January 2025

Glasgow has been awarded £5million research funding over the next five years to help improve the lives of citizens and tackle health inequalities.

Staff at the newly opened safer drug consumption facility in Glasgow have been praised following an encouraging first week.

A pop-up mobility hub that makes it easier for people to walk, wheel and cycle for local journeys has found its latest home in Kinning Park.

Glasgow City Council has officially launched its Glasgow 850 programme for 2025, a spectacular year-long celebration marking 850 years since the city gained Burgh status, in 1175, a pivotal moment that shaped the vibrant and unique city we know today.

Local organisations in Glasgow are being encouraged to apply for support from a new fund designed to increase public participation in cycling and wheeled urban sports such as skateboarding, roller skating and scootering.

The UK's first safer drug consumption facility opens in Glasgow on Monday, 13 January.

A retrofit summit in Glasgow a month from now will look at the work taking place to retrofit homes at individual, community and at-scale levels, with an emphasis on the needs, perspectives and objectives of local projects in Glasgow and the city-region and current themes, policies and practices in the sector.

Work on a key project on the fringes of Glasgow city centre - the Avenues Plus scheme on Duke Street and John Knox Street - has now begun.