September 2020 – Director’s Blog We have two immediate priorities at Glasgow City Region, both equally as pressing. The first is to re-set our City Deal infrastructure programme in light of recent delays and the changes that need to be implemented as a result of Covid-19. And secondly, we are…
Glasgow City Region’s Plans for Economic Recovery
Councillors have today (6 August 2020) approved an award of up to £10m City Deal funding to Transport Scotland, for the planned refurbishment of High Street train station. The funding, part of £27m committed to the Collegelands, Calton Barras City Deal project, will be used to meet the cost of…
June 2020 – Director’s Blog Recent events have been unprecedented. But I wanted to update you on some recent positive developments at the City Region and also on work underway to help to rebuild our economy. Firstly, you’ll be aware of the new group established for the city, the Glasgow…
Gateway Review milestone success unlocks £250 million City Deal funding Glasgow City Region today announced a £250 million funding boost for vital infrastructure work which will help kick start the Region’s post Covid-19 economic recovery and play a key part in supporting thousands of jobs and businesses across the Region.…
Forty pupils from across Glasgow City Region Schools attended an event at the University of Strathclyde to learn about Economics, how it is applied in a practical context and the type of jobs available from studying it. The event, held at the beginning of March, was hosted by a team…
Tontine based tech enterprise Nudge Exchange, are delighted to be one of only eight young businesses to have secured a place on the TechX Accelerator Programme at the Oil & Gas Technology Centre in Aberdeen – a partnership with Equinor, BP and KPMG that invests in and supports those start-ups…
Two Glasgow City Region City Deal projects designed to better manage rainwater across Penilee and Cardonald are due to start work in the coming weeks. These vital projects will reduce the negative economic and social impact of flooding to homes, businesses and transport links, as well as improving greenspace and…
Tontine based entrepreneur and Glasgow University alumni Dr Carla Brown, is celebrating her latest success after being shortlisted as a finalist in the Everywoman UK Tech Awards in their Entrepreneur category for her innovative work in technology within the health sector. Founder of Game Doctor, which was launched in 2016;…
An update on Skills and Employment from Councillor Ross, Leader of South Lanarkshire Council and Chair of the Glasgow City Region Skills and Employment Portfolio At last week’s Glasgow City Region Cabinet I was delighted to provide an update on work underway across the Region to support Skills and Employment…
February 2020 – Director’s Blog It’s been another busy month at Glasgow City Region. We had the Gateway Review Challenge session recently with our government partners – an opportunity to discuss our submission, review how the partnership is working and to look towards the next five years. I’m pleased to…