marie Graham about their work they’ll tell you they are just a couple of ordinary working mums. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Armed with a supermarket trolley and a desire to save the planet this unassuming pair are breathing life into an once deprived area by proving the old adage – where there’s muck there’s brass – is true.
Since they began Gorbals Recycles four years ago the pair have turned over every stone to seek out funding to help them in their mission. Now with the help of a £320,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund they are making sure that Lottery funding is really making a difference in a once notorious inner city Glasgow area.
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